> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.raincrossgazette.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # 🗞️ Riverside News- March 22, 2026 - URL: https://www.raincrossgazette.com/riverside-news-march-15-2026-2/ - Published: 2026-03-22T12:00:45.000Z - Updated: 2026-08-09T02:14:55.000Z - Description: Mikey G's has a home, MLK High student featured neighbor, a "hair-raising" prompt... - Author: Gazette Staff - Tags: Newsletter ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/b3/b2/b3b29e3b-298e-485f-86ca-3034c21e3784/content/images/2026/03/IMG_9655-1.jpeg) Oranges ripen on the branch as a Hawarden Hills sunset paints the sky — a scene that's defined Riverside since the days when citrus groves stretched across the hillsides. (Rosalyn Anderson) Have a photo that captures the spirit of Riverside? [Share it with us](https://goldstandardca.notion.site/13eef165d2ee80fa91c3de069cc9ec29?ref=raincrossgazette.com) and help celebrate the beauty of our community! **Sunday Gazette: March 22, 2026** **Hello Riverside, and Happy Sunday!** We have a winner to celebrate. Congratulations to **Rosalyn Anderson**, whose photo entry won two tickets to see Hadestown at the Fox Performing Arts Center on April 13\. Rosalyn is a familiar presence in our community and a longtime supporter of the Gazette, and her photos have a way of capturing what makes this city beautiful: golden sunsets, sweeping views, and some of the most perfectly ripe oranges you'll ever see. Thank you to everyone who submitted a photo. Your images are the first thing readers see each morning, and we're grateful for it. Keep them coming! --- 🧡 Thank you to the Subscribers who became paid supporters this week: Marco McGuire. [Your ongoing financial support](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/riverside-news-november-16-2025-2/#/portal/account/plans) is vital to our success in serving Riverside with the news it deserves! --- Advertisement ([Become an advertiser](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/advertise/)) [![Advertisement](https://ad.broadstreetads.com/zone_static/169513/image/0?seed=20260322)](https://ad.broadstreetads.com/zone%5Fstatic/169513/click/0?seed=20260322&ref=raincrossgazette.com) --- #### [BUSINESS](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/tag/business/) ## Mikey G's Finally Has a Home, and It Was Worth the Wait Geoff Gouveia, Jake Driscoll and Steven Burgos finally open the doors on their long-awaited Midtown coffee and bagel shop. [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/b3/b2/b3b29e3b-298e-485f-86ca-3034c21e3784/content/images/2026/03/RG-Feat-Image-Template-4-1.jpg)](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/mikey-gs-finally-has-a-home-and-it-was-worth-the-wait/) The front door at 3780 Elizabeth St. in Midtown, next to the "See You Soon — Mikey G" mural that greeted Riverside residents during the long wait for opening day. Photo courtesy Mikey G's. (Courtesy of Mikey G's) After two years of permits, pivots and pop-ups, Mikey G's specialty coffee and bagel shop opens its first permanent home in Midtown this weekend. **Why it matters:** The Elizabeth Street corridor has been drawing new energy, and Mikey G's is among the first permanent businesses to plant a flag — bringing specialty coffee, matcha and house-made NYC-style bagels to a neighborhood the city has its own revitalization plans for. **Driving the news:** The shop soft-opens Monday, March 23, at 3780 Elizabeth St., with tentative hours of 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. The official grand opening follows April 18. **The backstory:** Co-owners Geoff Gouveia, Jake Driscoll, Steven Burgos and their team built a following through pop-ups and a residency at Harvest Church on Arlington Avenue before signing their lease in January 2024. - The two-year road to opening ran through permitting snags Gouveia attributes entirely to himself: "The fault was my own — I learned so many ways how not to do something." **What's on the menu:** Specialty espresso drinks, matcha, and bagels from Parzel's — a bagel business the team acquired and folded into their operation. Every bagel is hand-rolled, boiled and baked daily after a 48-hour fermentation. **What's next:** Soft open begins March 23\. Follow Mikey G's on Instagram for daily hours updates. Grand opening is April 18. [Read and share the complete story...](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/mikey-gs-finally-has-a-home-and-it-was-worth-the-wait/) --- Advertisement ([Become an