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Alec Smyth’s Picks of the Week

Treasure Island Music Festival The ever-growing Bay Area music festival returns this weekend with even bigger headliners, including Atoms for Peace and Animal Collective. With the San Francisco skyline as the most epic backdrop ever, the festival is a guaranteed good time. If you decide to splurge on the ticket, Read More…

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Daily Cal Street Style: Make a Statement

Whether it be with mixed prints or contrast color-blocking, we couldn’t help but notice the bold outfits your fellow Cal bears put together this week. Scroll through and take some notes! Vreni (pictured above) This cool grad student was running late to an appointment so we couldn’t give her the Read More…

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Daily Cal Street Style: Working Hard or Hardly Working

The Daily Cal roamed campus this week in search of Cal’s fiercest fashionistas. Typing away on their laptops or breaking for a quick coffee, these chic scholars showed what it means to study in style. Elizabeth (pictured right) DC: It looks like you may be a punk rock fan. Who’s Read More…

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Films on farms, fatalities and the French

The fifth annual Oakland Underground Film Festival brought local and international films to Bay Area audiences. From documentaries to shorts to full-length features, OakUFF demonstrated what it means to be truly underground in an age when that title is so loosely applied. The festival provided local beer from Drake’s Brewing Read More…

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So what if Miley’s a slut?

Aug. 25 was an iconic day in contemporary American history, apparently. Miley Cyrus twerked, and we cared. The single act sparked one of the most notable outcries from the general public in the history of live performance, and if you haven’t been living under a pile of discarded Random Access Read More…

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Art: young and local. “Fabricated to be Photographed”

‘Hip’ would be an obsolete adjective to describe the crowd of artists, art students, and art enthusiasts who turned up to underground gallery 1038sf last week to catch a first glimpse of work by five young photographers from San Francisco in a Castro Heights basement. The installation, entitled, “Fabricated to Read More…