Support campus seismic safety, vote for Prop. 13
Alexander Hong/Senior Staff
The UC system now has significant seismic repair needs.Simply put, Prop. 13 recognizes that investing in UC students is key to California’s future.
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Impostor syndrome in STEM
Cracking the Code Ceiling
It’s taken a lot of energy and effort to try to combat my impostor syndrome and stop comparing myself within STEM. Whether it’s taking the time to write or calling an old friend in between classes, I try to remember the things outside of academia that make me who I am.
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Clog report: Hot dog vendor starts vending tea at orchestra instead
To Berkeley classical music lovers, a cup of Classy Mike’s at the orchestra has quickly become as iconic as a hot dog at the football game.
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TDPS delivers visually stunning, captivating rendition of ‘Metamorphoses’
“Metamorphoses” offers strong performances and captivating technical aspects throughout the very different, but equally compelling, stories.
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Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza tells Berkeley to ‘keep fighting’ at campus talk
Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza discussed the current and future goals of BLM within the current political climate at the UC Berkeley International House on Thursday.
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The Trocks still defy stereotypes, bust guts in 40th anniversary Zellerbach performance
Ballet tends to take itself seriously. However, Saturday afternoon, with the support of Cal Performances, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo turned any preconceptions of ballet as stuffy, boring or restrained entirely upside down.
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TDPS Production of “The Cherry Orchard” looks gorgeous, thoughtfully entertains
“The Cherry Orchard” was first performed in January 1904 — the same year of the playwright Anton Chekhov’s death. The characters of this classic play are situated after the 1861 Russian emancipation of the serfs, an event that altered the divisions of the previous upper class and lower class. The tragicomic
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Jessie Ware’s live performance surpasses album in excellence
For the Jessie Ware show, which took place April 7, Zellerbach Theater had a bit of an identity crisis. It served as a site for an electro-pop concert, but it insisted on preserving its classiness with ushers and gilded chandeliers. That’s not to say that Ware didn’t perform excellently —
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Weekender Picks
I suggest reading The Fader’s cover story on Migos, a rap trio from Atlanta. — Anya Schultz Zellerbach Hall is hosting Théâtre de la Ville this weekend, a Paris company who will be performing Six Characters in Search of an Author. It’s supposed to be phenomenal. Student tickets are $21.
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Comedian Demetri Martin discusses the evolution of stand-up
The morning routine these days is simple for comedian Demetri Martin: wake up, slip on some sweatpants, crack open the laptop, fire up a Word document, step onto his treadmill desk and wrestle with the intimidating monster of blankness until a joke or two squeezes out. It’s been a refreshing
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