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With more than 200 pavilions occupying an enormous space — twice the size of Monaco — the expo is basically a trip around the world.

Ever since coming to Berkeley, not only have I missed my friends and family back at home, but I've also missed my comfort food: shawarma. To remind myself of home, I decided to try every single shawarma spot in Berkeley.

The Rausser College of Natural Resources announced an endowment dedicated to Professor Malcom Kerr for the Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program.

Armenians desire nothing but peace, and we as a diaspora are trying to help our people from a distance.

What makes someone “white” in the United States? Is it a lack of spice tolerance? Raisins in potato salad? Shish kebabs and baba ghanoush?

I didn’t realize how these different personal artistic expressions captured and reflected rapidly evolving political, social and economic climates.

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.

Odcikin is an advocate for rehearsals being spaces for the very conversations that the play hopes to inspire among audience members.

My journalism might upset a few stoners, but never did it lead me to see myself, to steal from Ernest Hemingway, dead in the rain.