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Photo of Geoff Sobelle '97 at his Stanford Live dinner party show: "FOOD."

A gargantuan table, but no one is fed: ‘FOOD’ is a spectacle

Rani Chor
  •  
Feb. 10, 2025
Reads
Author Gheed El Bizri in front of a shelf, smiling at the camera

In ‘Les Obsessions D’un Poète,’ Gheed El Bizri ’25 questions art, dreams and obsessions

Catherine Wu
  •  
Feb. 10, 2025
Music
A graphic of a Grammy surrounded by outstretched hands.

The 2025 Grammys cements itself as the best in years

Madisyn Cunningham
  •  
Feb. 9, 2025
Music
Bad Bunny experiments with simpler productions and cultural themes while still delivering high-energy bangers. (Photo courtesy of Glenn Francis)

Bad Bunny’s full-circle moment: The heart and depth of ‘DeBí TiRAR MáS FOToS’

Joanne dePierre
  •  
Feb. 9, 2025
Culture
Head shot of Rachel Baker, Director of Communications at Stanford Surgery and host of the Stanford Department of Surgery podcast “Scrubcast.”

Stanford’s ‘Scrubcast’ podcast: Stories of surgeons behind the scrubs

Catherine Wu
  •  
Feb. 6, 2025
Reads
Head-and-shoulder portrait of radiologist Heike Daldrup-Link smiling at the camera.

Meet Heike Daldrup-Link: Radiologist and author of medical mystery novels

Catherine Wu
  •  
Feb. 6, 2025
Reads
Interior of Feldman's Books with lots of books and eclectic decorations.

‘A pillar of the community’: Feldman’s Books, Menlo Park’s creative hub 

Sanaya Robinson-Shah
  •  
Feb. 5, 2025
Music
a digital drawing of a cassette tape

Made a mixtape, hope you like it: Courtney Love from Hole 

Amanda Altarejos
  •  
Feb. 4, 2025
Events
Novelist, storyteller and member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma Tommy Orange spoke at the Stanford Faculty Club on the pretenders in American history. (Photo: CAYDEN GU/The Stanford Daily)

Tommy Orange presents on writing and pretending

Cate Burtner
  •  
Feb. 3, 2025
Music
A vinyl with the title of column, "Pulse," and a drawing of two women about to kiss on it

Pulse: ‘Wicked’: Holding space for difference

Madisyn Cunningham
  •  
Feb. 3, 2025
Screen
A movie director's sign with gender symbols on it with text "HER POV."

Her POV: ‘The Last Showgirl’ is a moving glimpse of an artist’s journey

Blyss Cleveland
  •  
Feb. 2, 2025
Screen
characters from Smile 2, Dune 2, Didi, Anora and a monument from Civil War serve as the backdrop for "2024 movies ranked" in black text

Best of 2024 ranked: Five movies that made me feel things

Dyllan Han
  •  
Jan. 30, 2025
Culture
Dancers in "The Nutcracker" pose on stage en pointe.

How the Cardinal Ballet Company brings ‘The Nutcracker’ to life year after year

Kaelyn Tan
  •  
Jan. 30, 2025
Reads
Judith Butler speaks on stage in front of a large crowd.

Feminist philosopher Judith Butler interrogates the novelistic form

Dyllan Han
  •  
Jan. 29, 2025
Culture
John Singer Sargent painting of the four daughters. The youngest one is sitting in the forefront, and the other three are standing in the back.

​​​​​​​​Looking and Feeling: The psychological intensity of an unusual Parisian portrait 

Weili Jin
  •  
Jan. 29, 2025
Screen
A woman stands at a window with the shadow of a hand on her face and "Nosferatu" written as text.

‘Nosferatu’ (2024) marries the beautiful and the grotesque

Cate Burtner
  •  
Jan. 28, 2025
Culture
A hand wafting through illuminated mist.

Stanford students bring original show ‘Book of Dew’ to San Francisco

Saara Piplani
  •  
Jan. 28, 2025
Screen
Four figures loom over sand dunes with the text "Dune: Prophecy" written over the image.

‘Dune: Prophecy’ Season 1 is a bold, but uneven journey into the origins of the Bene Gesserit

Zora Hudson
  •  
Jan. 27, 2025
Culture
Jasmine Jimison and Max Cauthorn in MacMillan's Manon

S.F. Ballet’s ‘Manon’ tells an eerily familiar story of poverty and depravity

Linda Liu
  •  
Jan. 26, 2025
Culture
Members of the sian American Activities Center

Endowment by Will Hsu ’98 and Angie Hsu ’96 empowers Asian American students

Catherine Wu
  •  
Jan. 23, 2025
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