advertiser](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/advertise/)) [![Advertisement](https://ad.broadstreetads.com/zone_static/169515/image/0?seed=20260322)](https://ad.broadstreetads.com/zone%5Fstatic/169515/click/0?seed=20260322&ref=raincrossgazette.com) --- #### [NEIGHBOR OF THE WEEK](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/tag/neighbor-of-the-week/) ## Neighbor of the Week: Erik Chen Neighbor of the Week is a series profiling the hidden heroes of Riverside, doing incredible works of service throughout our different neighborhoods. [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/b3/b2/b3b29e3b-298e-485f-86ca-3034c21e3784/content/images/2026/03/1Z7A7708-1.jpg)](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/neighbor-of-the-week-erik-chen/) Erik Chen outside Martin Luther King High School, where he serves as Editor-in-Chief of the **King Courier*. (Brenda Flowers) Erik Chen has called Riverside home since 2016, and at just high school age, he is already giving back to it in ways that would impress most adults. A student at Martin Luther King High School, Erik serves as Editor-in-Chief of the school newspaper, the *King Courier*, President of the Speech and Debate team, and a member of the Science Olympiad Varsity team. Outside school, he sits on the Riverside Youth Council — and he recently launched an initiative where he and a small group of friends, a vocalist, a violinist, and a pianist, perform classical and pop music at local nursing homes. Follow their performances on Instagram at [@bachinmyday\_](https://www.instagram.com/bachinmyday%5F/?ref=raincrossgazette.com). Readers of the Raincross Gazette may already know Erik's byline. As one of our high school writers, he has covered Riverside with a range and maturity that would impress journalists twice his age — from City Hall civic tours and the city's new AI assistant, to his own school's take on the statewide cell phone ban, neighborhood wishlist for the vacant Woodcrest Rite Aid, a profile of MLK grad Joseph Or's journey to Yale, and a look at the future of driverless transportation. In every story, he finds the human thread that makes Riverside feel like a community worth paying attention to. [Get to know Erik...](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/neighbor-of-the-week-erik-chen/) --- Advertisement ([Become an advertiser](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/advertise/)) [ ![Advertisement](https://ad.broadstreetads.com/zone_static/169514/image/0?seed=20260322) ](https://ad.broadstreetads.com/zone%5Fstatic/169514/click/0?seed=20260322&ref=raincrossgazette.com) --- #### [CREATIVE PROMPTS](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/tag/creative-prompts/) ## Channel Z A prompt to encourage your practice of creativity this week from Riversider and local author Larry Burns. [![woman in black crew neck shirt](https://storage.ghost.io/c/b3/b2/b3b29e3b-298e-485f-86ca-3034c21e3784/content/images/2026/03/photo-1579809011969-0789e10b978b-2.jpeg)](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/channel-z/) ([Ilona Panych](https://unsplash.com/@we%5Fare%5Fdetails?ref=raincrossgazette.com) / [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/?utm%5Fsource=ghost&utm%5Fmedium=referral&utm%5Fcampaign=api-credit)) This week’s creative nudge is a little less visible, a little more surprising, and just a bit shocking: static electricity. You already know where to find it. It’s waiting in your dryer, making your socks extra friendly. It’s lurking in the moment just before your fingertip meets a doorknob. Static electricity is one of those everyday phenomena that lives just below our awareness…until it does not. Until it jumps into existence and reminds us that something unseen has been there all along. There’s something delightful about that moment of surprise. It’s harmless but it still makes us jump. That tiny jolt reveals a deeper truth: we are wired for reaction. Our bodies don’t wait for a full explanation before responding. We flinch first, ask questions later. Static electricity exposes a hidden layer of both the world and ourselves—reminders that not everything we experience is predictable or entirely under our control. [Read and share this week's full Creative Prompt...](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/channel-z/) --- 📣 ****See something? Say something.