Imagine being face to face with artists you revere and having the opportunity to memorialize their artistry for all time. That was the experience that launched art photographer, Wayne Shimabukuro, on a unique trajectory that is celebrated in RAFFMA’s powerful exhibit, “Made in California: Art + Photographic Portraits of Artists by Shimabukuro,” now on display. The exhibit, which launched on October 5, at the Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art (RAFFMA) features close to 40 iconic California artists photographed by Shimabukuro in his trademark style. The artists are photographed with their work, or in some cases, their three-dimensional work is alongside their portrait in the … [Read more...] about RAFFMA: An insider’s look at California artists
Mission Inn Festival of Lights
For six weeks every holiday season the Riverside Mission Inn lights up the town with close to 5-million lights and decorations that create a fairyland-like atmosphere that is enjoyed by visitors from around the world. The celebration begins the day after Thanksgiving with the official Switch-On ceremony in the evening setting the downtown Riverside area aglow. The evening begins early at 4:30 p.m. and continues until midnight on Friday, Nov. 23rd, but to get a good space, you should be there early as parking fills up and the crowd gets dense. The Switch-On happens at 5:00 p.m. when the inn turns on the switch for all the lights and a fireworks display creates a spectacular … [Read more...] about Mission Inn Festival of Lights
The Real ID: the driver’s license you will need to fly
After 9/11, the Federal Government made the decision to implement a new all-encompassing form of identification in each state to streamline air travel throughout the United States. The Real ID, which will replace a regular California driver’s license, has slowly been implemented in the United States over the last 15 years even though the deadline with the federal government for full compliance for all 50 states is October 1, 2020. As of October of this year, 37 states and territories were compliant, 19 have been granted extensions and California just began offering this enhanced ID on January 22, 2018. According to KFI AM radio hosts, John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou of the John and … [Read more...] about The Real ID: the driver’s license you will need to fly
#ShowMeYourSlate campaign to expose deceptive political mailers
Oct. is the time of year when political advertising makes its way to voters by the bushel. Some political advertising is fairly transparent, however, slate mailers can be disturbingly deceptive. Slate mailers are any mailer recommending a “slate” of candidates and/or propositions for the purpose of influencing a voter recipient. Some mailers, like Election Digest and Educate Your Vote, actually solicit payments from campaigns to have their favored candidates and propositions listed on their slate, through a “pay-to-play” arrangement which is typically not apparent to voters. Dr. Thomas Corrigan, Assistant Professor of Mass Communication at California State University, San Bernardino … [Read more...] about #ShowMeYourSlate campaign to expose deceptive political mailers
Award-Winning Photojournalists Visit CSUSB
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The Deep Creep Beneath
Though the deep creep may sound like a horror film, it is quite the contrary. It describes a seismic discovery that shakes up current earthquake prediction models and impacts the lives of every person in the Southern California region. The deep creep constitutes the thousands of small earthquakes that occur 6 miles below us in the San Bernardino Basin. The deep creep was discussed in Newsweek last month as they reviewed a research study published in the Geophysical Research Letters. Researchers emphatically state scientists should not use information produced by small earthquakes near the San Andreas (SAf) and San Jacinto faults (SJF) to forecast major earthquakes. Scientists … [Read more...] about The Deep Creep Beneath
Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist takes the stage at CSUSB
On Oct. 9, award-winning photojournalists Nick Ut and Raul Roa shared their stories with California State University San Bernardino (CSUSB) faculty and students, in a conversational format on stage at the SMSU Theater. Nick Ut’s 1972 Pulitzer Prize winning photograph the “Terror of War,” (commonly referred to as the Napalm Girl) was a central focus of Ut’s talk which highlighted his 51 years as an Associated Press (AP) photographer. Ut, a Vietnam native, began his photojournalism career in 1965, just weeks after his beloved brother, Huynh Thanh My, also an AP photographer, was killed during combat photography. Ut’s photos capture the agony and horror of war, but none more poignantly … [Read more...] about Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist takes the stage at CSUSB