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HBO should stick to the fantasy worlds of the vampire-ridden deep South or the cutthroat lands of Westeros — whenever it tries to touch a finger to the Bay Area, it gets it horribly wrong. With “Looking,” HBO attempted to capture the gay man’s romantic plight in San Francisco and
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It’s a difficult feat these days for a band to play songs rooted in a specific genre while avoiding words like “gimmick” or even prefixes like “neo-.” Consider the Black Keys, whose attempts to revive blues rock became overshadowed by a desire to hemorrhage retro-flavored production instead of writing blues-inspired
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Last night was just like the night Beyonce dropped her surprise album: pure magic. For just one hour, all violence around the globe came to a stop, friend and foe laid down their sword, allies and enemies danced hand-in-hand and the whole world gathered around their televisions or HBO GO
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Frank Herbert’s “Dune” is a sprawling masterpiece of science fiction. It inspired generations of fans, megafans, enduring cultural memes, and remains a quasireligious touchstone of truth and the hero’s journey for readers all over the world. If you haven’t read it, imagine that “The Matrix” had taken place on a
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One student grapples to steady a teetering stack of wooden boards — another displays participants’ dreams by having them blow ink onto a blank sheet of paper. A pedestal sink streams flowing, milky-looking water, and clay sperm dangle delicately from fishing line on the ceiling. These scenes — though seemingly
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Though the “The Unknown Known” tries to compose a meaningful portrait of former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld through an interview between him and director Errol Morris, the documentary unfolds at Rumsfeld’s leisure. In the film, Rumsfeld claims to be a simple and virtuous man whose amazing career merely
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I slip into a boxy little apartment building beside a tattoo shop and head up the stairs. I’m checking my phone for the number when the main door clacks behind me and a lithe, bearded young man comes bounding up the stairs. His arms are loaded with packages and rolls of
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The much-awaited Season 4 premiere of HBO’s Game of Thrones will air at 9 p.m. PDT. Tune in here for live updates and reactions to the episode.
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As stormy clouds rolled in just in time for yet another rainy campaign season, UC Berkeley students traded their warm weather maxi dresses and shorts back for more appropriate layering. While some Cal students stayed true to the vintage prep look that was strong at the turn of the decade,
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In the sunny and damp courtyard of North Gate Hall, a crowd gathered for an inauguration Wednesday afternoon. North Gate Hall, made of redwood and glass, once housed the department of architecture. Now the Berkeley School of Journalism resides there, and its hallways, filled with natural light, display the newly
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