** Your tips and ideas are what fuel The Raincross Gazette. If you know of something newsworthy happening in our city, please [share it with us](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/contact/). --- ## This Week in Riverside ### Sunday, March 22 - [**Savvy Chic Kids Spring Consignment Sale**](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/savvy-chic-kids-spring-consignment-sale/18172205/2026-03-22T09) at Mission Grove Shopping Center - [Prayers and Public Information Meeting](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/prayers-and-public-information-meeting/16726617/2026-03-22T11) at Riverside Baha'i Center - [Paint Party Fundraiser for The Mission Inn Foundation](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/paint-party-fundraiser-for-the-mission-inn-foundation/18335253/2026-03-22T14) at Mission Inn Foundation ($33.85) - [The Black Panther Party: Then and Now](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/the-black-panther-party-then-and-now/18315170/2026-03-22T15) at Online - [Riverside Reads Book Discussion](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/riverside-reads-book-discussion/18227219/2026-03-22T14) at Packinghouse Brewing Co. - [Sunday Experiment After Dark](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/sunday-experiment-after-dark/14528750/2026-03-22T21) at Downtown Experiment ### Monday, March 23 - [Volunteer Interest Hour](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/volunteer-interest-hour/18161070/2026-03-23T09) at Riverside Meals on Wheels - [Gabby's Dollhouse Live! Presented by Walmart](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/gabbys-dollhouse-live-presented-by-walmart/16978422/2026-03-23T17) at Fox Performing Arts Center - [**Sip with a Scientist**](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/sip-with-a-scientist/17942951/2026-03-23T17) at Bar Ni Modo ### Tuesday, March 24 - [MSRPAC's Monthly Community Cat Spay/Neuter Day](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/msrpacs-monthly-community-cat-spayneuter-day/17790235/2026-03-24T06) at Mary S. Roberts Pet Adoption Center's Spay-Neuter Clinic ($45) - [Lunchtime Jazz Concert Series](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/lunchtime-jazz-concert-series/18303070/2026-03-24T13) at Center for Social Justice and Civil Liberties - [Orange Terrace Library | Lego Club](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/orange-terrace-library-lego-club/18133187/2026-03-24T10) at Orange Terrace Library - [Karaoke Tuesday Competition at the Hideaway](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/karaoke-tuesday-competition-at-the-hideaway/18262381/2026-03-24T19) at The Hideaway ### Wednesday, March 25 - [Riverside East Rotary Club](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/riverside-east-rotary-club/13565436/2026-03-25T07) at Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern - [Stretch & Dance Class](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/stretch-dance-class/17541755/2026-03-25T09) at Janet Goeske Senior Center - [Bordwell Park Advisory Committee](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/bordwell-park-advisory-committee/16552261/2026-03-25T11) at Stratton Community Center - [History on the Rocks - Round Two! Presented by The Mission Inn Foundation](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/history-on-the-rocks-round-two-presented-by-the-mission-inn-foundation/18169146/2026-03-25T17) at Mission Inn Foundation ($60) - [Reading Assistance Program](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/reading-assistance-program/17973404/2026-03-25T15) at My Learning Studio - [Riverside Mission Belles](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/riverside-mission-belles/16691431/2026-03-25T09) at Victoria Presbyterian Church - [Riverside Open Mic Music Series](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/riverside-open-mic-music-series/15529475/2026-03-25T17) at Back to the Grind - [Sealed in Spring: Letters and Memory Necklaces](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/sealed-in-spring-letters-and-memory-necklaces/18167284/2026-03-25T16) at Marcy Library - [SSgt Salvador J. Lara Casa Blanca Library | Riverside Reads Book Discussion](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/ssgt-salvador-j-lara-casa-blanca-library-riverside-reads-book-discussion/18230833/2026-03-25T13) at SSgt Salvador J. Lara Casa Blanca Library ### Thursday, March 26 - [**She Built This City: Women and the Making of Riverside**](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/she-built-this-city-women-and-the-making-of-riverside/18309147/2026-03-26T18) at Riverside Main Library - [History on the Rocks! Presented by The Mission Inn Foundation](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/history-on-the-rocks-presented-by-the-mission-inn-foundation/18169143/2026-03-26T17) at Mission Inn Foundation Store ($60) ### Friday, March 27 - [Certified Farmers