Poet, friend and vagabond Jack Gilbert dies in Berkeley

Jack Gilbert lived a life as fierce and unconventional as his poetry. The poet died Tuesday in a Berkeley nursing home after a prolonged battle with dementia. He was 87. Read More…

Jack Gilbert lived a life as fierce and unconventional as his poetry. The poet died Tuesday in a Berkeley nursing home after a prolonged battle with dementia. He was 87. Read More…
UC Berkeley 2011 graduate Tarek Corwin Saleh, remembered for his caring and selfless nature, died early Saturday morning in a car accident at the Emeryville Marina. He was 25. Emeryville Police Department officers responded to the scene at 6:10 a.m. and identified Saleh after they retrieved his car from the Read More…
Internationally acclaimed Bay Area artist Stephen De Staebler, who was celebrated for his bronze and clay sculptures that evoked landscapes and organic ruin, died in his Berkeley home from complications of cancer. He was 78. De Staebler was perhaps best known for his fragmented representations of the human body, which Read More…