Arts & Culture

Kid Cudi’s newest album continues common themes from his prior works in the Man on the Moon trilogy When I first heard Scott Mescudi’s, more commonly known as Kid Cudi’s, music, I was just a small, sad, yearning middle schooler. His top hit “Day N Nite” introduced many of us to his music, which eventually […]

CD Projekt Red’s latest game is unplayable, and it’s hard to be sure you’d want to play it anyway The anticipation for “Cyberpunk 2077” was intense, with 8 million pre-orders out of 13 million copies sold, more than half of those who bought “Cyberpunk 2077” did so before knowing if the game was worth playing. […]

More hits than misses for 2020’s holiday menu I have spent the last ten months in a small town that boasts two restaurants. Through ample free time and lack of places to go over the past few months, I have gotten acquainted with the Starbucks holiday menu. I feel it’s now my duty to pass […]

How Yerba Mate compares to coffee and which flavors attract students We’ve all been there—8 p.m. the night before a final, cramming as much as we can. Keeping us company is that familiar golden can popped open, steadily disappearing into the depths of our bellies in a desperate attempt to get some energy to finish […]

Music thrived in a year many would otherwise like to forget In the onset of isolation in March, it became clear that either this period of time would either give us masterpieces or some of the worst music ever made. There were definitely some duds (I’m looking at you Justin Bieber) but ultimately, 2020 was […]

The plastic surgery “Zoom boom” we least expected from COVID-19 Since the pandemic has started, there has been an increase in washing hands rigorously, eating healthier, purchasing exercise equipment and taking an interest in skin care. The COVID-19 pandemic has also seen an increased interest in plastic surgeries. People have been spending more time looking […]

How storytelling takes over in Taylor Swift’s new sister album Taylor Swift has done it again. A surprise release shocked fans when Swift shared the news about “evermore,” the sister album to her previous release “folklore.” The new album has the same whimsical vibes that fans grew to love with “folklore” and more songs written […]

Have you ever been online? “[re: Click],” a joint production between the UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance and the American Music Theatre Project at Northwestern University, adapted and directed by Margaret Laurena Kemp and Roger Ellis, gave its final performance of the year on Dec. 12. It’s an experimental piece of theater—performed entirely […]

The Arts Desk’s weekly picks for movies, books, music, television shows Movie: “Happiest Season” dir. by Clea DuVall (2020) Starring Kirsten Stewart, Alison Brie and Aubrey Plaza—to name a few from the star-studded cast—“Happiest Season” is about a woman who brings her girlfriend home for the holidays to a conservative family that is clueless about […]

Arts desk writer Jacob Anderson loves the Racoon Man—and you should too Raccoon connoisseurs out there need not be reminded of James Blackwood—the elderly Nova Scotian man who made his internet bones nearly a decade ago with a bucket of sliced hot dogs and several dozen feral (but rabies-free) raccoons on his property.  Since his […]

The “Breath of the Wild” prequel offers a much needed look into the history of Hyrule “Breath of the Wild” (BOTW) is undoubtedly one of the most popular games of all time. Despite the fact that it was released over three years ago, the open world exploration keeps it playable for unlimited hours. This came […]

Why “the more is merrier” doesn’t work out in this situation