Katerina Portela

1 week ago | kpbs.org | Jade Hindmon |Ashley Rusch |Julianna Domingo |Katerina Portela

S1: It's time for Midday Edition on KPBS. Today's arts and culture show takes us to a festival celebrating indigenous heritage. Then we'll tell you where you can find the best in Asian cinema , plus your weekend preview. I'm Jade Hindman with conversations that keep you informed , inspired , and make you think. You'll find art with a purpose at the Southern California Indigenous Culture and Art Festival. S2: It sends a message that our culture isn't fragile. It's powerful.

1 week ago | thedailyaztec.com | Katerina Portela

Out of every dramatic role in theater, there is arguably none more well-known or complex than Hamlet. As the character with the most lines out of any Shakespearean play, whose descent into madness and passionate soliloquies (“To be or not to be,” anyone?) have inspired countless pop culture references, the role is coveted for any actor. Or, in a recent student adaptation, actors.

2 weeks ago | thedailyaztec.com | Katerina Portela

From afar, the clouded sky above Petco Park seemed to glow as if a UFO hovered inside. Streams of differently colored light emerged into the darkening sky, creating a light show for all of downtown San Diego to see. “What the heck is going on?” a passerby said. “They got a rave going on in there?”It was no rave; it was the start of Rise Against and Papa Roach’s Rise of the Roach tour, a double performance of the two powerhouses of the early 90s and 2000s hardcore and numetal scene.

1 month ago | thedailyaztec.com | Katerina Portela

When YG brought out a Trump impersonator to the stage in Los Angeles on March 15, he wasn’t the first to use his stage to mock a president. In September of 1963, following the bombing of a church containing four young Black girls in Birmingham, Alabama, Nina Simone was outraged. She penned the song “Mississippi Goddam,” a song critical of American racial prejudice and supportive of the rising civil rights movement.

1 month ago | thedailyaztec.com | Katerina Portela

Rolling Loud California, the annual hip-hop festival hosted in Inglewood, announced its lineup on Jan. 2025 with three prominent headliners and a shortened two-day run time with a long-awaited album on the way. Day two headliner Playboi Carti hasn’t released a new album since 2020. The Atlanta rapper gathered a loyal following of fans following his debut album “Die Lit,” a breakthrough album characterized by his signature high-pitched vocals and reverb-heavy samples.