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When Marvel and Disney asked to screen questions before interviewing Joss Whedon, my first impression was to assume that the plot of “The Avengers” symbolized something much larger than just a comic tale. Perhaps the movie would allude to a contemporary global threat or feature a hidden psychological dimension —
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Editor’s note: This feature is one of a two-part series analyzing new shifts in hip-hop as demonstrated by two rising artists (one established, the other underground) that deny conventions on the national stage and in our community: Danny Brown and Zachg. On the 2002 track “Oops (Oh My)”, Tweet’s skirt
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Simply put, it is impossible to come to Italy without dedicating a good 30 percent of your time to enjoying the local cuisine. Truth be told, I probably spend about half of my day in the company of food of some variety, and more often than not, it’s pizza. Sure,
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Last semester, the Berkeley College Republicans’ decision to hold a bake sale event against affirmative action legislation sparked controversy across the campus and the nation, eliciting a heavy amount of online criticism. Amy Wang covers academics and administration.
While Occupy Cal at UC Berkeley and nearby Occupy Oakland have garnered national media attention, the city of Berkeley’s Occupy movement has remained for the most part under the radar. However, Occupy Berkeley has been active for more than two months now, and its encampment — set up at Martin Luther
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While many of the Occupy protests have focused on fighting the negative effects of socioeconomic inequality, to define the Occupy movement in a sentence, or an article, would be contradictory to its purpose. What the movement has been is a movement of real images, images that captured raw emotion of
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Nationwide, encampments established as part of the Occupy movement have been sites of conflict and unrest, often resulting in clashes with city officials and local law enforcement. Occupy Berkeley is an exception, though, and some say the lack of resistance to the camp’s existence from the institutions it opposes has
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The following is a sample of crime in Berkeley this week, provided by the Berkeley Police Department.
Joe Kapp is an Old Blue favorite, the fiery quarterback who led Cal to its last Rose Bowl in 1959 and swore not to drink tequila until the Bears return to Pasadena. He has lost none of his grit.
Northern California during the 1970s served as a bastion of cinema with such enduring filmmakers as Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas and Philip Kaufman basing their projects in the San Francisco Bay Area. Seen as a practical alternative to the established hierarchy of Los Angeles, Northern California attracted a multitude
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