Michael Lewis, Michael Pollan, Michael Chabon, and moderator Sedge Thomson on stage at Berkeleyside’s “The Three Michaels: A Berkeley Conversation,” at Berkeley Rep, Monday Dec. 10, 2012. Photo: Pete Rosos In an evening designed to focus on the “Berkeleyishness” of Berkeley, and raise money for a great cause, three of the city’s most renowned Michaels […]
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Jefferson School teacher receives 826 Valencia Award
BUSD Board February 23, 2011 Recognition from Berkeley Public Schools on Vimeo. Last week Jefferson Elementary School first grade teacher Beth Trevor was doubly honored. Firstly by the 826 Valencia Foundation which made her the recipient of its Teacher of the Month award. And secondly on the occasion of the Berkeley Unified School District board […]
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Berkeley author pledges to support college program
Berkeley author Ayelet Waldman has come up with a clever, not to mention generous, idea to help send a disadvantaged Oakland student to college through the Scholar Match program, established by her fellow writer and friend Dave Eggers. Waldman has selected one student, Eddie Ashley, and is going to match every dollar her family, friends […]
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Michael Chabon calls himself overrated
Michael Chabon may be the best-known writer living in Berkeley (although other Pulitzer Prize winners, like Alice Walker, have lived here at times). He certainly is among the most-respected. The Wall Street Journal interviewed Chabon recently about the Bay Area literary life, which Chabon called a “vibrant, fun scene, and much less of a pressure […]
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Dave Eggers decries the death of the newspaper
Reports of the death of the newspaper are greatly exaggerated. Long live the newspaper. So says bestselling author Dave Eggers, who with a small editorial team, published Panorama, a 320-page newspaper that sold out its 20,000 print-run in December. The prolific publisher discussed the newspaper business as a guest of the UC Berkeley Graduate School […]
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Dave Eggers: Have a few pirate fights with your writing lesson
Dave Eggers Dave Eggers drew a large audience to Berkeley Rep Monday night, and he treated his listeners to an amusing collection of self-deprecating stories. San Francisco Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll just had to probe Eggers gently, and then the author of numerous bestselling books was off on a roll. The most interesting thing the […]
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Two Davids coming to the Rep
The Berkeley Rep is to host both David Sedaris and David Eggers (left) in the coming months at separate events — and tickets should probably be reserved now rather than wait for later. San Francisco writer and publisher Dave Eggers (pictured left) will be in conversation with San Francisco Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll on February 1 at the […]
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Where to get Dave Eggers’ Panorama in the East Bay
Panorama, the 320-page “newspaper” conceived and executed by Dave Eggers and McSweeney’s, hits the streets tomorrow, Tuesday Dec 8. I had heard it would be sold for $5 on the streets of San Francisco, hawked by a collection of “newsies” wandering the city. The idea was to imitate the newsboys of the golden age of […]
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Pixar’s Brad Bird in conversation with Jon Carroll
The Berkeley Rep, aglow with the success of its latest smash, American Idiot, and from the general recognition of its artistic prowess, is also holding what promises to be an entertaining series of “conversations” hosted by San Francisco Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll. First up, on November 9, is Pixar‘s Brad Bird (pictured left), the internationally acclaimed director of […]
