The Pixels in Pete's World

Chance favors the prepared, so I read somewhere. It’s definitely true especially when covering an event. In part 2 of my coverage of Riverside’s Artnival over the weekend, here are some tips.

Artnival, a concatenation of the words “Art” and “Carnival,” materialized as a family fun event in Riverside’s White Park this afternoon. For its debut, this event put together by Cosme Cordova owner of Division 9 Gallery, showed it’s not all gloom for the arts even in bad economic times. When budget woes force an austere [...]

The Lunar Festival for 2012 took place on January 28 in downtown Riverside, just like the previous year. This time though, we had gusty winds for most of the day. The crowds didn’t seem to mind as visitors arrived throughout the day. They didn’t even seem to mind the long queues for food.

Last year I only got to spend two hours at Riverside’s Lunar Festival. I missed a lot of acts and performances. The one I wanted to see were the Sumo wrestlers. This afternoon, try as I could, I couldn’t get through into the inner ring of people.