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Culture Shot

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Tunesday: For looking out a rainy window, thinking about the meaning of life

Illustration for Tunesday playlist, with a phone, vinyl record, and earbuds
Alexander Hong/Senior Staff

You are the star of the movie that is your life. So earbuds in, assume the gaze position and reflect. 
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Culture Shot

Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Illustration for Tunesday playlist, with a phone, vinyl record, and earbuds

Tunesday: Complicated love on Valentine’s Day

This year, celebrate Valentine’s Day by listening to songs that capture the complicated and contradictory parts of love.
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Columns, Sex on Tuesday

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Your best American girl

Sex on Tuesday

None of these reasons felt as insurmountable as the fact that we came from different cultural understandings of the world.
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Album Reviews

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Soccer Mommy unleashes flurry of vivid melancholy on ‘Color Theory’

‘Color Theory,’ her second record, doesn’t stray from her brand, but instead elevates it with a soft and low-key yet powerful and emotional atmosphere.
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Welcome Bears 2019

Monday, August 19, 2019

Berkeley bops to set your 1st year to

What better way is there to kick off freshman year than jamming to a playlist as alternating feelings of terror and doe-eyed curiosity wash over you?
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Concerts

Friday, July 19, 2019

With aid from desk, Mitski plays energetic rock show at Stern Grove

Mitski sat in the chair behind the desk, as one would expect — but she also sat on top of the desk, lay down on the desk, stood on the desk, turned the desk on its side.
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Sounding Off

Monday, November 19, 2018

UC Berkeley student Kelsey Ferrell speaks on new album, social justice

Kelsey Ferrell is a UC Berkeley junior juggling her passions for music and social justice, sometimes even intertwining the two. This past summer, she recorded her first album, Trauma Portfolio, which she released in October.
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Concerts

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Mitski captivates Warfield audience with dreamlike vocals, idiosyncratic dance moves

Mitski’s show Saturday night at The Warfield in San Francisco was a perfect reflection of her musical ethos — her unabashed refusal to hide her personality while performing made for an intimate yet distant experience that mesmerized her die-hard audience.
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Album Reviews

Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Mitski surpasses past work with new album ‘Be the Cowboy’

These give the album its light, pop feel. All these things culminate to help Mitski reach far past the sounds that launched her into stardom.
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Culture Shot

Monday, August 20, 2018

Picks of the Week: Beat the back-to-school blues with blockbusters, baby birds and beyond

I don’t know about you, but I’m excited for UC Berkeley classes to start back up this Wednesday. But first, there are two days left of summer break, and I plan to make the most of them.
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