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Photos: Just another fabulous weekend in Berkeley, Calif.

Avatar photo by Tracey Taylor May 05, 2014, 9:00 a.m.October 4, 2022

People dressed up in Star Wars costumes for Free Comic Book Day on Saturday May 3, 2014. (It was also Star Wars “May the Fourth Be With You” day on Sunday, May 4.) Photo: Ted Friedman Free Comic Book Day, Berkeley Architectural Heritage Associations’s spring home tour, the first ever California Bookstore Day, Hip Hop in […]

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The It List: Five things to do in Berkeley this weekend

Avatar photo by Berkeleyside staff April 11, 2013, 1:00 p.m.October 4, 2022

ART HAPPENING  It may not be the size of Oakland’s Art Murmur, but Berkeley has its own evening art outing called Second Friday Art Walk. Two cooperative art galleries and a host of cafés and shops will stay open late Friday April 12 and offer artist receptions and food and wine specials. The Firehouse North […]

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Were you a winner in our Caltopia raffle?

Avatar photo by Lance Knobel Aug. 24, 2011, 2:15 p.m.October 4, 2022

Baskets filled to the brim with gift certificates and pizza for a year from La Val’s Baskets filled to the brim with gift certificates and pizza for a year from La Val’s The two days of Caltopia were quite a whirl for students, faculty and staff, as well as for exhibitors like Berkeleyside. From the […]

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Thousands of Cal students, staff flock to Caltopia

Avatar photo by Tracey Taylor Aug. 22, 2011, 10:37 a.m.October 4, 2022

Students new and old come out in droves for the community-boosting swag-fest that is Caltopia. Find Berkeleyside at booth E104 UC Berkeley freshmen, some looking dazed, others excited, as well as more blasé seniors, turned out in their thousands on Sunday for Day One of Caltopia, the self-described “two greatest days on the planet”. The […]

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UC Berkeley’s Caltopia: The ultimate Town & Gown affair

Avatar photo by Tracey Taylor Aug. 18, 2011, 11:30 a.m.October 4, 2022

This weekend, when around 30,000 students and faculty stroll through Caltopia, browsing the booths of more than 100 exhibitors, Berkeley’s two driving forces, the city and its university, will be pitched in perfect harmony. And Berkeleyside will be there to sing along too. Caltopia was launched nine years ago as a way for Berkeley businesses […]

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A brotherly business: Bookstore Fantastic Comics

Avatar photo by Tracey Taylor June 02, 2011, 4:00 p.m.October 4, 2022

When chatting with Paul Kilduff in The Monthly’s June issue about the changing face of downtown Berkeley, San Francisco Chronicle writer and Berkeleyan John King mentioned in passing the demise of Shattuck Avenue’s Comic Relief. “…I guess the comic bookstore closed because the guy who had it forever has just run out of steam,” King […]

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Comic Relief spawns a second comics book store

Avatar photo by Frances Dinkelspiel March 29, 2011, 2:01 p.m.October 4, 2022

Uel Carter: set to open a new comics store in the space of an old one Another comics store is rising out of the ashes of the defunct Comic Relief. Just six weeks after Comic Relief abruptly shut its doors, a former employee has plans to open a new store in the exact same location. […]

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