And Joan Baez, Adam Cohen, and 8,500 other people. A night in Berkeley, California could lead to just about anything. From students of the University of California, Berkeley leaving their campus’ various libraries after night fall or when the sun rises, to residents and visitors stopping at any of the plethora of restaurants, or other … Continue reading A Sunday night in Berkeley with Lana Del Rey →

No other pop artist has pushed this music genre’s boundaries to their extremes and beyond in the last decade than Charli XCX. Period. Not only is this a fact because her latest projects in the last two years (“Number 1 Angel,” “Pop 2,” and “Charli”) have achieved critical acclaim from various music publications, but also … Continue reading Charli XCX teleports Oakland to her pop dystopian ‘Charli’ and beyond →

The #MeToo Movement has revolutionized what it means today to be a survivor and victim of sexual assault and sexual harassment. Voices that never have had the credibility or the benefit of the doubt to be heard are now more likely to be listened to. Predators that have never been held accountable or punished for … Continue reading The #MeToo Movement owes everything and nothing to the media →

Power, specifically held by white people and white power itself, are two forces that seem to permeate all through our lives today, regardless if we want to see it or not. It radiates from The White House, then spreads to the oh so important Middle America (and everywhere else), until it infects our social media … Continue reading ‘Succession’ entertains and transcends its #WhitePeopleProblems →

I, just like thousands of other people, spent the past weekend flooding in and out of Golden Gate Park for the 11th Annual Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival. With headlining acts like Paul Simon, Twenty One Pilots, and Childish Gambino, it is no surprise that the park was at its fullest each night when … Continue reading The (Not So) Hidden Gems of Outside Lands 2019 →

Death is finite. It is a clear, final absolution to our lives. It is the period of periods, the endings of endings. Dying, however, is not. Dying can be a long winding road filled with debilitating turns and curves to a destination you may not want to go to that, once reached, will leave you … Continue reading Lulu Wang’s ‘The Farewell’ flips Western notions on death →

“Woo-ah” is what is written on multiple people’s shirts, on the front of their baseball caps, and is what is enthusiastically pronounced to a videographer’s camera, all in the line outside the nightclub Mezzanine in San Francisco for the first of two rescheduled sold out Kim Petras shows for her Broken Tour, in support of … Continue reading Kim Petras dazzles in San Francisco with her ever evolving pop music →

To see yourself on screen means to also see your life and those in it on screen. In the STARZ original series Vida, it is those in East Los Angeles and Latinx familias everywhere that are portrayed in the series’ highly bingeable two seasons.  The show’s premise revolves around two adult Mexican-American sisters Emma Hernandez … Continue reading ‘Vida’ gives us life and so much more →

       TV has always been a constant figure in my life. It was there for me in middle school in the form of Ugly Betty in the episode where everyone goes to the Bahamas for a photo shoot and they run into Shakira. It was there for me in high school in the … Continue reading My 13 Summer shows that kept Me Afloat →