Market](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/new-certified-farmers-market-january-9-at-farm-house-collective/17808448/2026-03-27T10) at Farm House Collective - [Orange Terrace Library | Chess Club](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/orange-terrace-library-chess-club/17905401/2026-03-27T14) at Orange Terrace Library - [1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/1946-the-mistranslation-that-shifted-culture/18234442/2026-03-27T19) at Civil Rights Institute Inland Southern California - [Club 90's Presents Benito Bowl (18+)](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/club-90s-presents-benito-bowl-18/18245242/2026-03-27T20) at Riverside Municipal Auditorium - [LA ORIGINAL BANDA EL LIMÓN - 60 ANIVERSARIO](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/la-original-banda-el-limn-60-aniversario/17597130/2026-03-27T20) at Fox Performing Arts Center - [The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/the-mistranslation-that-shifted-culture/18242881/2026-03-27T19) at Civil Rights Institute Inland Southern California ### Saturday, March 28 - [**Goeske Spring Festival**](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/goeske-spring-festival/17846140/2026-03-28T10)at Janet Goeske Center - [**The 4th Annual Citrus Festival**](https://www.californiacitruspark.com/?ref=raincrossgazette.com) at California Citrus State Historic Park - [5th Anniversary Fundraiser "A Queen's Meeting"](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/5th-anniversary-fundraiser-a-queens-meeting/17554061/2026-03-28T10) at Victoria Club ($140.56) - [Blue Zones Project Riverside Tobacco Clean Up](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/blue-zones-project-riverside-tobacco-clean-up/18338452/2026-03-28T10) at Cesar Chavez Community Center - [Natural Building Workshops](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/natural-building-workshops/17491724/2026-03-28T09) at Land Use Learning Center - [Mt. Rubidoux Walking Tour](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/mt-rubidoux-walking-tour/17492780/2026-03-28T10) at Mt. Rubidoux Trailhead, a short walk from Ryan Bonaminio Park. ($21.20) - [Flower Crowns](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/flower-crowns/18168017/2026-03-28T15) at Marcy Library - [Fifth Anniversary Fundraiser "A Queen's Meeting"](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/fifth-anniversary-fundraiser-a-queens-meeting/17461271/2026-03-28T10)at Victoria Club - [The Garden](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/the-garden/18009454/2026-03-28T19) at Riverside Municipal Auditorium - [History of Section 14: Memory, Justice, and Community](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/history-of-section-14-memory-justice-and-community/18243030/2026-03-28T13) at Civil Rights Institute Inland Southern California - [Van Halen Tribute by The Atomic Punks!](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/van-halen-tribute-by-the-atomic-punks/18120559/2026-03-28T21) at The Concert Lounge - Romano's Mission Grove ($20.23) ## Save the Date - April 2: [Hays Press-Enterprise Lecture](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/hays-pressenterprise-lecture/18205365/2026-04-02T18) at University Theatre - April 5: [Easter Celebration](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/easter-celebration/18317726/2026-04-05T10) at First Congregational Church of Riverside - April 11: [Olivewood Cemetery Tour](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/olivewood-cemetery-tour/18153476/2026-04-11T10) at Olivewood Cemetery ($21.20) - April 12: [The Expeditions of Juan Bautista de Anza through Riverside County](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/the-expeditions-of-juan-bautista-de-anza-through-riverside-county/18308461/2026-04-12T13) at Riverside Medical Clinic Basement Meeting Room - April 17: [Frozen: The Broadway Musical](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/frozen-the-broadway-musical/18267129/2026-04-17T19) at Woodcrest Christian School Royals Pavilion ($15- $20) - April 18: [Fant-A-She’s](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/#/details/fantashes/18337803/2026-04-18T20) at Riverside Municipal Auditorium ($37- $97) 🗓️ [See More Events](https://www.raincrossgazette.com/calendar/)📝 [Submit Your Event](https://hub.cityspark.com/Event/Submission/Raincross?ref=raincrossgazette.com) --- 📸 [Submit a photo](http://raincrossgazette.com/submitphoto?ref=raincrossgazette.com) to be featured in our newsletters and social media accounts. 🏆 [Nominate a remarkable Riversider](https://rgnotw.paperform.co/?ref=raincrossgazette.com) as Neighbor of the Week.