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UC Berkeley’s Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life announced Nov. 18 that Hannah Weisman would be its first executive director. 

Paul Rabinow, UC Berkeley professor emeritus of anthropology and world-renowned anthropologist, died April 6 at the age of 76 in his Berkeley home.

Run for the exits in disgust or fall for this manic pixie dream girl of a campy, supernatural thriller. Luca Guadagnino rebranded Dario Argento’s 1977 cult classic, “Suspiria,” in an exercise in Hollywood world building that’s about as polarizing as listening to your mate’s stories about gap year.

There are few renditions of “An Enemy of the People,” Henrik Ibsen’s revered political drama from 1882, that begin with a soft, acoustic version of “Crazy” by Gnarls Barkley. In Schaubühne’s reimagination of the classic piece, however, not only “Crazy,” but “These Days” and “Wonderwall” were on the setlist as well.

After a prolific 2017 and a comparatively quiet 2018, Texas boy band Brockhampton’s RCA Records debut "iridescence" stays true to the band’s ethos while successfully executing on an ambitious push toward new musical territory.

Every semester in The Daily Californian’s arts & entertainment department, we welcome a new batch of beat reporters. While they will spend the semester reporting on a multitude of different projects and exhibits specific to their expertise, they rarely have the opportunity to focus on their topics on a small scale.

Campus molecular biology and biochemistry professor Jennifer Doudna was awarded the 2018 Kavli Prize in nanoscience for her role in discovering CRISPR, a revolutionary gene-editing technology, in a gala hosted by Norwegian King Harald V on Tuesday.

The greatest challenge of “Cabaret” is balancing the bold rendition with the faithful one. The Refuge’s production exists somewhere square in the middle of the spectrum.

Street art has a paramount role in the history and culture of Berkeley. Once disregarded as mere vandalism, street art is now a prestigious field of art.

The drizzle is light, and it stops as I hurry down the steps to the classroom. No heavy downpour tonight. Scotland’s being good to me. As usual.