San Fernando Valley

The admission tour guide told my mostly Latino classmates about the birth of the Free Speech Movement on “this very campus” and detailed the historical significance of many sights during the tour. They explained how UC Berkeley was a center for activism and advocacy of marginalized voices.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 1327 on Friday, allowing Californians to sue entities responsible for the development or distribution of illegal assault weapons and homemade guns without serial numbers, or “ghost guns.”

I was immediately filled with childhood giddiness when I saw my first and only street vendor in Berkeley. For a second, I had completely forgotten I was so far from home, and that moment instantly placed me back in the beaming days of the San Fernando Valley.

“Licorice Pizza” is one of the most blissful, hilarious films of the year, a rare sunny two hours of coming-of-age and emotion truly seen in the effervescent Encino sun. For Haim, the experience behind the camera is just as memorable as what audiences see in front of it.

Before I went to high school, I didn’t register the Valley’s role in our upbringing — I hadn’t realized we’re, like, literally Valley girls.

“GLOW,” in many ways, serves as a type of spiritual successor to “Orange is the New Black” and carries the mark of Kohan and her fellow writers.