UC Berkeley students celebrate election results on Sproul
UC Berkeley students celebrate election results on Sproul. They watched the results live on a large projector.
Election 2012: National and state races
2012 Election Viewing Parties with Berkeley Mayoral Candidates
Two major election viewing parties were held by Berkeley mayoral candidates November 6. These parties consist mainly of people standing around, eating and drinking, and checking screens for the slow release of local election results. Incumbent Tom Bates won the mayoral election.
Photo Gallery: Election 2012
November 6, 2012 in Berkeley began with voters hitting the polls as early as 7am. Throughout the day, Berkeley residents and students stopped by their local polling places to cast their votes and have their say in national and local issues. While results slowly started rolling in around 6pm, at Read More…
San Francisco DocFest returns Nov. 8-21
The San Francisco Documentary Film Festival is back, screening films in San Francisco and Berkeley from Nov. 8-21. Visit sfindie.com for showtimes and tickets. Working Class Working Class” is loosely based on Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities” in that there are two cities (San Francisco and San Diego), brief Read More…
Fran Lebowitz goes road-tripping
In New York City, sometime in the early hours of October 30, a car made its way uptown. The streets were unusually empty for that hour (or any hour in NYC). A hurricane was in town and instead of the benign ambivalence with which the city usually greets new arrivals, Read More…
‘Lincoln’ relives Abe’s legacy
If, in some deluded haze, you decided to read every biography of Abraham Lincoln, at a rate of one book per week, it would take you roughly 22 years to finish. As of February 2012, there have been approximately 15,000 books published about the beloved, accomplished and ultimately perplexing 16th Read More…
Exhibit spans Jasper Johns’ catalogue
Jasper Johns is an American iconoclast. Deftly maneuvering between different styles, but never committing to just one, it is obvious from the SFMOMA’s current exhibition of his works that Johns was inspired by all facets of life. The exhibit, “Jasper Johns: Seeing with the Mind’s Eye,” is a retrospective of Read More…
Sack’s ‘Hallucinations’ tires
In “Hallucinations,” Oliver Sacks once again plays the role of the encyclopedic doctor of neurological phenomena. His signature way of telling strange tales of medicine fit for television hospital dramas hasn’t changed, but his topic has shifted to a small degree. He explores hallucinations and the human brain in his Read More…
Cat Fancies: The truthiness of art
Memory can never be entirely accurate. The further you progress into the future, the more you mentally leave behind. The identity of your past self is buried under your current identity, like how the width of my past thighs is buried under the width of my current thighs. And I Read More…