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Spiritdancer Donaldson performs the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, accompanied by the ARC Orchestra at the Family Holiday Concert yesterday. Photo by Brooke Purves

ARC’s Family Holiday Concert opens to full house.

Brooke Purves and Brooke Purves • December 5, 2013

The American River College Orchestra is an eclectic mix of music majors, students who just like to play their instruments and community member volunteers. Last night they put on a warm and festive performance...

Heather Halk practices the “Dance Arabe” from “The Nutcracker” during rehearsal last week. The ARC Orchestra and select dancers will perform selections from the suite Wednesday during the Family Holiday Concert. (Photo by Brooke Purves)

ARC Ballet and Orchestra winter show will contain selections from ‘The Nutcracker’

Brooke Purves and Brooke Purves • December 2, 2013

When Tchaikovsky was commissioned to compose the ballet that would be “The Nutcracker” in the 1890s, he was asked to create something that could be a recital piece, according to American River College...

BOG waiver eligibility changes proposed

Brooke Purves and Brooke Purves • November 27, 2013

After class today Brian Elston, 24, will drop off his backpack at the home he shares with his two cats, hop in his car and head to Deseret Industries to start his shift as a night security guard. Elston,...

Firebird Russian Restaurant and Gallery serves traditional Eastern and Central European fare such as (clockwise from left) cucumber and cabbage salad, mashed-potato latkes and golubtsi, cabbage rolls stuffed with beef and rice.

Diversity in dining found in local Russian restaurant

Brooke Purves and Brooke Purves • November 26, 2013

Firebird Russian Restaurant and Gallery, named after a recurring character in Slavic folklore, is a lighthouse of Eastern-European dining in a sea of literally hundreds of Mexican and Asian restaurants...

Mexican Oreos are soft, cinnamon-spiced Mexican Chocolate wafers with buttercream filling, pictured here with a trail mix cookie.

May we take your order?

Brooke Purves and Brooke Purves • November 18, 2013

The American River College Oak Cafe bakery, located in the award-winning culinary arts department, offers a wide range of delightful comestibles. Student-run, the bakery provides a venue by which those...

Engineering and web design major Gabriel Hernandez has a misspelled tattoo on his chest and is in the process of covering it. (Photo by Kameron Schmid)

DC proposed legislation means waiting period for tattoos

Brooke Purves, Kameron Schmid, Kameron Schmid, and Brooke Purves • November 18, 2013

By Brooke Purves and Kameron Schmid Health Department officials plan to help you control your body art The Washington D.C. Health Department has proposed draft legislation that would require a 24-hour...

The ARC Concert Choir performed with the Chamber Singers and two local high school choirs at the Fall Choral Invitational Concert on Nov. 5 in the ARC Theatre. The Concert Choir is open to any student who can match pitch. (Photo by Brooke Purves)

Choral concert brings multiple choirs together

Brooke Purves and Brooke Purves • November 15, 2013

The American River College Fall Choral Invitational Concert, held Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., in the ARC Theatre, was an opportunity for several students to reconnect with their former high school choir departments...

ARC student Dirtie Hippie, center, in the Mar. 16 bout against the Silicon Valley Roller Girls Killabytes, has skated with the Sac City Rollers since August 2010. Photo Courtesy of Terri Brindisi, Sac City Rollers

Rolling in the River City

Korbl Klimecki, Brooke Purves, Korbl Klimecki, and Brooke Purves • November 13, 2013

By Korbl Klimecki and Brooke Purves Eight women on speed skates line up on the rink and two more push up behind them. Five wear blue tank tops, five wear red t-shirts--that’s where the similarities...

In Our Heads: Brooke Purves

Brooke Purves and Brooke Purves • November 1, 2013

Book- “Hope: A Tragedy” by Shalom Auslander In this hysterically depressing novel, Auslander’s main character Solomon Kugel discovers a long-thought deceased icon of Jewish suffering taking refuge...

An MC White Construction worker tears down the remnants of the Rose Marks Pavilion on Oct. 21. (Photo by Jeff Gonzales)

Rose Marks Pavilion removed, to be replaced

Brooke Purves and Brooke Purves • October 25, 2013

The Rose Marks Pavilion, built and named in honor of a former American River College English teacher, was removed from the Rose Marks Quad on the ARC campus Monday. Mark White, owner of MC White Construction...

Never mind the gap

Never mind the gap

Brooke Purves and Brooke Purves • October 24, 2013

The quest for beauty is a rough one for us women. I’m told that while I want my breasts to squish together and pour out of my shirt, I want my thighs as far apart from each other as possible. This “thigh...

ARC English professor and author of Let the Water Hold Me Down Michael Spurgeon discusses the creative process of writing a novel for publication during College Hour in Raef Hall on Oct. 17. (Photo by Emily K. Rabasto)

ARC professor presents new novel

Brooke Purves and Brooke Purves • October 20, 2013

American River College English Professor Michael Spurgeon spoke about his new novel “Let the Water Hold Me Down” at College Hour on Thursday in 160 Raef Hall. The audience of about 60 students and...

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