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The captivating 2024 production of Our Monologues featured 24 different performances. Throughout the student-run show’s two-and-a-half-hour run time, it blended a combination of spoken word, music, and dance to explore a wide array of themes including gender, identity, race, friendship, and growing up.
“Because it’s a big high school, you don’t know who to ask for help, but so far, Berkeley has been doing a really great job. We have some great mentors and great co-leader teachers that have been helping me in guiding me in all of this crazy process,” Angie Soto, a first-year Spanish
“Nepo baby” is a modern term used to describe people who owe their success more to nepotism, which is family or personal connections, than to skill or merit.
Animation, as an industry, has faced a lot of change since the early days of shows like “Steamboat Willie.” These changes have manifested due to advances in both technology and, for better or for worse, workplace standards. The animation and VFX industry is a very lucrative one, currently valued at $181.3 billion with projected growth,
The 1970s saw the rise of an entirely new movie genre, quickly capturing the public’s attention. Movies from this genre began to feature Black casts and protagonists, challenging Hollywood’s history with predominantly white casting.
Berkeley High School senior Charlotte Lee mentioned her love for nature in Berkeley. “Up behind the Claremont, there’s this grove of eucalyptus trees,” she said, “It’s great.” She also shared her appreciation for the Berkeley Hills, “It’s really pretty up there, it’s a great place to go on hikes and stuff like that,” Lee said.
In 2007, J.K. Rowling had just released “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” the massively successful seventh and final installment of the Harry Potter series.
Families, friends, and fans of dance gathered in the Little Theater on Dec. 9 and 10 to watch Berkeley High School’s 2023 Dance Production Winter Showcase.
Of the many categories available on YouTube, family channels have consistently been one of the most popular. Channels like “The Ace Family,” “Family Fun Pack,” and “The Labrant Fam” all have over ten million subscribers.
South Berkeley locals may have heard of plans for new affordable housing units, which are to be built in the space that is now the parking lot of the Ashby BART station.
