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No matter how much you love Berkeley, there are certain things about home that you can’t help but miss. It might feel like you’re still back at home on Netflix with a bag of extra-buttery popcorn and some Nutella on the side. We know it’s only been a week since
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You’ve got four free hours, and you’ve been hearing all the buzz about “At Berkeley,” so you’re thinking about watching it. Critics are eating it up, but we have some other suggestions for using your time. Instead of acting like all four hours of the film are actually interesting, do
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The last days of winter break are upon us. Soon we’ll all be back in Berkeley and in a few weeks it’ll be like nothing’s changed. In a blink of an eye, midterms will be upon you. And before you know it, you’ll find yourself sitting in a room taking
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Before you start freaking out about all the days you’ve wasted over break, stop and take a deep breath. It’s OK. Sure, it was probably a bad idea to spend eight hours a day Netflixing instead of writing those cover letters or working on your killer bod for spring break,
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I’ve seen more seasons of “The Bachelorette” than I would like to admit. I even watched some episodes of “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” this past summer and felt my heart rate quicken every time some dumb fight arose, such as when Kylie stole some of Kim’s clothes. Needless to
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“Women in television” — and, particularly, the “Can women be funny?” question — is a very tired conversation now. It’s been done and dissected, and now, it should be put in the kitchen, where it can keep silent and make me sandwiches. And yet it keeps cropping up because, joking
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The new season of “Arrested Development” is confusing, hands down. The “Netflix semi-original series” brought everyone’s favorite dysfunctional family back together for one more season after Fox cancelled the cult classic in 2006 due to low ratings. Complete with the requisite inside jokes, flashbacks, scheming and catch phrases that initially
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With eager fans already flooding social media sites with their new favorite quotes and witticisms, the release of the new season of “Arrested Development” could not be overlooked by the Clog. At 12:01 a.m. Sunday morning, the highly anticipated fourth season was available for streaming on Netflix, sending the show’s
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OK, we know that UC Berkeley has a ridiculous number of libraries — 32, to be exact. So why on Earth would you venture over to Kittredge Street to go to the public library when there are study spots, big and small, literally all across campus? Here are four very
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I have an addictive personality. It’s nothing too serious. Never drugs, not alcohol. It’s mostly media. Or, more accurately, all media. Television, movies, music and my current vice of choice, video games. I’ll admit it, I’ve almost completely engrossed myself in the modern world of gaming. I’ve played everything from
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