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A Viewer’s Guide to The Voice

Mar 29, 2012
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As a self-acknowledged sports geek, I love power rankings. The act of picking a pecking order always fascinates me.   I mean, I love music, too, but besides the singing and the blind audition process, that’s probably the other biggest reason I love NBC’s The Voice…it gives me plenty of opportunities to make power rankings. [...]

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EPIC MAFIA!

Feb 24, 2012

So while on my retreat for my professional fraternity this past weekend, we decided to play a thoroughly epic game. The name of this game is: epic mafia. I’m sure all of you have heard of the group game called mafia, where you have your basic roles of townsperson/villager, cop/sheriff, doctor/healer, mafia, and god/the narrator. In this [...]

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“Masters of Venice” at the de Young Museum

Feb 05, 2012

    The de Young Museum in San Francisco is the only venue to feature fifty paintings by Venetian old masters primarily from the sixteen century, including Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto, Mantegna, and many more. All of these paintings are currently on loan from the Gemäldegalerie of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.   Currently, this is the [...]

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Telegraph Treasures: Evanescence at Fox Theater, October 10

Oct 28, 2011

After nearly a five-year hiatus, Evanescence has returned in October 2011 with the release of their third and newest self-titled album, Evanescence. Now, while their music is profound, and has been so ever since their debut in 2003, I’m not here to review their album. I would only regurgitate all of the wondrous praise that [...]

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Q&A with Seth Rogen and Will Reiser

Sep 23, 2011

So what is there to do on a Tuesday afternoon? Go to lecture, catch up on assigned reading, sit around a table with Seth Rogen and Will Reiser…oh wait, I did that! You read right, I, being the lucky Caliber journalist that I am, was invited to attend a roundtable among a variety of media outlets [...]

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The Beginning of Time…

Sep 22, 2011

Hello everyone at UC Berkeley, the world, and wherever you hail from! My name is Jo, a freshman at UC Berkeley, and this is my very first post. Griffin, Caliber’s blog manager, is wonderful enough to grant me my own column, and here I am! You may have read in my bio that I am [...]

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Finals vs. Bruno Mars, primate style

May 07, 2011 4 Comments

Dead week will officially be over in one day. In 24 hours, all excuses, procrastination strategies and lazy day plans will be invalid, and finals week will be upon us. Sure, these past seven days have been great: leisurely café study days followed by wine night, Dexter Marathon, Beat-the Clock and Cinco de Mayo. But [...]

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Tea and Treble: Two Weeks of Fauxchella, Countless Memories (Reviews)

Apr 24, 2011 2 Comments

Most of those who ventured to Indio’s Empire Polo Field last weekend came back home claiming, “Coachella changed my life.” Exactly what this means I might only learn once I manage to attend the massive three-day music festival myself, but until then I can only gather my life-changing experiences from my time right here in [...]

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Of Frogs and Bears — Okkervil River or why I still love American music

Apr 14, 2011 2 Comments

Because I recently read (on this very blog) that today’s music has no lyrics, and heard (from a lovely-looking musician kid) that American music was simply the worst, I feel it is my duty to now tell you about Okkervil River. Because they might simply save your life, or at least restore your faith in [...]

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US Royalty: An Empire to be Reckoned With

Apr 10, 2011 1 Comment

Congress and indie rock n’ roll. The two subjects do not mix together. But for US Royalty, an up-and-coming band, it’s a juxtaposition that describes their beginnings. Hailing from Washington DC, the four piece indie band were once public servants working in governmental jobs until they decided to give it all up to pursue the [...]

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