Arts & Culture

The Arts Desk’s weekly picks for music, movies and more    By SAVANNAH ANNO — arts@theaggie.org   Song: “Obvious” by After (2025) Like summer in a bottle, “Obvious” is a dreamy, romantic track from the two-man band After’s debut EP. The extended play record — fittingly titled “After EP” — is an ode to Y2K […]

The bewitching singer-songwriter’s third album takes her music in a wilder, more vulnerable direction   By NATALIE SALTER — arts@theaggie.org    The contemporary dating scene — one so emotionally barren that the term “situationship” has emerged to define almost every romance — tends to make true love look like a distant, almost illusory prospect. Is […]

The final season of “You” asks viewers to consider their own role in condoning Joe Goldberg’s actions    BY JULIE HUANG – arts@theaggie.org   The fifth and final season of “You” was released on April 24, bringing viewers a definitive conclusion to Joe Goldberg’s story that doubles down on the repetitive nature of his obsessive […]

As spring is in full bloom, enjoy the season with a playlist to match   By NATALIE SALTER—arts@theaggie.org    Springtime brings a whole new feeling to the world each time it arrives. Nature is reborn in a whorl of green leaves and iridescent flowers as sunshine bursts through rain clouds. The season is at once […]

Why blind boxes, bag charms and everything in between have taken the world by storm   By NATALIE SALTER—arts@theaggie.org    There’s an inexplicable pleasure in the opening of a blind boxes. You inspect the bag’s possible contents and point out which ones you desperately hope are inside, tear it open with a delightful thrill and […]

Let your brain breathe, or don’t and meet Tralalero Tralala in your algorithmic descent   By IQRA AHMAD — arts@theaggie.org Bored? Good. You might be onto something. Stop doomscrolling. Yes, you. The 38th TikTok video or Instagram Reel will still be there in five minutes; it’s a promise. Let’s talk about that strange, sticky feeling […]

Board members speak to the significance and process of the upcoming collaborative event    By SAVANNAH ANNO — arts@theaggie.org   Creating their own portable gallery walls from the ground up and converting the Art Building’s basement into an exhibition space, neither Open Walls Collective (OWC) nor The Basement Gallery (BG) are unfamiliar with bringing a […]

The Arts Desk’s weekly picks for movies, music and more   By BELLA PETERSON —- arts@theaggie.org    Book: “Klara and the Sun” by Kazuo Ishiguro (2021)   “Klara and the Sun” was a book I was assigned to read for my fourth year of high school, and I am forever thankful that my 12th grade […]

The 2011 novel, “The Night Circus,” raises the time-old question: Do you judge a book by its cover?   By BELLA PETERSON — arts@theaggie.org   The classic dilemma of judging a book by its cover — a tale as old as time. Although the saying as it stands isn’t always targeted toward books, it still […]

Books for channeling your inner whimsy, embracing escapism and staving off the summer heat    By ALYSSA CREVOISERAT — arts@theaggie.org   As spring turns into summer, the outside temperature climbs and the urge to abandon coursework and commitments for an early start to summer break begins. The prelude to summer, spring is a pleasant chill […]

The Arts Desk’s weekly picks for television, movies, music and more   By IQRA AHMAD — arts@theaggie.org Song: “Lady Love” by Thee Sacred Souls (2022)    This gorgeous song is a soulful melody that captures the deep longing and desire for a second chance at love. With a smooth, vintage-inspired sound, characteristic of Thee Sacred […]

The budding indie-pop artist kicks off her second headline tour following the release of new EP, “Bug”    By SAVANNAH ANNO — arts@theaggie.org   On May 1, musical artist Alix Page arrived in San Francisco to perform at Rickshaw Stop, a 4,000-square-foot venue that has hosted artists like Billie Eilish, The 1975 and Charli XCX […]