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SUPERB Productions has been entertaining the students of UC Berkeley since 1964. From Talking Heads in 1978 to Father John Misty in 2012, SUPERB lineups have consistently brought a diverse group of musicians to UC Berkeley’s campus for free concerts, and this semester’s lineup is no different! The Daily Cal is excited
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Turn up the Beyonce, and pull your bed away from the wall!
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Director David O. Russell describes making a film as placental amnesia — the phenomenon of women forgetting how horrific childbirth is in order to allow themselves to do it again. “Making certain films,” Russell said Tuesday night in a live Q&A hosted by the New York Film Critics Series at Elmwood’s
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Twitter is a strange thing. At times, it has helped start revolutions and mobilized people en masse, while at other times it has been a platform for self-imposed humiliation. Nonetheless, Twitter has served as a valuable tool for celebrities to unload their often nonsensical stream of consciousness that others call
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At Cal, our gears are always turning, our hard drives are always spinning and our vinyls are always rotating. Someone, somewhere is thinking of something crazy and doing something monumental — albeit surely controversial. But every great idea was once blasphemy. From the way we engage with social media, to
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Sky Ferreira signed to a major label on a million-dollar record deal as a teenager but only now, at the age of 21, has released her first album: Night Time, My Time. Ferreira’s debut album is clearly the product of an artist struggling to experiment with grunge yet compelled to
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Miley Cyrus is the living embodiment of a well-formulated “fuck it,” and so is her new album, Bangerz. Here’s the thing about Bangerz: It isn’t a great album, but it definitely has a few good tracks. Aside from the infectious “We Can’t Stop” and the already contagious “Wrecking Ball,” you
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I’m already screaming out of excitement and fear because the third season of American Horror Story, Coven, comes out this week and it is expected to be wilder and more terrifying than ever before. Two years ago, American Horror Story released its first season, American Horror Story: Murder House and
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President Obama once said that one of his favorite television shows is “Homeland.” In response to this compliment from the Command in Chief—the guy whose job it is confront the realities of terrorism and homeland security on a near constant basis—the show’s two stars, Claire Danes and Damian Lewis signed
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In November 2011, when Occupy Cal was at its peak, professor Robert Reich spoke to a crowd of thousands gathered on Sproul Plaza. Tensions ran high, and passions flared. Speakers took the stage, offering insight and hope, echoing the protesters’ anger. Standing on Mario Savio Steps, Reich urged the crowd
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