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Dean: The Lean, Mean Comedy Machine

Since “losing his stand-up virginity,” Garcia has gone on to perform over forty times, including a performance last Tuesday on campus in Kennedy Commons, where he did a forty-five minute set.

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The Big Short: The Most Important Film Of The Year

The 2016 election boils down to the group Americans find more dangerous: poor, brown people or rich, white people. Trump has built a case for the latter. That clementine-colored windbag whips up racist fury with half-baked, blistering attacks on immigrants, refugees and Muslims who haven’t really done anything.

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Kygo Keeps It Chill While Bringing the Heat

He pioneered tropical house, the poppy sub-genre of EDM which slows things down for a more Caribbean beach party feel. And recently, the not-so-long-ago bedroom producer became the fastest artist to hit one billion streams on Spotify.

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Iguanas, Toygers and Chinchillas Oh My!

Humans domesticated dogs 15,000 years ago. The pseudo-wolves found nuzzling and cuddling for scraps of meat easier than the hassle of hunting. Humans have since monkeyed with the genetics of a bunch of beasts for a bunch of purposes, but have boosted the diversity of canines with a special fervor.

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The Hateful Eight Explores Nostalgia and Race

Going to the movies isn’t what it used to be. People used to dress up to go to the theater. They donned their finest suits, dresses and hats to commemorate the occasion. It was grand. It was an event. Moviegoing was revered.

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Highly Casual Corner: The Relatable Selfishness of Hotline Bling

Drake poured a dumptruck of cement around the foundations of his stardom with “Hotline Bling.” In the delightfully self-indulgent music video, Drake executes alone-in-your-bedroom dance moves, shimmies in glowing interdimensional gaps and nestles into the convexities and concavities of cartoonishly thick women.

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Highly Casual Corner: EDM is the Best Bet for Biebs

Bieber became enviable as Youtube’s first bonafide star, flipping some pre-pubescent covers into a spot under Usher’s cologned, leather wing. His seven-song debut EP, “My World” went platinum. All seven songs charted. No other musician has done that on their first try.

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Finding Hope During the Great Depression

Income inequality is at a higher level now than during the Great Depression. So during Santa Clara’s production of Clifford Odet’s 1935 play, “Awake and Sing!,” audiences can find striking similarities between themselves and a struggling three-generation Jewish American family in the 1930s Bronx.

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Hapa Cup of Sugar Explores Being Biracial in the Bay Area

Historically, “hapa” referred to someone who was half-white and half-Pacific Islander, though these days it simply means “biracial.” Martinez herself is hapa (half-Mexican, half-Filipino) and soon after learning the word, Martinez came up with the title of her play “Hapa Cup of Sugar,” which is a reflection of Marissa’s experiences growing up biracial in the Bay Area.

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Metalachi Kills During Day of the Dead Show

Dia de Los Muertos and metal music both celebrate death. So Metalachi, “The World’s First and Only Heavy Metal Mariachi Band,” made an appropriate headliner last Friday at the Ritz in Downtown San Jose. The band pumps out suave, yet worshipful mushings of the two genres.

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