Arts & Culture

The Arts Desks’ weekly picks for movies, books, music and television shows Television: “Hollywood” on Netflix Hollywood is a miniseries that fantasizes about the LGBTQ experience the 1950s never gave actors. The story follows Jack Castello, a World War II veteran, who moves to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career with Ace Studios and […]

Focus your breath to focus your life “To think we are too stressed to train the mind, is like thinking that our head hurts too much to take an aspirin” (Headspace). When this was said to me during a guided meditation from the wellness app Headspace recently, it moved me for the first time in […]

Class, social networks during COVID-19 In-person classes and campus buildings have been closed for more than half of Spring Quarter. Some students stayed in Davis while others packed up and headed home. Either way, students’ lifestyles have drastically changed, and they’re trying to adjust to modified social networks and classroom experiences.  Sally Ellberg, a fourth-year […]

It must be said. Disclaimer: Before you disagree or get upset, I have, like, really incredible taste in music. Also, I took a class called “Intro To World Music” so, yeah… I know what I’m talking about. Plus my Glee playlist has 12 followers. “Forget You (Glee Cast Version)” vs. “Forget You” by CeeLo Green […]

Preservation of innocence of child actors while simultaneously hypersexualizing their every move creates vicious cycle Child actress Millie Bobby Brown sparked controversy at the 26th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards over what she was wearing. Only 15 at the time, Brown was dressed in a low-cut Louis Vuitton coat-dress outfit. While some took to Twitter […]

If I could charm the guys at my local In-N-Out to sneak some free fries in my order, how hard could it be to become extremely close to the most desirable and famous people in the country? There comes a time in every person’s life when they are called to do something higher. Many go […]

Staying six-feet apart in the streets and in the sheets Sex is a highly taboo subject in American culture. We would rather use euphemisms like “sleeping around” than that one syllable, three-letter word to avoid judgemental eyebrow raises from the stranger next to you.  But I’ll just go ahead and take advantage of its lexical […]

The Arts Desks’ weekly picks for movies, books, music and television shows Movie: “The Half Of It” dir. Alice Wu  Wallflower Ellie Chu spends her high school days writing papers for her peers in exchange for some extra cash. When a dim jock with a heart of gold, Paul Munsky, offers Ellie $50 to write […]

Exploring the possibilities of the music tracking website There’s a sense of mystery surrounding one’s musical habits. Sure, you know more or less what genres and albums you’ve been loving lately, but the actual statistics often prompt some sobering realizations. Even with the stats, I can hardly believe that I: a) have listened to “Pure […]

Like something out of a warehouse in early 2000s East Berlin. Do you remember the first time you heard something that would change everything? One can only imagine the sensation of Beatlemania, of experiencing Woodstock, of living in the Bronx during the rise of hip-hop. There is a palpable sense of weight, of a heftiness […]

Historic moments of political upheaval, social unrest marked by era-defining music  Singer-songwriter Alicia Keys debuted her new song “Good Job” during a CNN virtual town hall on April 24. Originally written for the personal heroes in her own life, Keys rebranded the song as an ode to the first responders and others who stepped up […]

Underlying implications of fads, changes over generations As a materialistic nation, embedded in American culture is a want for what we don’t have. Fads come and go, but their existence embodies memories of the past, specifically our childhood. Seeing that the majority of current undergraduate students are Generation Z, these post-millennials experience an “inside joke” […]