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A BART strike has once again been averted — this time until Oct. 10 — following a court ordered cooling off period requested by Gov. Jerry Brown and granted Sunday. Read More…
Sports
Fall training camp updates: race for starting quarterback is impossibly close
Fall training camp updates: lack of pads hampers Cal defense for now
Without pads on, the defense hasn’t been able to shine in the same way that the offense has. But it’s still had its moments. The first name that comes to mind is Kameron Jackson. The junior has been on every receiver’s short list of toughest defensive backs to face so Read More…
The new era of Cal football is the real deal
A new era in Cal football really has begun. For months, the talk has been about how open new Cal coach Sonny Dykes is. How he’s committed to transparency. How he wants to instill a sense of community in the team. How he wants to revitalize academics. My response? “I’ll Read More…
A&E
AlunaGeorge: Body Music
‘Lovelace’ doesn’t go deep enough
Like a lot of porn, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s “Lovelace” is anticlimactic, aimless and extremely unsexy. The film follows the young Linda Boreman (Amanda Seyfried), better known as “Linda Lovelace,” who left her repressive Catholic parents (played by Robert Patrick and Sharon Stone, unrecognizable in an excellent yet entirely Read More…
Nun who kissed Elvis Presley writes autobiography
Somewhere in a cloister, there is a nun who kissed Elvis Presley. There must be some people in the world who live a life without surprises. Most of us, however, find that life unfolds in ways we never expected, showing us that absolutely anything is possible. Mother Dolores Hart of Read More…
Opinion
Bay Area Transit
For richer or for poorer
They came to me in the middle of the night. They were young and beautiful and dressed up like they were about to go out. I had about an hour’s warning, and their knock on the door was light so as to wake no one who wasn’t already up. When Read More…
Open contradictions
Earlier this summer, The Daily Calfornian wrote an editorial in support of the nationwide open access movement, which aims to make results of government-funded research freely available to the public online. On July 24, the UC Academic Senate proudly announced that beginning in November, anyone will be able to access Read More…
From The Blogs
Turkish coffee and fortune telling
Being an avid coffee drinker, my goal is to try coffee from every country I visit, and international coffees in the States also easily grab my attention. When my dear Turkish friend Semih asked me if I wanted to experience Turkish coffee one night at 11 p.m., I desperately wished Read More…
We Spy: a deer in daylight
The clouds in they sky were giving way to sunshine when we saw a deer on a sidewalk on Northside. As you probably know, Northside blends into the Berkeley Hills. The trees — elm, pine, and liquid amber — are taller than most buildings. The experience of walking down some Read More…
Hidden inspiration behind songs
Good music often provides the perfect background songs for our ordinary daily activities. Music also allows us to relive a story narrated by lyrics in our imagination or allows us to escape to the beats and sounds of different instruments. By making some songs very personal to us, we often Read More…
Sports in Brief — August 11, 2013
Valerie Arioto leads Team USA to gold in Mayor’s Cup Cal softball alum Valerie Arioto is stealing all the spotlight recently. The U.S. women’s national softball team took home its first gold medal of the summer on Friday at the Mayor’s Cup in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Led by Arioto’s Read More…