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“I don’t like looking at art,” my friend told me as we listlessly lazed in my apartment, discussing summer plans. “I prefer hands-on exhibits.” Rather than taking offense, I was curious at her comment. It made me think about not only how we engage with art, but also what we
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A film that evades the year’s heavier onscreen moments, “Begin Again” carries a light and fun movie experience for the summer with romance, comedy and hope. With the entrancing scenery of New York City, director John Carney (“Once”) uses the story to be in and of the city throughout the
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About 60 students and community members rallied on Upper Sproul Plaza Tuesday afternoon in opposition to fracking in California, part of a statewide movement demanding Gov. Jerry Brown ban fracking.
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On the same courts where the best professional tennis players in the world congregate to compete, Zsofi Susanyi will represent the Cal women’s tennis team at the USTA National Indoor Collegiate Championships in New York this weekend. The National Indoor Collegiate Championships, considered the second of the three annual grand
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Brooklyn native Anthony Weiner has been making some scandalous headlines. The rather frisky politician can’t seem to hold back his enthusiasm for possibly becoming New York City’s next mayor and also can’t seem to keep it in his pants. Depending on whether his sexual activities would affect your vote if
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A couple of shops are cleverly placed in two of the biggest tourist traps of the Bay Area (Union Square and Fisherman’s Wharf). There is one shop right down Center Street in Berkeley. And at some point, you know you’ve picked up a pint of the good stuff at Safeway
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I’m not sure if Americans realize this, but the United States is one of the most surreal places for a foreigner to travel to. American culture, particularly cinema has an unparalleled global reach. I watch more American films in a year than my country has produced in its entire history.
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Martin Scorsese’s influential presence in the last 40 years of cinema is an undeniable thing of beauty. For a director that has spent more than half his life in the film industry, Scorsese has produced a relatively small filmography with only 34 movies made in nearly half-a-century. But such longevity
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This audio podcast is the first of two parts. Find Part two here. As the nation moved on, the 9/11 attacks may have faded from the foreground, but for Esteban Silva, fiery images are still burning in his mind. His initial memories from that day are as vivid as the sky
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Our school normally sent us home on buses. But on that day, the administration could not assume that we still had parents. We were kept waiting in the assembly room for hours while they contacted our parents, one at a time, asking them to pick us up. I remember Sept.
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