My magical weekend in Venice
Sunny Sichi/Staff
Sunny Sichi | Staff
Sometimes you experience a place that is nearly impossible to put into words. There’s a place like this for me, and it’s the glorious Venice, Italy.
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UC Berkeley professors share their favorite summer memories
How have UC Berkeley professors spent their favorite summers? Read on to find out what campus faculty have done during their most memorable summers.
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9 months of Berkeley in full, living color
You too will be changed if you come to Cal, not by the resume you build or the grades you get — but only by the defiant act of living and doing so unabashedly, committed to the knowledge that every valuable lesson this school can offer exists outside the confines of a classroom.
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How to feel like you’re studying abroad even if you’re stuck in Berkeley
If you’re like us at the Clog, then your Instagram feed is also clogged with abroad pictures. For those of us stuck in Berkeley, here are some helpful tips to feel as though you, too, are studying abroad.
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A picture-imperfect holiday
Off the Beat
My holiday season always begins the same way — I sit impatiently in an almost-empty BART train car hurtling itself away from the chaotic streets of Downtown Berkeley to the sleepy suburbs of the South Bay. Phone in hand, I scroll absentmindedly through my Instagram feed, sifting through perfectly filtered
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Christine and the Queens display performativity of gender on Fox Theater stage
When Letissier performed Friday at Oakland Fox Theater to a packed crowd — one that was by majority white and by majority queer-presenting — fans received the show before them in a magnetic reverie as they danced to the electric beat.
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Tip of the iceberg
Laid Bear
The crowd applauded loudly as the magician slowly slid a razor-sharp sword down his throat. The magician bowed as he finished the act by politely asking us for some money in return for the show. He tried to persuade us to tip by saying that he swallowed an entire sword
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Discovering my roots
On the Mark
In 1912 my infant grandmother and her family traveled by wagon and train from a remote community in Austria-Hungary to Hamburg, Germany, where they boarded a no-frills passenger ocean liner to the United States. A century later in Brooklyn, I stepped onto the luxury cruise ship Queen Mary 2 for
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An all-American world
Between America and Me
I was touched by this country even before I boarded the 17-hour flight that brought me to America. Growing up, my friends would go through whole bags of M&M’s, watch Hollywood films and dream of sunny California. We’d fantasize about free water fountains, and gosh, Mum, can we make those PB&J sandwiches, please? We’d discuss how Americans were perpetually in the future.
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Picks of the Week: Batty about bats, and other activities leading up to Labor Day
Monday shows some promising picnic weather in the afternoon — get out into nature, and forget about the stresses of school for an hour.
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