BERKELEY'S NEWS • NOVEMBER 19, 2023
Alex Jiménez
Spring 2020 literature and LGBTQ+ media beat
Alex Jiménez is the spring 2020 literature and LGBTQ+ media beat. Previously, she was the fall 2019 Weekender editor and the spring 2019 Weekender assistant editor. Before that, she was the fall 2018 arts columnist and summer 2018 LGBTQ+ media beat. She joined the Daily Cal in fall 2017 as a Weekender staff writer and became an arts reporter in spring 2018.
Literature
MARCH 27, 2020
Rachel Harrison’s ‘The Return’ will return to you in nightmares
If you have been desperately yearning for a women-led horror novel that is bone-chilling and slow-building, Rachel Harrison’s debut novel “The Return” is the book for you.
Literature
MARCH 27, 2020
Rachel Harrison’s ‘The Return’ will return to you in nightmares
If you have been desperately yearning for a women-led horror novel that is bone-chilling and slow-building, Rachel Harrison’s debut novel “The Return” is the book for you.
Streaming Diaries
MARCH 24, 2020
A chocolate box assortment of queer hidden gems, throwback cinema
For your quarantine viewing consideration, I’ve assembled a list of films that I think are worth watching.
Streaming Diaries
MARCH 24, 2020
A chocolate box assortment of queer hidden gems, throwback cinema
For your quarantine viewing consideration, I’ve assembled a list of films that I think are worth watching.
Portfolio
MARCH 21, 2020
Don’t read into this: A personal essay
And before the end product, when I’m writing my own fiction, I fear having my writing being read into too much.
Portfolio
MARCH 21, 2020
Don’t read into this: A personal essay
And before the end product, when I’m writing my own fiction, I fear having my writing being read into too much.
Literature
MARCH 20, 2020
Pick up Paul Lisicky’s memoir ‘Later’ sooner rather than later
The memoir recounts Lisicky’s time there in the early 1990s, a time when Provincetown, a queer mecca, was heavily feeling the effects of the AIDS crisis.
Literature
MARCH 20, 2020
Pick up Paul Lisicky’s memoir ‘Later’ sooner rather than later
The memoir recounts Lisicky’s time there in the early 1990s, a time when Provincetown, a queer mecca, was heavily feeling the effects of the AIDS crisis.
Literature
MARCH 13, 2020
Brandon Taylor gives campus novels a taste of ‘Real Life’
As a result of Taylor’s compact prose, the melodrama of real life resists becoming trite melodrama on the fictional page.
Literature
MARCH 13, 2020
Brandon Taylor gives campus novels a taste of ‘Real Life’
As a result of Taylor’s compact prose, the melodrama of real life resists becoming trite melodrama on the fictional page.
Dance
MARCH 09, 2020
Rainbow milongas: Abrazo Queer Tango puts on 7th annual Queer Tango Festivalito
Abrazo Queer Tango, a Berkeley-based and volunteer-run organization, has been giving queer Argentine tango classes to dancers of all levels since 2011.
Dance
MARCH 09, 2020
Rainbow milongas: Abrazo Queer Tango puts on 7th annual Queer Tango Festivalito
Abrazo Queer Tango, a Berkeley-based and volunteer-run organization, has been giving queer Argentine tango classes to dancers of all levels since 2011.
Local Event
MARCH 05, 2020
Revolution Books celebrates 40 years of fighting for radical change in Berkeley
The urgency of Redmonde’s words was echoed by everything each speaker had to say, their presentations centering around both the personal and broader significance behind a bookstore that also has an active political presence in Berkeley and elsewhere.
Local Event
MARCH 05, 2020
Revolution Books celebrates 40 years of fighting for radical change in Berkeley
The urgency of Redmonde’s words was echoed by everything each speaker had to say, their presentations centering around both the personal and broader significance behind a bookstore that also has an active political presence in Berkeley and elsewhere.
Literature
MARCH 03, 2020
Dennis E. Staples unravels convention in stunning debut ‘This Town Sleeps’
Thus, the novel falls somewhere on the outskirts of what readers might conceive as magical realism, but it would be further from the mark to try and push Staples’ work into the fantasy category.
Literature
MARCH 03, 2020
Dennis E. Staples unravels convention in stunning debut ‘This Town Sleeps’
Thus, the novel falls somewhere on the outskirts of what readers might conceive as magical realism, but it would be further from the mark to try and push Staples’ work into the fantasy category.
Black History Month 2020
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
‘Is the university prepared to teach us something new?’: June Jordan and the roots of Poetry for the People
When you walk into UC Berkeley’s Poetry for the People, or P4P, class (African American Studies 156AC) you are walking into a revolutionary landscape that has cultivated and nurtured young student poets since its 1991 conception.
Black History Month 2020
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
‘Is the university prepared to teach us something new?’: June Jordan and the roots of Poetry for the People
When you walk into UC Berkeley’s Poetry for the People, or P4P, class (African American Studies 156AC) you are walking into a revolutionary landscape that has cultivated and nurtured young student poets since its 1991 conception.
Theater
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Elaine Magree’s ‘PussyGrabbingREVENGE’ is funny but misguided
“PussyGrabbingREVENGE” isn’t just a cathartic piece of art — it’s a call to action. To what action? Maybe Magree herself doesn’t even know.
Theater
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Elaine Magree’s ‘PussyGrabbingREVENGE’ is funny but misguided
“PussyGrabbingREVENGE” isn’t just a cathartic piece of art — it’s a call to action. To what action? Maybe Magree herself doesn’t even know.
