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Fans of house, trap, EDM and hip-hop flocked to the Treasure Island Music Festival (courtesy of Josh Withers).

Treasure Island Music Festival features a variety of awesome acts

Dylan Grosz
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Nov. 9, 2018
Speculative fiction is set in "The Uncanny Valley," where robots resemble humans (CHRISTOPHER DOMBRES/Flickr).

Speculative Fiction: the suspension of disbelief in “humanized” characters

Shana E. Hadi
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Nov. 8, 2018
Lisa Spinelli (Maggie Gyllenhaal) mentors a precocious poet in "The Kindergarten Teacher" (courtesy of Netflix).

“The Kindergarten Teacher” challenges audiences

Juan Fueyo-Gomez
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Nov. 7, 2018
Chicago rapper Noname performs in 2016 at the first annual REC., a music festival in Rotterdam (RENE PASET/Flickr).

Noname finds identity on sophomore album ‘Room 25’

Caroline Hallee
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Nov. 5, 2018
Gabriella Momah and Megan Timpane play lovers in Hansol Jung's "Cardboard Piano" (courtesy of Lois Tema).

‘Cardboard Piano’ crafts a beautiful queer tragedy

Olivia Popp
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Nov. 5, 2018
Courtney Flores' costumes reflect the 1950s setting of Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" (COURTNEY FLORES/Stanford TAPS).

Dream deferred? TAPS + BLACKstage’s “A Raisin in the Sun” is a dream fulfilled

Chloe Wintersteen
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Nov. 1, 2018
In Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights," Heathcliff is a haunted antihero (ZINC CARAS/Flickr).

Culture and the occult: Eerie reads for Halloweek

Claire Francis
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Nov. 1, 2018
Arts & Life
The Reads beat recommends some spine-chilling stories for Halloween (BRIAN HERZOG/Flickr).

Bewitching Halloween reads

Arts & Life Reads beat writers, Sofia Schlozman, Olivia Manes, Carly Taylor, Scott Stevens, Mark York and Shana E. Hadi
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Oct. 31, 2018
Emma Stone and Jonah Hill play a plethora of different personas in "Maniac" (courtesy of Netflix).

‘Maniac’ considers the mysteries of the mind

Emilia Diaz-Magaloni
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Oct. 31, 2018
"The Haunting of Hill House" is based on Shirley Jackson's classic novel (courtesy of Netflix).

‘The Haunting of Hill House’ combines scares with compelling characters

Kaycee Branche
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Oct. 30, 2018
"Contact Warhol" demonstrates that the artist's photography inspired paintings like "Hammer and Sickle" (courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art and the Andy Warhol Foundation).

Andy Warhol in our minds and in photographic film

Chasity Hale
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Oct. 29, 2018
Young Thug is one of the most talented trap musicians working today (DAN GARCIA/Flickr).

Young Thug’s ‘On the Rvn’ is tremendous trap music

Christina Macintosh
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Oct. 29, 2018
Ben (Cassidy Brown) and Daniel (Jomar Tagatac) in "You Mean to Do Me Harm." (Courtesy of Ken Levin)

‘You Mean to Do Me Harm’ challenges bias and perception at SF Playhouse

Olivia Popp
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Oct. 29, 2018
The San Francisco Opera presents Puccini's "Tosca" (CORY WEAVER/San Francisco Opera).

Puccini’s ‘Tosca’ is melodramatic and moving

Amir Abou-Jaoude
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Oct. 25, 2018
Although it is commonly cited as a great love story, Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" really isn't a romance (MARK YORK/The Stanford Daily).

‘Romeo and Juliet’ Is NOT a Love Story: CHANGE MY MIND!

Mark York
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Oct. 25, 2018
"Studio 54" focuses on the famous nightclub, which was frequented by celebrities like Liza Minnelli, Bianca Jagger, Andy Warhol and Halston (ADAM SCULL/Zeitgeist Films).

“Studio 54” is a study of an (in)famous 70s nightclub

Simone Zhu
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Oct. 24, 2018
In "Reader, Come Home," Tufts professor Maryanne Wolf considers literacy in the digital age (TODD CHENEY/UCLA).

‘Reader, Come Home’ discusses the difficulty of staying literate

Scott Stevens
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Oct. 24, 2018
Marlene Dietrich is "The Scarlet Empress" in Josef von Sternberg's 1934 film (courtesy of The Criterion Collection and Universal Pictures).

Dietrich is an extraordinary actress in ‘The Scarlet Empress’

Amir Abou-Jaoude
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Oct. 23, 2018
Fifty years after its release, Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" is as odd and as awesome as ever (courtesy of Dmitri Kessel/Getty Images).

‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ is a bizarre, epic journey

Noah Howard
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Oct. 22, 2018
Drake's summer was suffused with controversy (courtesy of Anton Mak and Wikimedia Commons).

Drake combines success with social media spectacle

Jacob Kuppermann
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Oct. 22, 2018
The Stanford Daily

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