Local Bay Area acts The Soft White Sixties, Midi Matilda and The Mother Hips are performing at Outside Lands this weekend. The Daily Cal interviewed the bands and asked them to play two songs each. The Soft White Sixties: “City Lights” Interview “Up to the Light” Midi Matilda: “Ottawa” Interview Read More…
New Diplomat talk with the Daily Cal about their music and perform the song “Idle Mind.” The band will be performing at the Independent in San Francisco on May 30.
Huntington’s disease, which remains incurable, is a progressive brain disorder caused by a faulty gene that is passed down through families. Affecting one out of every 10,000 Americans, the symptoms for Huntington’s disease normally emerge in adults between the ages of 30 and 50. Huntington’s disease affects not only the Read More…
The ASUC Candidates Forum, organized by the Daily Californian, was held Friday, April 5. Candidates from all parties participated in a debate facilitated by JD Morris, The Daily Californian’s opinion editor. Part 1: Referendums Part 2: Student Advocate Part 3: Academic Affairs Vice President Part 4: External Affairs Vice President Read More…
Students at Berkeley’s Jefferson Elementary School are campaigning for their classmate Rodrigo, who is unable to return to the United States after a trip to Mexico over winter break. Read more here.
Around 15 protesters dressed in black and holding flower-adorned coffins held a “Funeral for Workers’ Rights” on Sproul Plaza Thursday morning in protest of proposed cuts to UC workers’ benefits. Read more here.
Basketball Hall-of-Famer Bill Walton’s spoke at UC Berkeley about college and basketball for his Pac-12 campus tour. Read more here.
A team of UC Berkeley students won the University Mobile Challenge last Thursday for creating an app that will allow water providers to remotely control water supplies in the developing world. Having made it to the finals at the GSM Association Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, UC Berkeley-based group Flowbit Read More…
Oakland’s First Friday and Art Murmur returned this past week after February’s street festival ended in tragedy when 18-year-old Kiante Campbell was shot and killed at 20th Street and Telegraph Avenue. That First Friday could have been the city’s last. The monthly night gathering attracts thousands for its food, music Read More…
The San Francisco company ZEROdB hosted a silent rave on BART Saturday night. Attendees with wireless headphones danced in the last few train cars.