Tagged Berkeley

On Thursday night, after submitting my two half-baked Session A finals and thus closing the door on a veritable lifetime of summer school, I slicked my hair back, donned a blazer, and set off towards Rickshaw S...

17 year-old me was many things: eldest sibling by chance, Taylor Swift enthusiast by choice, a teenager by definition, and liar by the means of my own mind, which I still do not fully understand to this day. I ...

In tennis (the sport), love means zero. In Tennis (the band), that is hardly the case. Husband-and-wife duo Alaina and Patrick Riley have been spreading their love through music since 2010. They met as philosop...

“Shrooms, molly, ketamine, pre-rolls!”  As soon as we stepped in line, the Phish experience was off to a raging start. After almost fifteen years, Phish returned to the Greek Theatre in Berkeley Califor...

100 Gecs and Machine Girl together in concert is a match made in heaven. Their April 5 show at Oakland’s Fox Theater was no exception. For anyone looking for high-energy music and dancing, it was a must-see s...

The Whiskey and Weed Tour from Kash’d Out provided Cornerstone Berkeley with over three hours of uninterrupted satisfaction. Fans were delighted by the calm, cheerful mood provided by the band and their opene...

  Weyes Blood put me under a spell Sunday night at the Regency Ballroom, and I still haven’t fully recovered. Draped in the white billowing fabric of gods and/or ghosts, she breezed onto the stage...

The UC Theatre shook with exhilaration from experiencing over an hour of nonstop punk energy from Otoboke Beaver on International Women’s Day. With Accorinrin providing the main vocals, Yoyoyoshie on guitar, ...

Touring with The High Curbs along their west coast stint, King Shelter breathed OC air into the Cornerstone at Berkeley Tuesday night. “Berkeley, you’re an interesting place," declared lead singer Taylor He...

Characterized by dreamy doubled vocals and temperamental time signatures, Berkeley-based indie band Chammeili’s 2022 record Icy Blue provides listeners with a bird’s eye view of the trials, tribulations, an...

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith is an American composer, producer, and performer originally from Northwest Washington. The artist, who is currently based in Los Angeles, spent her former years at the Berklee college of m...

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” ...

Watching Jean Dawson perform is like witnessing a fish swim underwater.    In the crowd at an intimate Oakland venue I felt both the tumultuous waves starting in the pit and the serenity of seeing a...

Day To Night Festival Day 1 Thousands of people traveled to Treasure Island on October 15 for Day To Night Festival. Only a 15 minute drive from Berkeley, I was at the festival in no time. There was onl...

On Thursday, April 14, indie punk group Mannequin Pussy rocked Upper Sproul, sparking a daytime mosh that triumphed over the gloomy weather conditions and chased the rainy day blues away. This was an unexpected...