It was freshman year, and I was bored with some friends on Telegraph. Happy High Herbs, a vendor of herbal remedies and supplements, had just opened, and the fluorescent troll painted on the storefront beckoned to us. “Something to do,” it said. When we went inside, we told the proprietors Read More…
Last winter, I shadowed a doctor whose name bore an unfortunate resemblance to “quack.” He was a legitimate practitioner, but he also used “alternative” medicine, and his inevitable critics were all too happy to use the pun against him. For me, their criticisms were ill considered. I found the “quack” Read More…
Current house garden manager Ariel Cherbowsky has recently set out to restore what Cherbowsky’s manifesto called Cloyne’s “naturalistic charisma” by calling for residents to become involved in its garden. Read More…
Bellah is famous for his concept of American “civil religion” — that there is a kind of abstract institutionalized religion at the center of American culture, and that a large part of what it means to be American can thus be conceived of as a religious experience. Read More…
A man was shot near Oregon and Dohr streets, west of Sacramento street, on Monday night. Read More…
Napolitano, who also served as the Governor of Arizona, will be the first female president of the university.
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The Safeway grocery store on the corner of Claremont and College avenues will close Monday to begin a controversial 12-month renovation and expansion project that has been 7 years in the works. Read More…
Berkeley City Council will hold a public hearing at its meeting Tuesday to draft an ordinance reflecting one of two city redistricting plans, both of which include a student majority district. Read More…
