Last night some friends and I went to the Downtown Arts Walk. This is an event that is put on by the Riverside Cultural Consortium and is held the first Thursday of every month from 6-9pm. There are about 12 art galleries and museums downtown that participate. They have special exhibits and attractions, and all of them are free. There are many people who cannot afford studios in the art galleries, so they set up their artwork on the sidewalks for people to see and possibly buy as they walk between the galleries.
I haven't seen downtown this busy since they used to do the market night on Wednesday nights. It's a very interesting crowd. One of the artists that we looked at was giving away a percentage of her profits to the Riverside Animal Shelter. I thought that was a great idea because not only was she at the Arts Walk helping to bring people out to Downtown Riverside, but she was also helping one of the other groups in the community.
After the Arts Walk we went to Lake Alice. I really like this bar because they have so much going on there. They have pool tables, a shuffle board table, arcade games, bar games, and some big screen tv's. On Thursday nights they have karaoke, too. We watched the game for a little while and listened to a couple people sing before we left for the night. Lake Alice is a good place to just hang out and meet people or bring a big group of friends for the night.
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