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A bad EDM remix was blaring over the speakers, the alcohol was nonexistent and still, my head was already pounding by the time he looked at me from across the dance floor. That’s where I met him, in a sweaty jumble of bodies. He was cute in a blonde-suburban-white-boy-next-door kind
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Since 1990, the Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, program has provided legal and humanitarian protection to immigrants in the U.S. fleeing natural disasters, war and political unrest. At the end of 2017, President Trump threatened to terminate the TPS program and deport more than 320,000 TPS beneficiaries already living in
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On Jan. 11, Gov. Gavin Newsom put forward a $209 billion state budget proposal that outlines his vision for the state. The bill includes a series of funding increases for the UC, which signal a welcome departure from former governor Jerry Brown’s more restrained appropriations. The governor’s proposal allocated $1.3
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It can be difficult to watch the news and come to the conclusion that life — and all its discrepancies — is beautiful. So don’t look to the news for that resolution. Instead, find it in the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive’s latest film series, “Life Goes On: The Films of Mia Hansen-Løve.”
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Three summers ago, I stood in my neighborhood and watched a strip of fire burn on the distant mountainside across the San Fernando Valley. Last winter, we felt the threat of fire as dry winds blew our windows open and the Thomas Fire burned in nearby Ventura County. With each
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Every morning, I recite to myself like a prayer, “You are strong, you are worthy, you are wonderful and you deserve to exist. You have overcome so much — you cannot let them win.”
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Almost two years into the Trump presidency, reports across the country have shown that people are registering to vote at higher rates than in previous years for a midterm election.
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The problem is that I am not only being erased by conservatives; I am being erased by my own “allies.”
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Messersmith described creating the album as a “sonic playground” and counts Cat Stevens, Françoise Hardy and Emitt Rhodes amongst its influences. “It’s nice to dial into a sonic palette. It’s fun to build a little sandbox,” Messersmith said.
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On Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018, a man went into a Pittsburgh synagogue and killed 11 people. According to the Anti-Defamation League, this was the largest attack on the Jewish people in U.S. history. I wish I could say that I was shocked when I heard the news. I was sitting
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