There’s a strange infection in San Francisco, and it’s making all those around the geeky, 20-something Hamlet speak and act as if they’re in a Shakespearean play. And, as we all know, the works of William Shakespeare don’t always have happy endings. Following the success of last year’s “Truffaldino Says Read More…
I’ll be the first to admit the attitude I developed toward state politics as child was certifiably starry-eyed. I grew up near Sacramento, and it was hard not to be awed by the big white dome downtown. Of course we all grow up, and in politics we grow up fast. Read More…
With about a month left of summer, you probably feel like school is going to start too soon. But there are also some things — fun or quirky things — that you might actually miss about Berkeley. The good thing is that you can try to get those things when Read More…
If you saw someone walking down Telegraph yesterday carrying a bunch of copies of Tina Fey’s “Bossypants” and were slightly confused as to why this person was handing them out to random people on the street, the Clog’s here to satiate your curiosity. Yesterday was World Book Night, a day (yeah, Read More…
Impact Theatre’s latest contemporary revamp is William Shakespeare’s “As You Like It.” The play follows a familiar Shakespearean scenario. Everyone starts to fall in love with the wrong person. Chaos ensues. Read More…
“You can check out anytime you like but you can never leave,” the Eagles said. Whenever I stay at a hotel, even for a night or two, I get a funny feeling just before I leave that I have forgotten something. I check all the drawers, even though I know Read More…
A sparkling collection of dazzling costumes graced the stage at the San Francisco Ballet’s production of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” on March 9 at the War Memorial Opera House. Clad in stately garments and looking the part of grand, theatrical dancers, the corps de ballet strolled daintily across a breathtakingly Read More…
Watch an interview with Impact Theater’s artistic director. Impact Theater is a theater company in Berkeley that recently opened with Shakespeare’s Titus Titus Andronicus. Anya Schultz produced this video.
The second we said it aloud, we knew we were onto something epic. The scene: a living room in a post-apocalyptic state the morning after a party. The players: my housemates and me. The crime: naming our typically rundown student apartment and embarking on possibly the most ridiculous adventure we’ve Read More…
I was going to write about Thanksgiving this week. I was going to write about how glorious it is that once a year (more than once in my case), we can sit down as proud Americans and engorge ourselves with genetically-modified organisms while I sit at the kids’ table. But, Read More…