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UC Berkeley looks toward the season after the add/drop deadline. Into fall with an Amber, Mahogany and Saffron color story, cohesive from lipstick to sandal strap. Ready for an English 190: Manifest Destiny’s Child seminar, with that 90’s crop top riding on a straight Oregon Trail skirt. This look’s about
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Radio ads and announcements are often the jabber between songs, the necessary evils that help listeners keep their stations in business. Physical CDs have assumed a similar role in music. If sales are what a band’s spirit is worth in cold, hard cash, then lately, that answer has been: nothing.
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Heems of Das Racist is from “Cop Killer” Queens, he’s “Never killed a cop, though / More the type to burn a spliff and eat a bag of nachos / More the type to read a novel, maybe ‘bout Navajos.” He is a frequent collaborator of Danny Brown’s and the
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Editor’s note: This feature is one of a two-part series analyzing new shifts in hip-hop as demonstrated by two rising artists (one established, the other underground) that deny conventions on the national stage and in our community: Danny Brown and Zachg. On the 2002 track “Oops (Oh My)”, Tweet’s skirt
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On the Facebook event of “The City is Ours,” a free music festival hitting Oakland this Saturday, Hector Jimenez wants “ya’ll mudafuckas,” as he refers to the event’s organizers, to “tell where tba is at right now !!!!!” but the event’s promoters are staying tight-lipped. Staying true to the night’s name
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With its big egos and conspicuous consumption, hip-hop is not as distant from fashion as it might seem. The relentless ferocity of hip-hop beats and strength of its personalities molds hip-hip into a fitting runway soundtrack. Ad campaigns too can hitch a fashion brand to the popularity of a current
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Lena Dunham’s new HBO show “Girls” debuted April 15. If you have an internet connection you’ve read about it. There are some buzz-phrases that pop-up a lot. Here’s a quick guide to what you might find if you watch take a look. The show is “coming of age in a post-recession,
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The dawning of Tele-Bears can be something like the lead-up to Black Friday. When the powers decide to open the doors to the site, students bust in; sometimes we crash server. It’s important to pick wisely, because there are only so many classes you can fit in your cart and
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Even as digital technology revamps most cultural experiences, museum-going has remained relatively static. There is something sacred about making that trek to a gallery to stand with an art piece. But there’s also a clumsiness involved in navigating the crowds, children, security guards in the museum obstacle courses. Frustrations like
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The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater offers an alternative to those who are and aren’t into religious or Class A ecstasy. At Cal Performances on March 13, the company translated the inclusive energy of ritual spaces like the club and the church to Zellerbach Hall in pieces featuring gospel and
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