Arts & Culture

“Treat People With Kindness” is not just a song off of Styles’ latest album, an ode about how he lives his life, navigates fame  Harry Styles released the music video for his latest single “Watermelon Sugar” on May 18. The opening title card explained that the video was “dedicated to touching,” then follows Styles at […]

How Telles found a passion for art, tigers  What began as a simple love for slap stickers in middle school blossomed into a small business in college. Thomas Telles, a third-year design major, finds that expressing his love for tigers and art is shown best through his work. He started his small business earlier this […]

Arts writer Caroline Rutten Zooms with Lillian Frances, talks debut album It has been a year since I last interviewed Lillian Frances, the brightly-colored synth-pop Davis artist. At the time, we met up at the Starbucks at University Mall: She was a force of energy from the moment she entered the coffee shop. Dressed in […]

This year’s theme for The California Aggie’s Literary Magazine was “In 100 Words or Less.” The Literary Magazine committee ultimately chose 17 student submissions to feature.  “LUSH”  By Jack Hyslop A chalky pink-blue bath bomb  falls ~plunk~ into the sea.  A modest tub yet comfy enough  to fit just you and me.  Its fizzle stops […]

Black students, Chancellor May, discuss facing discrimination, finding community In the ASUCD Winter 2019 Elections, Shondreya Landrum won a seat on the Senate table. The ASUCD Elections website, which uses a ranking system, asking students to rank their top choices — up to six people — in numerical order for Senate positions. At the time, […]

Can we find love online, or is it virtually impossible? If you’ve ever been romantically involved, you probably know what it’s like to get butterflies when someone flirts with you or gives you a certain look. And in this day and age, it’s not uncommon to experience this when you’re not even with the person […]

The Arts and Culture Desk (and a bonus!) shares our most impactful albums from this year Liz Jacobson, Arts and Culture Editor: “YHLQMDLG” by Bad Bunny Bad Bunny’s second studio album pays homage to reggaetón’s past and showcases its future with features by the genre’s legends and fellow Latin trap up-and-comers. The album’s title is […]

The iconic, trendsetting ‘90s sitcom is both revered, criticized today  The NBC sitcom “Friends,” which first aired in 1994 and ran for 10 seasons, was a hit from the start. The ensemble cast of six 20-somethings in New York City trying to figure out life resonated deeply with the American public. The series was nominated […]

The universal appeal of “Normal People” is captured both on paper, on screen  What is it that is so fascinating and so engrossing about the 2018 bestseller “Normal People” by Sally Rooney? Recently adapted by the BBC and Hulu as a hit limited series, the popularity of Rooney’s sophomore work has skyrocketed over the past […]

Like the characters, not emojis (＠_＠;) We are all familiar with emojis, the little pictures that communicate what words just can’t. Emoticons, on the other hand, are an often unappriecated art of communication where the icons made of keyboard characters are put together to resemble an image. Emoticons create a platform where user creativity shines. […]

A dystopian fiction: the mockingjay of reality The “Hunger Games” series gained immense popularity back in the 2010s — so much so that its dystopian fiction has clawed its way into reality. The gore and perverted essence that made the series so captivating may not be so appealing in real life. But if we observe […]

Exploring different television shows, movies that feature LGBT characters, storylines Television: “I Am Not Okay With This” Following the hype of “Stranger Things,” Netflix cast the popular Sophia Lillis to play Sydney Novak, a young teen struggling to cope with the dangers of high school, her sexuality and superpowers. Sydney, who is 17 and lives […]