Columns and Opinions

“2023 is the year of female rage,” says the caption on a TikTok showing a conventionally attractive white woman, eyeliner done like Priscilla Presley’s, dress straight out of Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)...

When asked how rap music makes you feel, a few things probably come to mind. You might remember your heart rate rising or your mind speeding up against the rapid beat. Whether it’s at a concert among the wild...

Gunk zine issue 4 by Bikceem Ramdasha Riot grrrl is an underground feminist punk movement that originated in the 1990s in the Pacific Northweast of the United States, although some argue the genre truly sta...

I got to drive a car a few weeks ago. I was so rusty, I smacked the side window on an unmoving wall. It made me realize how many months it’d been, and suddenly all I wanted to do was drive. Of all the things ...

Before Thursday night at the Masonic in SF, the closest I had ever come to seeing Peach Pit live was the Tropicalia Festival in 2019. Their self-titled claim to fame “Peach Pit” garnered extreme views on Yo...

On the first day of the UAW strike, nestled at the corner of Bancroft St. and College Avenue, post-docs, GSIs, and academic researchers organized and gathered, parading signs with the words “UAW ON STRIKE” ...

In one of their final stops on the Horseshit on Route 66 tour The Garden gave their first of two nights at San Francisco’s Regency Ballroom on November 29th. Despite a notably lackluster energy from the band ...

If you’re reading this magazine, you probably know how it feels to not fit in. To have – at least at some point in your childhood – felt like the odd one out. At the risk of sounding like a middle school ...

This Wednesday, the 13th of November, a friend and I navigated the tumultuous Bay Area public transport system to attend an L.S. Dunes concert in San Francisco. We’d purchased the tickets a few months earlier...

When my abuela was a little girl, her mother allowed her to play with the neighborhood kids in the street under one condition: she must be home by tea time, which was three o’clock on the dot. She told me the...

It was on a full blood moon in October that Florence and The Machine took the stage at Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California. As I stood in the audience, an overwhelming feeling of serendipity fel...

With no choice but to isolate during the pandemic, many of us, in our collective boredom, spent our days coping with various outlets. Some of us took up new hobbies, like baking bread or crocheting. Others look...

When I was thirteen, I watched Gia Coppola’s directorial debut Palo Alto (2013), and believed it was the epitome of cinema and storytelling. I recently watched the movie again and could not help but reflect o...

In my life I have met two types of people: those who intricately craft a playlist, who will put their life and soul into this playlist, and then those with one mega playlist. For the former there is no such thi...

The iconic Primavera Sound festival finally made its way to Los Angeles, California on the weekend of September 16th-18th. For two decades Primavera Sound has been spreading music throughout the world. The fest...