Picks of the Week: Baby, you’re a firework
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If you’re in need of a reminder, it’s the Fourth of July! The Berkeley Marina has a celebration planned from noon to 10 p.m.
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Picks of the Week: Comedy to comics, drawing to design
From comedy to Free Comic Book Day, and from drop-in drawing to the 2018 Jacobs Spring Design Showcase, every creative inkling you have will be satisfied.
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‘Artist as Maggid’ exhibit at Contemporary Jewish Museum considers art, stories, tradition
For the exhibit, 16 local artists drew from various folktales in Howard Schwartz’s “Leaves from the Garden of Eden: One Hundred Classic Jewish Tales.”
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Picks of the week: Cultural excursions
There is something magical about being able to simulate travelling the world without boarding an international flight. Thanks to the Bay Area’s vast diversity, it’s easy to explore another culture without the jet lag. For those who would otherwise be stuck in Berkeley with no fun summer vacation to speak
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Day at the museum: a local’s guide to the Bay’s best museums
If you’re in Berkeley this summer, your main relaxation goal is probably to grab a leisurely lunch at the Cheese Board Collective or maybe head out to appreciate some Bay views. But the Bay Area has so much to offer once you get beyond Shattuck Avenue and Telegraph Avenue. As
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Picks of the week: In the city
It’s the fourth week of school, and while workloads aren’t too heavy yet, you may already find yourself falling into a predictable routine that spans no more than a 10-block radius. Don’t get trapped in the Berkeley bubble just yet — there’s a great, big city just a BART ride
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UC Theatre receives $1.3 million grant to finish renovation
The UC Theatre announced Tuesday that it received a $1.3 million matching grant to finish its restoration and open in the fall.
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Childhood on display in exhibit of Arnold Lobel’s work
“There is a little world at the end of my pencil,” said Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator and author Arnold Lobel. “I am the stage director, the costume designer and the man who pulls the curtain.” The deceased Lobel, best known for his series of children’s books “Frog and Toad,” is honored
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Kibbutz exhibit traces movement’s journey, history
In “To Build & Be Built: Kibbutz History,” the Contemporary Jewish Museum investigates the social movement that redefined Jewish life in the modern era. The exhibit, a simple display on one wall of the CJM, traces the history of the kibbutz movement with photos of kibbutz life and descriptions of
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The Beat Generation, as seen through the lens of Allen Ginsberg
Photography exhibition at the Contemporary Jewish Museum offers striking reflection on community, generation and decay
“He looked by that time like his father, red-faced corpulent W.C. Fields shuddering with mortal horror…” Thus reads the inscription of a photo depicting American icon Jack Kerouac and taken by Allen Ginsberg in 1964 — just a few years before the former’s death. Far from the exuberant youth depicted
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