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10/30/2026

Patricia Scarborough can make the prospect of a human meat pie sound like an entirely reasonable business decision. As Mrs. Lovett in Riverside Community Players’ “Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” she brings a delightful sense of humor to some very dark material. Paired with Aaron Pyle’s increasingly bloodthirsty barber, she helps make Fleet Street a place where laughter comes with an uncomfortable aftertaste.

Read the review. See the photos.

📍: Riverside Communty Players
🎭: Riverside Communty Players
📸: Shutter Bear Photography

10/11/2026

Deterioration could be heard a block away from the Riverside Municipal Auditorium, where I had parked, on Friday, Oct. 9. Inside, a small mosh pit was already moving, fans were lining up for merchandise downstairs, and the evening’s five-band bill was just getting started.

By the time Dying Fetus took the stage at 10:10pm, crowd-surfers were dropping into the photo pit before the second song even began.

Headlined by Dying Fetus and Sanguisugabogg, with special guests Crowbar, Left to Suffer and Deterioration rounding out the bill, the show brought together fans for an evening of heavy music, flying hair and bodies held above the crowd. Along the way, the bands made a point of saying who belonged there: everyone.

Read the review. See the photos.

📍: Riverside Municipal Auditorium
🎸: DYING FETUS | Sanguisugabogg | Crowbar Rules! | Left to Suffer | Deterioration
📸: Shutter Bear Photography

10/09/2026

The wonderful, whimsical world of Dr. Seuss has taken over The Box Theatre in downtown Riverside, where Act Out Enrichment is bringing some of literature’s most beloved characters to life in two youth productions of Seussical. With the final weekend approaching, Riverside audiences have one last opportunity to step into a world where elephants hatch eggs, tiny people live on specks of dust, and a mischievous cat reminds everyone that imagination has no limits.

Find out more at our website. Link in bio.

Special thanks to Riverside Senior Portrait Photographer for providing the amazing photos ..

📍: The Box Riverside
🎭: Act Out Enrichment
📸: Riverside Senior Portrait Photographer

10/06/2026

Broadway songs, bold choices and a little bravery. Scott Barnhardt joined RCC’s musical theater students for an afternoon celebrating the joy of performing and the next generation finding their place onstage. We also caught a familiar face from local youth theater taking that next step.

Read the review. See the photos. Link in Bio.

📍: Riverside City College
🎭: rcctheatrearts | Scott Barnhardt
📸: Shutter Bear Photography

09/26/2026

The crowd at Riverside Municipal Auditorium came ready to sing Thursday night. Before The Front Bottoms even reached the stage, fans were joining in with the Cranberries’ “Linger” over the house speakers between sets. By the time the headliners appeared, the audience had packed in, carrying that enthusiasm into the songs they had come to hear.

The New Jersey band brought its “11 Years of Back On Top” tour to Riverside on Sept. 24, with rapper GDP and Cincinnati rock band Foxy Shazam rounding out a bill that offered three distinctly different approaches to working a crowd.

Read the review. See the photos.

📍: Riverside Municipal Auditorium
🎸: TFB | Foxy Shazam | GDP
📸: Shutter Bear Photography

09/20/2026

Tomorrow, at the Menagerie, an iconic Drag Queen in the Southern California Drag scene, Cassi Philips will get roasted for their 60th birthday!

Today we invite you to get to know the man behind Cassi Philips, Philip Bailey!

I had the pleasure of sitting with Philip and discussing his amazing drag career and what he has planned next!

Read the full article, and see a gallery of photos spanning Philip’s fabulous career, link in the bio.

💅🏻: Philip Bailey
📍: The Menagerie
📸: Shutter Bear Photography & some courtesy of Philip

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09/16/2026

The Southern California punk community is rallying behind T.S.O.L.’s Mike Roche as his health continues to decline following dual Parkinson’s disease and dementia diagnoses. The Offspring, Pennywise, Circle Jerks, Adolescents, Guttermouth, Change Today, Mainliners, Death By Stereo, Love Canal, and Dissension perform at a Nov. 7 benefit at the Garden Amphitheatre in support of one of punk’s most beloved musicians.

Tickets go on-sale this Friday, Sept. 18, at 9 a.m. pacific via Gardenamp.com. For those unable to attend, a GoFundMe is active: https://gofund.me/8e607380b.

09/13/2026

KK’s Priest returned to the Fox Performing Arts Center Saturday night and gave Riverside one hell of a heavy metal show. KK Downing, Tim “Ripper” Owens and crew brought the noise, and the packed Fox gave it right back.

Special guests for the W.A.S.P. 1984 to Headless tour, the fans at the Fox Theatre were treated to stage presence and spectacle and a whole lot of loud heavy metal 🤘

Read the review. See the photos. Links in bio.

🎸: KK’s Priest | WASP Nation Official
📍: Fox Theater - Riverside
📸: Shutter Bear Photography

09/04/2026

There are dysfunctional workplaces, and then there is the writer’s room on the 23rd floor...

Riverside Community Players kicks off its 102nd season with Neil Simon’s Laughter on the 23rd Floor, a fast-movie comedy filled with huge personalities, with even bigger egos that bruise easily, creative disagreements, and enough insults to bury the average human resources department in a mountain of paperwork. Under the direction of Toni Lynd, all that chaos comes together as something surprisingly heartwarming. The people may drive each other completely insane, but somewhere between the arguments, jokes, and rapid-fire one-liners, they have become a family.

Read the review. See the photos. Links in bio.

🎭: Riverside Communty Players
📍: Riverside Communty Players
📸: Shutter Bear Photography

07/17/2026

There are few musicals as recognizable as Footloose. Nearly everyone knows the title song, and even those who have never seen the stage production are familiar with the story of a small town where dancing has been banned. It would be easy for a production to lean entirely on that nostalgia, letting the familiar music carry the evening. Fortunately, Riverside City College’s latest production understands that while the songs may bring audiences through the doors, it is the relationships between the characters that have kept Footloose relevant for more than four decades.

Read the Review. See the photos. Links in bio.

📍: Riverside City College
🎭: rcctheatrearts
📸: Shutter Bear Photography

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