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Bux — visit before it’s gone
Vincent Ta/Highlander Bux — a curious name for a bookstore. Its pronunciation is a cross between “books” and “bucks,” and with the store material’s cheap prices, its tongue-in-cheek nature seems...
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Downtowne Bookstore: Americana Area Steeped In History
Janine Ybanez/Highlander Building culture is a series in the Arts & Entertainment section dedicated to examining different buildings around the area and their important history and roles in our...
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Building Culture: Creating art from the discarded
Matt Hong/Highlander “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” — Proverb Or, as Stephanie Sanchez and Kimberly “Kim” Sanchez put it, one man’s trash allows for their father, Martin Sanchez, to be a...
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To Recall the Past: Connecting History through Photography
Janine Ybanez/ Highlander In the basement of the California Museum of Photography, down a spiraling metal staircase, is the current exhibition titled “Recollection,” which artists have created with the...
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Building Culture: Lot 30
“Day upon day, and year upon year, O city, walking your streets, / where you hold me enchain’d a certain time, refusing to give me up; / yet giving to make me glutted, enrich’d of soul …” – Walt...
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UCR ARTSblock offers alternative to weekend blockbusters
Courtesy of Aurora Guerrero Famed Swedish auteur Ingmar Bergman famously stated, “Film has dream, film has music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our...
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UCR Arts Walk embellishes the Bell Tower with scintillating student art
Jeffrey Chang/HIGHLANDER The Bell Tower had never been more colorful than it was at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, May 10. There were students with backpacks on, older people, many people with shaved and colored...
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New art exhibit questions the consequences of institutional incarceration
Members of the Riverside community read and examine the states of incarceration exhibits. Jaspery Goh/HIGHLANDER The California Museum of Photography at the UCR ARTSblock hosted an opening reception...
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The Blood-Jet Writing Hour
Courtesy of The Conversant The “Blood-Jet Writing Hour” is an online radio show produced and hosted by UCR alumna Rachelle Cruz. During the show, Cruz interviews various poets to gain insight on their...
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Latino/a Play Project’s unique mission
Courtesy of UCR Earlier this week, I sat down with Melanie Queponds, the creative director of the Latino/a Play Project and a fifth-year theater and English double major here at UCR, to discuss the...
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Phyllis Gill gallery: an unexpected legacy
Jimmy Lai/ Highlander Riverside is known as “the city of arts and innovation,” and at UCR we do a lot to uphold this reputation. From the Culver Center of the Arts in downtown Riverside to the...
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Fall Style Tips from CLASS and Fashion
Courtesy of Class and Fashion After the long summer, fall is here and winter is steadily approaching. Which means your shorts need to be swapped out for jeans and your jackets, dusted. If you are not...
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Artist: Ka A cross between Earl Sweatshirt and Ghostface Killah, Ka is a Brooklyn-based FDNY Captain turned rapper who’s been on the scene since the ‘90s, starting out with the underground hip-hop...
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Cellar Door Books provides a home for writers and readers alike
Faraz Rizvi/ HIGHLANDER Right off Canyon Crest, tucked away in a corner of a small shopping center, across from a bubbling water fountain and a series of lattice gazebos with greenery sprouting all...
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Under the RADAR: Issue 07
Artist: Solmaz Sharif Courtesy of Graywolf Press Iranian-American poet Solmaz Sharif’s debut volume of poems, “LOOK” is among the prestigious finalists for the American Book Award. These poems are...
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“The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” is C-H-A-R-M-I-N-G to its core
Thomas Holguin/ HIGHALNDER You might remember your typical spelling bee competitions from elementary school. You would stand up in front of a microphone, be given a word and then you would have to...
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Trauma, Loss, Transcendance: In conversation with Professor Paulo C. Chagas
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons December 2, 2015 is a date practically ingrained in the minds of any Inland Empire resident. On that date, tragedy befell when two individuals named Syed Farook and...
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Fashion Forward for 2017
Courtesy of Vetements Every year creates a new possibility, with trends falling out of style, or certain styles coming back in. Last year was the year streetwear hit its stride in terms of market...
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As 2017 opens before us, and the potential for so many new possibilities begin, we here at Radar wanted to highlight some of the projects we are excited about in the upcoming year. From new gaming...
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Under The Radar: Issue 13
“The Handmaiden” Courtesy of CJ Entertainment From the critically acclaimed director of “Oldboy” comes “The Handmaiden” — a story of love and deceit set in Japanese-occupied Korea. Based on the novel...
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