Arts & Culture

The Arts Desk’s weekly picks for movies, books, music, television shows Book: “Big Little Lies” by Liane Moriarty If you are a fan of the hit HBO show “Big Little Lies” (which if you read my last Culture Corner article you would know boasts a “stacked cast, incredible editing and possibly the best title sequence […]

The one-act show discusses relevant topics of race and police brutality Catalyst: A Theatre Think Tank will be premiering the one-act show “This Is How It Happened” written by playwright and actor Anthony D’Juan. The free show will be streaming on Catalyst’s website, where anyone can register to watch on Oct. 15 and Oct. 16 […]

Reviewing the singer’s discography after a recent return to her country roots With Taylor Swift’s most recent performance at the Academy of Country Music Awards (ACM Awards), people might wonder “how did she get here?” In her most recent years she’s switched over to pop, baffling most of her long-term fans with the sudden switch […]

The other side of the screen isn’t as simple as you’d think Deciding to order food from a delivery app is simple. You try to rationalize the extra cost and tap a few buttons to place your order. The process is so streamlined that from the customers perspective, it seems like a quick and easy—albeit […]

Students practice crystal healing in efforts to stay positive, supplement other religions and expand cultural understanding Healing crystals have made an impact on student culture, with their popularity steadily escalating as traditional religious practices undergo a change with college students. Crystal stones are believed to have many different uses and are typically described as having […]

Five options for your fashionable, yet environmentally friendly needs  In the middle of a pandemic it may be difficult to stay focused on other life-threatening situations currently going on. Nevertheless, it is crucial to keep doing so. Pollution from the coronavirus has severely impacted the environment. Now, clean up crews are finding plastic hand sanitizer […]

Maybe YOU’RE cringe. Ever think about that? *”Riverdale” spoilers ahead* Perhaps my brain has melted from constantly consuming media for six months, but out of the countless TV shows isolation has coerced me to watch, none have impacted me quite like “Riverdale.” Over the course of three weeks, I watched every minute of all 76 […]

For all the gamer girls out there Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is a multiplayer crossover fighting game. It takes popular characters from franchises and lets the player battle them. The series has existed for almost two decades and is now the second best selling Nintendo Switch game. My initial experiences with the game, like so […]

“Petals for Armor” pulled up her roots, but she’s headed for the sky Paramore lead singer Hayley Willams released her debut solo album on May 8. The teenage punk icon has turned over a new petal, silently expressing her loud message of self-liberation through pain and self-confrontation. The teenage punk-rock icon has shed her tough […]

First as tragedy, then as farce I wake up as I always do a bit groggy but nonetheless eager to see what the day has in store for me. I walk downstairs, cut up some fruit, pour a cup of tea and if weather permits, go for a short walk, perhaps even dipping my feet […]

Wellman, Shields, Social Sciences, Olson have more to them than meets the eye In the first article I published for The California Aggie, I wrote “among the stucco and concrete box-like structures that riddle the campus, students are hard-pressed to find a building that evokes anything but a shrug.” I would like to make this […]

The generation with the future in their hands and their sacrifices getting there  The year 2020 was intended to be one of new beginnings. But as we all know, fate decided otherwise. All of a sudden, the world did a 180 and changed its axis of normalcy without warning. Unequipped for such life-altering circumstances, we […]