November 2017 and its Drastic, Irreversible Effects on the Perception of Time
The butterfly effect is approaching cliché status in media; several films, video games, and novels now explore how one diminutive moment ripples across time and space and throws reality into a frenzy. Yet
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Closing your eyes: A moment alone with Julia Holter’s Something in the Room She Moves
For the grand majority of us, listening to music is as easy as opening up your phone, connecting to your various bluetooth devices for proper amplification, and choosing a song. Everything in the world, every...
Glee, they could never make me hate you
Glee is the greatest thing to ever grace a television screen and you can’t change my mind.
I’ve decided that 2025 is my year of self-acceptance, but why wait? I’m getting a head start on my resolutio...
A quintessential fall album: Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago
Following the warm weather and constant sunshine of the summer, it is almost ironic how it is followed by autumn, marked with rain, gloom, and for a lot of people, the beginning of a new school year. These elem...
The delays, the freeways, and the gays
My shins were burning as I sped-walked through UC Berkeley’s tree lined north campus, down and up the paved path as my “Slow Jams” playlist queued Cat Stevens in my ear, attempting to calm me down so no o...
SLCHLD in Seattle: she likes spring, we both prefer winter
It’s my second year living in California, but Seattle is my home. The bulk of my memories are there, the “growing up” stage of my life still contained in Seattle’s crisp, chilly air. I see my homesickne...
Reflecting on Sidney Gish’s “No Dogs Allowed” as an anxious and awkward 20-year-old
Your morning begins with a day-old cup of coffee. The bitter taste of hardwood and ruthlessly closed doors. You scrub the floorboards of your mind, try to rid yourself of the stench of your second overdue assig...
Love like religion: A Dollface album review
Hana Bryanne released her debut album titled Dollface on September 15, 2023, at twenty years old. It was written entirely by Bryanne and produced by Carter Jahn and Maxwell Bienert. Its namesake deriv...
The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We: A Lyrical Exploration of Mitski’s New Album
You can’t live in this house anymore. There’s more mold than grout between your bathroom tiles. The foundations are rotting and slowly sinking into the earth. You asked your landlord to do something about i...
Another reason they shouldn’t have given me a license: Screaming in the suburbs when there’s nowhere to go but the highway
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 ...
Give me my ticket stub or give me death!
Photo by Gary Friedman
I had the wonderful pleasure to see Grace Jones at the Fox Theater for the immensely convenient price of zero dollars. As instructed by the contest-holders, I went to the box office ...
Could I beat my most listened to artists of 2022 in a fight?
2022 is almost over and that means a flurry of Instagram stories showing everyone’s most listened to music of the year is fast approaching. I use Apple Music rather than Spotify, so I do not get the artistic ...
Mexicans in Madrid: coming full circle in a Spanish club
As a brown Mexican-American, Spain h...
“Thank u, next” to racial identity: pop star Ariana Grande’s record of racebending
I asked 40 people: what race is Ariana Grande? The answers were inconclusive, with answers ranging from Latina, Southeast Asian and Middle Eastern. The pop artist, known for her ponytail hairstyle and whistle t...