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

“Red Light District”

The Mother Hips:
“Toughie”

Interview

“Song for J.B.”

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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.

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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 person diagnosed but the people closest to him or her.

“It’s a disease of the family,” says Fred Taubman, director of communications for the Huntington’s Disease Society of America. “It impacts worse than normal diseases, like cancer.”

Ashley Young’s family has been haunted by this disease for three generations. Ashley’s grandfather, dad and older brother have all been diagnosed with Huntington’s.

And Ashley has a 50/50 chance of inheriting it. But she won’t let the prospect of the disease consume her.

Read more here.

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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

Part 5: Executive Vice President

Part 6: President

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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.

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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.

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Basketball Hall-of-Famer Bill Walton’s spoke at UC Berkeley about college and basketball for his Pac-12 campus tour. Read more here.

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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 beat out 11 teams from universities around the world — including the University of Oxford and Harvard University — and won first place, marking the second time a team from UC Berkeley has won the competition. Read more here.

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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 and arts and crafts, and over time it has become an emblem of Oakland’s renaissance. Some feel, however, that the usual art scene in recent months has shifted toward a crowded party atmosphere, and in the wake of Campbell’s death, people question the appropriateness of having Art Murmur and First Friday coincide.

The citywide festival and art show experienced a reduced turnout last Friday and reflected a darker tone. Candlelight memorials along Broadway and Telegraph Avenue commemorated victims of violence, and the city scaled the event down as it increased its security. Still, a disoriented Oakland community managed to reconvene, and it organized First Friday along with Art Murmur once again.

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The San Francisco company ZEROdB hosted a silent rave on BART Saturday night. Attendees with wireless headphones danced in the last few train cars.

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