Daily Cal Weekender

Daily Cal Weekender The Weekender is the Daily Cal's online culture magazine. We strive to add to the discussions being had in and about the Berkeley and Bay Area communities.

The Weekender is The Daily Californian's online culture magazine. We make social, political and cultural commentaries about the Berkeley and Bay Area communities through various types of writing and art in the hopes of contributing to the larger discourse about these issues being had all over the world.

❗️Exciting Announcement❗️In an effort to make sure The Weekender is covering the culture of Berkeley as best we can, we ...
02/27/2025

❗️Exciting Announcement❗️
In an effort to make sure The Weekender is covering the culture of Berkeley as best we can, we are accepting submissions of personal essays, fiction and poems by non-Daily Cal writers to be published on our website!! Submissions are due by midnight on March 17th. We’re so excited to see what you all come up with!
Click the link in our bio to apply and for more information!

“I don’t want a dead memorial.” —Madison RojasRead Madison’s introspective poem, written in response to W.H. Auden’s Poe...
01/27/2025

“I don’t want a dead memorial.” —Madison Rojas

Read Madison’s introspective poem, written in response to W.H. Auden’s Poem ‘In Memory of W.B. Yeats’. Link in bio!

“Between gloved hands, my winner held / his trophy high before he took / me by the hip and gave a kiss, / a bloody stain...
01/27/2025

“Between gloved hands, my winner held / his trophy high before he took / me by the hip and gave a kiss, / a bloody stain of victory.“ —Logan Roscoe

Read Logan’s poem, link in bio!

“Nearly nothing remains of my childhood, only rubble and ash. My home is ablaze, my most valuable memories scorched. My ...
01/27/2025

“Nearly nothing remains of my childhood, only rubble and ash. My home is ablaze, my most valuable memories scorched. My ability to remember the golden haze of my upbringing in my idyllic pretend village is reduced to a painful mental strain.” —Jolie Field

Read Jolie’s tribute beautiful to her hometown. Link in bio.

The Weekender writes features too! Check them out 💚 Link in bio
12/10/2024

The Weekender writes features too! Check them out 💚 Link in bio

“As the housing market stands, plenty of young Americans have abandoned the hope of owning their own homes. But the desi...
11/22/2024

“As the housing market stands, plenty of young Americans have abandoned the hope of owning their own homes. But the desire for such remains. For many, this means pretending to be a prospective homebuyer on the likes of Zillow or Realtor.com.“

Check out Logan’s feature. Link in bio!

“Something shifted in me one night, a particularly hot and wet and cruel one. A dark and sticky molar plucked right from...
11/19/2024

“Something shifted in me one night, a particularly hot and wet and cruel one. A dark and sticky molar plucked right from July’s mouth.“

Check out Angela’s short story. Link in bio!

“Reorienting syllables to fit the conventions of the language that lies over my existing vocabulary is an iterative, fam...
11/14/2024

“Reorienting syllables to fit the conventions of the language that lies over my existing vocabulary is an iterative, familiar process for me. I speak Pennsylvania Dutch and I’m learning Standard German, the linguistic ancestor of my language.“

—Link in bio.

“Too much honesty hides in that corner of my closet, and it’s past time to clean my clothes in the washer, and my mind t...
11/12/2024

“Too much honesty hides in that corner of my closet, and it’s past time to clean my clothes in the washer, and my mind through writing: Laundry day, after its hiatus, has caught up to me.”

—Link in Bio

“I am so sorry I ever pretended to be sunlight / I am the furthest thing from it.”read more from through the link in ou...
02/11/2023

“I am so sorry I ever pretended to be sunlight / I am the furthest thing from it.”

read more from through the link in our bio.
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Applications for the Daily Cal are now open! Please visit apply.dailycal.org for more details about joining our editoria...
01/28/2023

Applications for the Daily Cal are now open! Please visit apply.dailycal.org for more details about joining our editorial and business departments. Applications are due Friday, Feb. 10, at 11:59 p.m.

Final issue of fall ‘22 is online! 🎉 So many great pieces went into this issue, maybe give them a read to relax after ...
12/17/2022

Final issue of fall ‘22 is online! 🎉 So many great pieces went into this issue, maybe give them a read to relax after finals? ☺️📖Thanks so much to all our amazing editors and staff writers this semester! Can’t wait to catch up with yall after winter break. ✌️☃️❄️

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