🍊 Wednesday Gazette: October 23, 2024

Wednesday Gazette: October 23, 2024

Hello Riverside, and Happy Wednesday! A few quick notes from The Gazette team:

1. Tonight is our first-ever Eat This, Riverside! field trip to Greedy Cat. A group of 10 has RSVP'd to join Seth, and we can accommodate just a few more if you email seth@raincrossgazette.com by 2 p.m. today.
2. The City is hosting Future Fest tomorrow from 4 to 8 p.m. in front of Regal Theater Riverside Plaza; stop by to meet Ken and share your thoughts on Riverside's future.
3. We're creating a guide that offers a driving tour of the best decorated homes for the spooky season. If you or a neighbor have an incredible Halloween display, snap a pic today and send it with an address to ken@raincrossgazette.com.
4. Next Monday, we'll publish a series of interviews with the school board candidates on your November ballots. If you are confident in your vote for Measure CC or Measure L and want to share your reasoning with other Riversiders, please email justin@raincrossgazette.com by Thursday at 2 p.m.

That's all for now, we'll see you on Friday!

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Local Artist Ada M. Passaro Turns 100!

There are a few days left to visit her solo exhibition at the RCAA Gallery.

Ada M. Passaro is 100 years old today. She will be spending the day with her nephew, visiting art galleries in Santa Ana, and having a birthday meal at Le Chat Noir. If you would like to celebrate Ada, visit the RCAA Gallery on Lemon. Take a look at, and maybe even buy, one of her incredible pastel landscapes. Ada's exhibition closes on October 26th, so you only have a few days.

Ada is a local treasure. She took up pastels at age 80 and has become quite accomplished over the last two decades. I talked with Ada about the magic of places. She has a unique ability to capture that magic. Her work depicting scenes along Highway 395 is fantastic.

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HIGHER EDUCATION

"There's Always Room at the Table": A Conversation with La Sierra University's First Black President Dr. Christon Arthur

Three months into his new, historic appointment, the president of La Sierra University looks back on his career trajectory and the role service plays in both his personal and professional leadership.

"There's a place for you." This is the mantra Dr. Arthur has carried with himself throughout his journey. It's also the phrase he echoes to the approximately 1,600 students who make up the small but vibrant community at La Sierra University. He shared this with me during a recent Zoom interview. As the institution's first Black president, Arthur, who spent the past three decades of his illustrious career as an educational leader, is looking to widen the school's access and visibility of his students. "I want to expand La Sierra to make it accessible to everyone and then provide the resources to meet their needs to equip them for success," he said with a wide grin.

He is only the sixth president since the university was formally established in 1980. However, Arthur knows a thing or two about coming in sixth place — he's the last of six siblings, after all. But it's also what highlights his distinctiveness. Arthur became the first in his family to pursue higher education and earn a postgraduate degree. As a first-generation native of Grenada, a small Eastern Caribbean island, his accomplishments became the blueprint of what his siblings, including his mother, who was denied going to school for being a woman, had long dreamed of.

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What's Happening in Riverside

Today

• Community Police Review Commission at Riverside City Hall
• Enrique Granados “Los majos enamorados” (The Young lovers): Florence Bayz Music Series at UCR
• Exhibit: First in the Nation—A History of the Costo Library at UCR
• Exhibit: Political Campaign Buttons at UCR
• Exhibit: Unexpected Artifacts at UCR
• Family Storytime at Casa Blanca Library
• Free Reading Assistance at My Learning Studio OUTREACH
• Homegrown Heroes at Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern
• Inland Empire Immigration Forum at Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern
• Main Library| Family Storytime at Main Library 
• Movement for Life at Riverside Ballet Arts Studios (Platt College Building 1st Floor)
• Museum of Riverside Board at Riverside City Hall
• Open Mic Music Series at Back To The Grind 
• Puzzling Adventures Scavenger Hunt at Puzzling Adventures Start & Finish Location
• Riverside East Rotary Club at Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern
• The Senate: From Antiquity to Modern Times at Wednesday, October 23
• UCR Nature Walk at UCR Botanic Gardens

Tomorrow

• AFROBEATS DANCEHALL REGGAE Night at The W at Worthington’s
• Youth Fall Science Olympics at UCR
• Aikido, Unlimited at Student Recreation Center (SRC), MPR D
• CHASS F1RST NTSW Presents UCTSC at the University of California, Riverside
• Cycle Burn at Student Recreation Center (SRC), SRC North - FitWell Studio
• Eat Well Series Workshop at the UCR
• Free GED Tutoring at My Learning Studio OUTREACH 
• Free Homework Help at My Learning Studio OUTREACH
• Free Math Tutoring (8th - Algebra 2) at My Learning Studio OUTREACH
• FutureFest at Riverside Plaza
• Human Relations Commission at Riverside City Hall
• Riverside Dark History Tour at Retro Taco
• THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW 49TH ANNIVERSARY SPECTACULAR TOUR at Fox Performing Arts Center
• Rocky Horror Picture Show with Live Cast at Fox Performing Arts Center
• Structural Racism Reading Group: Discuss and remember at UCR

Halloween Events

• October 25: GhostWalk: Nevermore at White Park
• October 25: Obake Night: Japanese ghost stories with Barbara Wong at Heritage House 
• October 25: Riverside Fright Night Halloween Bar Crawl at Killer Queens Social House
• October 25: RIVERSIDE HALLOWEEN BAR CRAWL at Downtown Riverside
• October 26: HALLOWEEN PARTY w/ Past Action Heroes - Hits from the ’80s & 90s! at The Concert Lounge
• October 26: The Official Halloween Bar Crawl at Lake Alice Trading Co.
• October 26: Official Riverside Halloween Bar Crawl at Killer Queens Social House
• October 26: Paws & Pumpkins at Mary S. Roberts Pet Adoption Center
• October 26: RIVERSIDE ZOMBIE CRAWL - Halloween Bar Crawl at Downtown Riverside
• October 26: Tea with the Undertaker at Heritage House 
• October 31: Kitty’s Halloween Rave at Riverside Municipal Auditorium
• October 31: Mismiths & Halloween Costume Party at The Barn
• November 2: Emo Prom at The Hideaway Cafe & Lounge
• November 2&3: Riverside Day of the Dead at Market Street between 14th and Mission Inn

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