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What’s new in East Bay food, XIX
New restaurants and coffee shops, foodie tours and book readings: it’s all there in the new edition of Bites.
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Michael Lewis talks writing, reading for World Book Night
Berkeley author Michael Lewis spoke at Mrs. Dalloway’s bookstore on Monday to promote World Book Night 2013. Berkeley author Michael Lewis sauntered into Mrs. Dalloway’s bookstore on College Avenue on Monday, dressed for the 85-degree weather in a white cotton jacket and pants. The crowd, which had been expecting him a half hour sooner and […]
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The It List: Five things to do in Berkeley this weekend
MARCH MADNESS, BORP STYLE The annual Northern California Hoops Classic wheelchair basketball tournament runs all weekend at the James Kenney Recreation Center, 1720 8th Street. Hosted by the Bay Area Outreach & Recreation Program (BORP), Berkeley’s own BORP All-Stars — an adult team — and BORP Bay Cruisers — a youth team and the reigning […]
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The It List: Five things to do in Berkeley this weekend
JEWISH MUSIC MASH-UP How often do you get the chance to see a concert featuring a rabbi and a Christian gospel choir? Sunday sees the kick-off for the fourth Netivot Shalom Music Festival. Previously an annual event, the festival now hosts five monthly Sunday concerts featuring local artists performing a diverse array of Jewish music. It is […]
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On eunuchs and intrigues: Talking with Anita Amirrezvani
Anita Amirrezvani: her new novel, “Equal of the Sun”, explores the workings of the Persian royal palace in the 16th century A lustful eunuch intent on revenge. A Persian princess seeking to bend an empire to her will. A bloodthirsty Shah with a jones for opium and a deadly streak of paranoia. Anita Amirrezvani’s second […]
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The It List: Five things to do in Berkeley this weekend
PREPARE TO BE BEWITCHED Thaisa Frank’s short fiction has been captivating readers for decades, even before the publication of her highly regarded and widely translated novel Heidegger’s Glasses. Now Frank has collected 61 old and new stories in Enchantment: New and Selected Stories, published this week by Berkeley’s Counterpoint Press. As Booklist puts it:”The title […]
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Love books? Help give away 1 million of them
World Book Day sees people give away books. Photo: Creative Commons Book lovers around the world are planning to give away millions of books on April 23 – and they are looking for Berkeley readers to help them. The event is called World Book Night and its inaugural event in Great Britain in March of […]
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Were you a winner in our Caltopia raffle?
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
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
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 chance for book lovers to help Berkeley schools
All Berkeley Unified School District schools stand to benefit from book lovers this weekend with a discount initiative offered by independent book store Mrs Dalloway’s. For those of you organized enough to already be doing holiday shopping take note that, for its School Benefit Weekend, Mrs Dalloway’s will reimburse partnership schools for 20% of the total […]
