Digital + Portrait + Studio

Saturday and Sunday, Feb 2-3 were official dress-up days in downtown Riverside. First, the annual Dickens Festival along Mission Inn Avenue encouraged participants to role-play in full 19th century period ware -- then take part in short plays and re-creations. A tent with backdrop for portrait sittings was hosted by UCR Artsblock and Riverside Public Library along Oliver's Alley. While Sunday's Dickens event was rained out, UCR/CMP planned ahead for 1st Sunday Family Fun Day and invited Santa Barbara photographer Bob Debris to snap pix in the style of his current show at the museum, Trans-Personae. Think boas and glitter!

About Town

Gabriela Jauregui is a woman about town these days.  Well, maybe not about Riverside, as she spent most of the summer in Mexico City completing a book of poetry, CONTROLLED DECAY to be published in June 2008.  Rather than being here in-studio at CMP recording the next KCET.org hosted ARTSblock Live! monthly podcast, which Gaby happens to co-produce and moderate, the creative writing grad student is away gaining inspiration in Deutschland. The only way to catch up with her is online, as in her recent Bomb Online interview with novelist Daniel Alarcon about LOST CITY RADIO. We will just have to wait I guess. You can check out past ARTSblock Live podcasts featuring Rickerby Hinds, Nicole Entebi, Juan Felipe Herrera, Chris Metzler, Ky-Phong Tran, Chris Abani, Alex Espinoza, Paulo Chagas, and Susan Straight -- until sista' returns.