A visual language of community: Graffiti’s history and significance
Kayla Brown/File
While graffiti has become ingrained into mainstream culture and legitimized itself as an art form, its history and significance deserve recognition.
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UC must cease its role in Berkeley’s gentrification
CITY AFFAIRS: The UC should not demolish affordable, rent-controlled apartments to expand student housing
The UC system has the expertise and the resources to increase housing units without displacing less-affluent residents — so it ought to.
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‘Gentefied’ tackles familiar immigrant hardships with fresh humor
The show’s characters are hard-working immigrants and the descendants of immigrants caught between two worlds.
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Culture shock at UC Berkeley
Cal in Color
Berkeley was never too far away from home, and even though I rarely visited, I didn’t think it would be that different from Oakland — but it was.
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Voss Gallery’s ‘Plants and Machines’ opening leaves imprint and impression on Mission District
Walking uphill toward Valencia Street from the 24th St. Mission BART station, Voss Gallery, on the corner of 24th Street and Bartlett Street, is difficult to miss.
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Berkeley restaurant closings threaten cultural mecca
CITY ISSUES: Community’s emotional reactions to loss of restaurants indicates necessity of city support
Berkeley is unique in that it provides a sampling of cultures from all over the world — to let that go is to let our city’s identity go.
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Lights, camera, Acton Street: 4 of the best movies filmed around the Bay Area to watch this summer
These four films are some of the best movies that take place, and are at least partly filmed, in the Bay Area, perfect for a summer screening with friends.
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Berkeley must remember that more housing is not the same as affordable housing
CITY AFFAIRS: Berkeley’s housing crisis has reached intolerable levels. Community members must actively advocate for affordability
Berkeley City Council approved the creation of a housing complex in Downtown Berkeley entirely at market-rate. Community members have blindly rallied around increased housing, without pushing for the affordability of those developments. What’s the point of building more housing if the people who need it the most can’t afford it?
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Why is Berkeley building extravagant parking lots when the city is in a housing crisis?
CITY AFFAIRS: Mayor Jesse Arreguín called the parking lot ‘the greenest parking garage in California.’ This is utterly paradoxical
The new Downtown Berkeley parking garage is more than just light displays, an art gallery, a café and a rainwater collection garden — it’s an unmistakable show of gentrification.
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Courtney Barnett is powerful at Treasure Island Music Festival
Initially, when the band emerged from the wings of the stage to a roar from the audience, it was very hard to find Courtney Barnett. The quirky Australian indie rocker made her name as the Bob Dylan of millennial artists, and she looked the part in a plain white T-shirt and black pants.
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