Frank Ocean’s single ‘Dear April’ is a dreamy ballad for isolation
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“Dear April,” the first of two Frank Ocean singles released in 2020 so far, finds him quietly resurfacing in a time of contemplation and reflection.
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7 essentials to pack for your day at the pool
Although Berkeley’s weather is not quite up to date with summer, there is no doubt that soon, we’ll have the perfect weather to dip our toes in the water.
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Best of Berkeley: Campus 2019
Best building: Berkeley Way West UC Berkeley’s psychology, public health and education departments may have been disappointed to have to pack up their old offices when, in 2018, they were told they’d be moving to the new building on Berkeley Way. Little did these faculty and staff members know that
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The Daily Californian’s guide to the best literature, film and music podcasts
With The Daily Californian’s arts & entertainment department coming out with a new podcast, “Popcorn Paperback,” in October, there’s no time like the present to examine the world of podcasts. Here is the Daily Cal’s guide to some of the best arts podcasts you’ve been missing out on.
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Game of Thorns: Week 3 of ‘Bachelor in Paradise’ parodies the CW with way too many forced love triangles
At this point, Bachelor in Paradise has enough love triangles to make a geometry teacher confused. Jenna is the second blonde distraught over who to pick.
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Thanks, Pennywise
All Growns Up
I had never been friends with people so different from me. Anything that could go wrong with your roommates had crossed my mind.
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Thriving on individuality: Creative identities flourish in Berkeley’s Thrive Dance Company
As artistic director, Arshonsky intends to use her position to even further develop the foundation of independence and creativity that Thrive has already established.
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In defense of short albums: Why brevity, coherence matters
The feeling I get, more and more, is that “in defense of the short album” might actually start translating to “in defense of the album.”
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The Weeknd falls down rabbit hole with ‘Starboy’
By trying to fix something that wasn’t broken, The Weeknd, real name Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, breaks it all with Starboy — our hearts, our ears and his soul. Somewhere amid the 18 tracks, we lose The Weeknd, and The Weeknd loses us. But rather than heading off into the elusive darkness
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Frank Ocean’s ‘Blonde’ marks heavenly return
“Inhale, in hell, there’s heaven.” Such was the heart sigh that echoed through the empty, cavernous salvation of Blonde, Frank Ocean’s new album self-released Saturday on Apple Music, one of two major Frank Ocean album releases in the past week. With a release shrouded in mystery, four years after his
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