Summing up an entire lifetime in a book seems either impossible or depressing. We hope that our lives cannot be compressed into a single volume. With her new collection of stories, “Dear Life,” Alice Munro attempts to do this, but she ultimately fails in offering more than flat emotion and Read More…
Berkeley residents gathered in front of the Downtown Berkeley Post Office in protest of proposed plans to sell the historic building and relocate the post office.
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Thursday, protesters will attempt to rekindle the spirit generated by the Occupy Cal movement on campus last fall with a new set of demonstrations. Set to coincide with the third day of the UC Board of Regents meeting and the day campus professor Robert Reich spoke to thousands on Sproul Plaza Read More…
ASUC External Affairs Vice President Shahryar Abbasi spent the week leading up to last week’s election working from 7 a.m. to midnight to make sure UC Berkeley students were informed on Election Day. One of the pieces of legislation on which Abbasi worked tirelessly to educate students was Proposition 30, Read More…
A report written by UC Berkeley graduate students critiquing the university for poor money management is under fire from UC officials, who claim its information is misleading and inaccurate.
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At the second day of their three-day meeting Wednesday, the UC Board of Regents and various UC administrators debated the merits of adopting a formal policy to increase the enrollment of out-of-state students at the system’s nine undergraduate campuses. Read More…
What is it about One Direction that makes people melt? Is it the combination of pre-approved clothes, intentionally messy yet controlled hairstyles and sensuous vocals? Perhaps it’s the ubiquitous and consuming young-British-boy-crush syndrome. Alternatively, it could be the sweet, loving and relatable lyrics, cliched as they may be. Or maybe Read More…
Few artists possess the flair and showmanship of Russian pianist Yulianna Avdeeva. Fewer still can boast of artistic genius to match such an air of finesse. Perched center stage by the grand piano at Davies Symphony Hall on Nov. 12, Avdeeva was a spectacle of pure class. Utterly precise yet Read More…
Three measures of Gordon’s, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it’s ice-cold, then add a large, thin slice of lemon peel. Got it?” says Daniel Craig as James Bond in “Quantum of Solace.” The 23 bond movies are like the ingredients in Read More…
When Joe Wright, director of “Anna Karenina” eventually found the room in which we were to have our interview, he was 20 minutes late, and I was running out of tea. Slightly out of breath, he reached out to shake my hand. “Sorry, we went exploring the hills of San Read More…
