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Highlander Courtesy of Amazon Studios “One Night in Miami” is based on a real event that focuses on the night of Muhammad Ali’s — then named Cassius Clay — famous win against Sonny Liston on Feb. 25, 1964. Ali (Eli Goree) and his history-making friends, Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir), Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge) and Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr.), meet up that legendary night in a hotel room of the Hampton House.  The film was originally based on a play with the same exa...

Post Views: 2,822 General cargo ship VELA I ran aground, or probably, drifted aground, in Lefkada Bay, Lefkada island, Ionian sea, Greece, in the morning Jan 25. The ship loaded with stone was en route from Itea, Gulf of Corinth, to Malta. For reasons unknown, she diverted to Lefkada, maybe to wait out weather, or fix a problem, and it seems, later drifted aground. General cargo ship VELA I, IMO 8104539, dwt 2890, built 1982, flag Moldova, manager IRGER SHPK, Albania.

Highlander Ryan Poon/ Highlander The storming of the Capitol by radical Trump supporters 一 or, more accurately, domestic terrorists 一  seemed like something from a nightmare. With every shattering of a window, it felt as if more holes were being poked into the fabric of our democracy. And yet, this complete disaster revealed the obvious differences in police treatment towards Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters, who fought for a noble cause, and white supremacists who were trying to de...

Highlander Courtesy of Lizette Inzunza via Lobby Corps The Associated Students of UC Riverside (ASUCR) is composed of many different branches, committees and individuals that help the student government serve the campus population. One of the largest committees is Lobby Corps, which functions under the ASUCR Office of External Affairs; it is 1 of 4 committees that is overseen by the vice president of external affairs and focuses on community organizing and outreach to public officials in th...

Highlander Ryan Poon/ The Highlander As of Jan. 11, the University of California (UC) President Michael V. Drake and the rest of the UC announced that all campuses will reopen by fall 2021. While this came as a pleasant surprise to all students and faculty, there was no clear presentation on how the UC plans to navigate toward such a goal, considering the slow distribution of vaccinations. It seems as if the UC is tired of being in a financial bind and are heavily depending on how the Biden...

Highlander Adriana Angel /The Highlander During my childhood, I often gazed upon the night sky and stared in awe at the moon that was seemingly following me. After grasping the concept of distance and sadly realizing the moon was not following me, I still looked up at the moon to admire its beauty. Ever since, I wished I could witness it up close, and on Jan. 21, I was finally able to bear witness to the moon in all its glory — albeit virtually.  The Department of Physics and Astronomy, ...

Highlander Lloyd Kao /The Highlander On Thursday, Jan. 21, UCR ARTS hosted their first Third Thursday Talk of the year. This live virtual event featured talented artists who discussed their insights on their work for “Art in the Plague Year,” a virtual exhibition featuring pieces from over 600 artists worldwide. The event started at 6 p.m. It was held on Zoom but was also live streamed on the UCR ARTSblock’s Facebook account. Douglas McCulloh, a photographer and one of the curators fo...

Highlander Courtesy of Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA-2.0 When Kamala Harris’ Vogue photoshoot covers were revealed, people were outraged for a number of reasons: the choice of clothes, background colors and even the unflattering lighting. One of the greatest issues this cover poses, however, is that it seems to glorify Harris as a celebrity icon. Indeed, the clashing pink and green cover has a blurb that says “The United States of Fashion,” which makes se...

Disney has managed to tug at the public’s — that is, the public that can offer to pay for their monthly $6.99 streaming subscription — heartstrings yet again, this time with the release of the movie “Soul.” Although the Pixar flick is a refreshing change from all of the live action movies and sequels that […]

Highlander Post Views: 1,189 Nobody expected two novice TV writers to take the world by a storm of swords in 2011 when a little upstart TV series on a premium network slowly transformed into a worldwide cultural phenomenon. The pilot episode of “Game of Thrones” received a measly 2.22 million viewers. By season eight, as the series was wrapping up, 23 million Americans were tuning in to see Daenerys’ final climactic battle with Queen Cersei.  While showrunners D.B. Wei...