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BERKELEY'S NEWS • MARCH 26, 2023

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Maya Thompson

Maya Thompson joined The Daily Californian's arts and entertainment staff in spring 2020 and currently contributes to the department as the 2022 summer training manager and as a senior staff writer. Her previous roles include film beat reporter (fall 2020, spring 2021), arts and entertainment assistant editor (fall 2021) and arts and entertainment head editor (spring 2022).

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Samia makes music awash with uncertainty and fissures about life and relationships, but her concert demonstrated that what pervades is her gentle confidence in a way to wade through it.
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Samia makes music awash with uncertainty and fissures about life and relationships, but her concert demonstrated that what pervades is her gentle confidence in a way to wade through it.
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On the Ides of March, we celebrate Shakespeare by highlighting his many and motley resurrections on the silver screen.
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On the Ides of March, we celebrate Shakespeare by highlighting his many and motley resurrections on the silver screen.
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In foggy San Francisco, where we lay our scene, romance is not dead, but it’s much darker.
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In foggy San Francisco, where we lay our scene, romance is not dead, but it’s much darker.
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When Kotomi heard she would be scoring the new Judy Blume documentary, she thought she was dreaming.
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When Kotomi heard she would be scoring the new Judy Blume documentary, she thought she was dreaming.
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Returning to its snowy Utah milieu after spending two years online, the 2023 Sundance Film Festival amplified an array of stories from underrepresented voices.
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Returning to its snowy Utah milieu after spending two years online, the 2023 Sundance Film Festival amplified an array of stories from underrepresented voices.
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Before flying to snowy Park City, Forbis and Tilby chatted with The Daily Californian over Zoom about festival preparations and “The Flying Sailor”— their animated short film about a middle-aged sailor’s near-death experience, inspired by the Halifax explosion of 1917.
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Before flying to snowy Park City, Forbis and Tilby chatted with The Daily Californian over Zoom about festival preparations and “The Flying Sailor”— their animated short film about a middle-aged sailor’s near-death experience, inspired by the Halifax explosion of 1917.
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This year, The Daily Californian’s arts reporters Maya Thompson, Sarah Runyan and Asha Pruitt traveled to Park City, Utah to view the festival’s prestigious lineup on the big screen. Here’s what they watched.
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This year, The Daily Californian’s arts reporters Maya Thompson, Sarah Runyan and Asha Pruitt traveled to Park City, Utah to view the festival’s prestigious lineup on the big screen. Here’s what they watched.
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Bad movies are fun when they’re in on the joke, but “Violent Night” can’t square tinsel-toned earnestness with insatiable bloodlust.
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Bad movies are fun when they’re in on the joke, but “Violent Night” can’t square tinsel-toned earnestness with insatiable bloodlust.
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In a sunny Berkeley debut, Headon and Templeman thawed the icy night air.
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In a sunny Berkeley debut, Headon and Templeman thawed the icy night air.
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British pianist Danny Driver delivered the healing balm of music to anxious audience members with his immersive and ethereal program, marking a promising debut recital with San Francisco Performances.
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British pianist Danny Driver delivered the healing balm of music to anxious audience members with his immersive and ethereal program, marking a promising debut recital with San Francisco Performances.
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