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Western classical music and Indian classical music can be thought of like two different languages, with structural attributes and phrases that can translate from one into the other. At the same time, there are realms that one has elaborated upon and the other has approached radically differently or not at
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A new exhibit on display at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive until Dec. 11, “Push and Pull” features a collection of paintings by the late German-American abstract expressionist painter Hans Hoffman. Some of the paintings on display are works that he specifically gifted to UC Berkeley. Hoffman
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“If there’s any sort of message about parenting or living, it’s about seeking balance,” said Matt Ross, the Berkeley-based director and screenwriter of “Captain Fantastic.” The message sounds reasoned, if well-worn. The route that “Captain Fantastic” takes to get to that message, from deep in the forests of the Pacific
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This year’s Ojai at Berkeley was entitled “Courageous Women, Transcendent Visions.” Ojai at Berkeley 2016 was the latest in a six years and running collaboration between Cal Performances and Ojai Music Festival, a Southern California classical music festival run by American theater director Peter Sellars. To anyone who attended the
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You can capture, to some degree, any human experience with the written word. It was only appropriate, then, that the Bay Area Book Festival covered an array of topics that extended far beyond the bookish. On June 4 and 5, white tents lined Allston Way and Milvia St. from 10
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“How many of y’all got good grades?” asked rapper Freddie Gibbs to the crowd gathered at Sproul Plaza on March 31. His tendency to shoot the shit served to highlight the differences between his culture and that of the UC Berkeley student body. To be fair, these differences can be
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“Ever wished we had a campus wide concert series? Perhaps a ‘Coachella’ or ‘Sun God’?” read the Facebook event description for BearFest, a festival organized by ASUC executives and SUPERB that was to be the Thursday before spring break. Although BearFest had plenty of enjoyable moments, its logistics definitely need
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Kendrick Lamar has ventured into a lot of new territory over the last five years, but the struggle between sin and repentance has long been a part of his work. After all, the cover of his breakout mixtape Section.80 featured both bullets and a Bible. untitled unmastered collects outtakes from
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