Life is getting "tweeter" by the minute for Riverside natives Matt and Amanda MacNaughton. Their new Santa Monica-based start-up company Culture Jam has taken off like a rocket and may ultimately change the face of music distribution.

The Food Network has stirred tyhe pot – along with interest – for reality shows that pit competitors against one another in a battle to win fame and fortune. But those who move in culinary circles know that a lot of hard work and dedication goes into crafting a chef's signature style and that rising to the top takes willpower and guts.

Two years ago, Erin Phillips gathered together her friends and colleagues to try to answer some pressing questions. Where were all of the young professionals in Riverside? And why weren’t they more involved in leadership roles in the city? Her inquiries resulted in the founding of The Pick Group, an organization devoted to building a network of young professionals who devote time to volunteering in the community.

Riverside’s Fox Theater has enjoyed a rich and varied history.
Built in the elegantly simple Mission Revival style, it opened in 1929 as Hollywood’s Golden Age was about to start. The movie palace screened the earliest Academy Award winners.
Vaudeville acts sang and danced on its stage.

Mary Parks, the Inland Empire bureau chief for KNBC/Channel 4, is an Emmy Award winning journalist who has been covering the two-county region since the early 1990s.
During her career — which includes stints in Florida, Indiana and her home state of Michigan — she has reported on space shuttle launches at Cape Canaveral, East Coast hurricanes, as well as Southern California earthquakes, wildfires and riots.

Greg Laurie wanted to be a cartoonist, but life had other plans.
The pastor at Harvest Christian Fellowship in riverside will soon be leading his 20th Harvest Crusade — a Christian evangelical event that may attract more than 120,000 people to angel Stadium in anaheim during its three-day run, aug. 14-16. and that brings up another dream of Laurie's.

At Sevilla, tasty tapas are only part of the journey.
Tapas. By definition, it comes from a Spanish word meaning cover or top.
Back in the days when gentlemen sat in taverns enjoying their sherry, they would use a piece of bread, cheese or ham to cover the glass to keep pesky flies out of the sweet drink.

Reggie Miller wasn’t supposed to play basketball.
He was born with a hip deformity and wore leg braces until he was 5. When he did star t playing sports, baseball was his game. It wasn’t until Miller attended Riverside Poly High School that he took up basketball — and a career was born.

When he was a teenager, C.G. Ryche remembers telling his family and friends what he wanted to do for a living: “I’m going to be a rock star, so deal with it!” Few took him seriously.