Lights in strange places: A poem
Sage Alexander/Staff
there’s a bubble in the wall above our pillows. it’s a painted over bulge, caught condensation from decades of tenants mouth breathing into a room
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‘Day-to-day minutiae of horse racing’: A look into horse fatalities at Golden Gate Fields
Though only a few miles from the UC Berkeley campus, stepping inside of the Golden Gate Fields takes you into another time period — one with old gray cube televisions and the smell of cigarette smoke. It makes you want to eat a hot dog; it gives you that stuffy
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Unearthing debates: Lithium, Northern Nevada and environmental clash
In late September, two activists were fined about $50,000 for allegedly building portable bathrooms on public land in Northern Nevada. This fine represents the sometimes hostile atmosphere activists face as they attempt to stop the development of a lithium mine in Thacker Pass, or Peehee Mu’huh. The Bureau of Land
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From city to mountains: Bay Area transplants in South Lake Tahoe
The skyrocketing price of property in South Lake Tahoe can help us understand how small towns are impacted by transplants from cities, for better or worse.
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Grave robbing at UC Berkeley: A history of failed repatriation
UC Berkeley, through decades of systematic looting, has one of the largest collections of human remains in the country.
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Build it and they won’t come: Reflections on a tourist town during lockdown
Stateline, Nevada without tourists was a church without worshipers. Next to the deserted highway, usually jumbled with traffic, were shuttered knickknack shops and abandoned timeshares, electric signs promising, “The fun will return!”
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