It all began seven years ago when audiences witnessed a young Bruce Wayne falling through an abandoned well filled with bats. As the story goes, Wayne develops a phobia for the same animal that would come to symbolize the terror that he would inflict on Gotham City’s crime underworld. At Read More…
At its meeting Tuesday night, the Berkeley City Council voted to place the third phase of the West Berkeley Project — a controversial long-term plan that aims to expand the area’s retail and multi-use space — on the city’s November ballot despite public discontent. Read More…
The Berkeley City Council renewed approximately $199,296 in funding for annual YMCA fitness memberships for city employees at its meeting Tuesday night. Read More…
UCSF will begin looking at different ways to address its unique financial and administrative challenges with the approval of a new advisory board for the campus. Read More…
Life is Good — Nas’s tenth album and the final under his Def Jam contract — is not solely a breakup album. Though Nas holds ex-wife Kelis’ green wedding dress across his knee on the cover, it’s not. I assure you. When you’ve been in the game as long as Read More…
I found the heart of San Francisco. In fact, I went inside it. I took the 71 bus line down Haight Street and got off at Fillmore Street then walked to 218. After going through the glass door, there it was. Black and gray and twice my height, it had Read More…
Frank Ocean gets it. That’s really what it comes down to. At 24 years old, Ocean’s lyrical and musical depth far surpasses that of most of his R&B contemporaries. After joining shock-rap collective Odd Future and dropping a celebrated solo mixtape, Ocean scored front-row seats to Watch the Throne by Read More…
At its meeting Tuesday night the Berkeley City Council evaluated the latest proposal for the Rockridge neighborhood Safeway expansion, with councilmembers and residents advocating against the expansion. Read More…
Contrary to the cheap jokes that some people make about food in Ethiopia, Addis Ababa provides a wide range of cuisine and incredible traditional dishes that cannot be found in the states. The food serves as a vital component of people’s lives and traditions here, as the dishes contain many ingredients Read More…
The UC Board of Regents voted Wednesday to officially endorse Proposition 30, Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax initiative, and in doing so affirmed the tuition freeze afforded by the $125.4 million tuition buyout included in the recently passed state budget. Read More…
