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Over the last couple of years, there has been a noticeable increase in media coverage of gentrification and the rise of Bay Area urban real estate prices. Below is meant to be an explanation of what gentrification is and why the issue of affordability in cities has become such a high-profile topic lately.
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If you’re looking for the single biggest advantage in the youth job market, the answer is actually pretty simple, and it has nothing to do with which box you check on a major declaration form. To put it bluntly: If you want to get a job, go to college and major in whatever suits you best.
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Malo Hutson is an assistant professor in the department of city and regional planning at UC Berkeley. Why do you teach? I teach because of the incredible students here at Cal. What are some ways students can get involved in the Oakland and Berkeley communities and experience East Bay culture?
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At around six p.m. on October 28, 2013, Jonathan Martin had had enough.
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Leah Reich is a researcher, writer and occasional photographer in the East Bay. She works at Automatic, a startup based in San Francisco, conducting research about consumer behavior.
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On Saturday night, the band Islands performed a set at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, playing tracks off their new album Ski Mask. Nick Thorburn, the frontman of the group and an alumnus (along with Islands drummer Jamie Thompson) of the pre-Islands group the Unicorns, is the
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On Sunday night, world-renowned violinist and conductor Pinchas Zukerman led London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in a rousing performance at San Francisco’s Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall. The Royal Philharmonic and Zukerman put on an entirely Beethoven program, consisting of the overture to “The Creatures of Prometheus,” the Violin Concerto in
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In a year of Glassholes, smartphone trolling and an explosion in the amount of attention paid to artificially intelligent or robotic technologies, “Her” offers a safe and inviting image of a technology-obsessed future. The new Spike Jonze feature, while getting the details of how most humans actually interact with technology completely
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UC Berkeley students and alumni wrote op-eds expressing their opinions and pressing concerns about the millennial generation.
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It’s never been a better time to be a Silicon Valley hater. Blogs and websites such as Gawker’s Valleywag and the New York Observer’s Betabeat have succeeding in exposing the erratic futurism and obscene privilege of many of high tech’s royalty. The country is beginning to wake up to the
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