Christmas

The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus performed its annual Holiday Spectacular on Dec. 11, bringing warmth and joy to the eager audience.

When you disappear, none of us notice until you’re gone. Turning the corner, we make a left and descend the stairs to the parking lot. It’s littered with vehicles, waste and gum on the concrete. Someone is screaming, I don’t know who. Maybe we’re all screaming all at once. 

Baking is the perfect excuse to take a much needed mental health break from all that studying and it helps us get into that wonderful holiday spirit! I don’t know about you all, but I’m an absolute sucker for ginger, cinnamon and anything else holiday spice – hence the following gingerbread cookie recipe.

Netflix’s “Falling for Christmas” follows in the celebrated snow-dusted footprints of the “A Christmas Prince” trilogy and “The Princess Switch” duology. Each film attempts to answer one of Zeno’s lesser-known paradoxes: how can Netflix, an Academy-Award-winning film studio, distribute a hate-bait Hallmark-style Christmas classic?

Let’s be honest, finding the perfect gift for someone can be one of the most stressful and time-consuming tasks. You might spend days, maybe even weeks, searching for a gift that will hopefully make that special person grow the biggest smile in the world, only for them to be slightly excited or even disappointed when they receive it.

“Yeah, it was a turkey alright. Everyone saw it, I mean it’s not like Sather Gate was empty at 9 a.m., there were plenty of people going to class,” Grinch said. “We students stand with the turkey. I’m actually a part of the ‘Students Against Early Christmas’ group on campus. We’re just a bunch of people tired of Michael Bublé.”

Instead of radiating the warmth of the star atop a Christmas tree, the album feels more like a tarnished, long-forgotten ornament sitting in the corner of the attic.

Former Berkeley High School teacher Frank Schooley died at age 83 on Aug. 10 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s Disease.

These suggestions are generic enough that they’re not specific to any person, but niche enough that people likely don’t already have them.

If I discover my ideals and stay true to them in my work and our study, I’ll be able to look back on myself each new year and know that, no matter what, I worked for something worthwhile.