Andrew Farago wrote a 400-page, lavishly illustrated book that looks at all of Batman’s various incarnations in the last 80 years.
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Berkeley’s independent bookstores survive, thrive
Moe’s Books: serving Berkeley since 1959. Photo: Nacio Jan Brown This article is brought to you by the Bay Area Book Festival. Fill in the blank: B–k. Maybe you read “Book.” Or possibly your mind extrapolated a bit and thought “Berkeley.” Berkeley means books. There have been terrible losses: Cody’s (can it actually be eight years?), Shakespeare […]
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Berkeley teacher illustrates rad City Lights kids’ book
Kate Schatz (left) and Miriam Klein Stahl work on “Rad Women A-Z,” a feminist children’s book out this month from City Lights. Photo: Lena Wolff Kate Schatz (left) and Miriam Klein Stahl work on “Rad Women A-Z,” a feminist children’s book out this month from City Lights. Photo: Lena Wolff When City Lights publishes a […]
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The It List: Five things to do in Berkeley this weekend
The Magic Shoes, about an Iranian boy and his Air Jordans, is one of several USC student films showing this weekend at the Berkeley Video & Film Festival. Berkeley High students can see the student films for free. Photo courtesy of BVFF FILM FESTIVAL The Berkeley Video & Film Festival is a two-weekend feast of independent film, […]
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The It List: Five things to do in Berkeley this weekend
BAHA’s Spring House Tour on Sunday takes in hill houses along Rose Walk. Photo: Berkeley Path Wanderers Association BAHA SPRING HOUSE TOUR Maybeck, Morgan, Ratcliff… This Sunday is the Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association’s annual who’s-who tour of Berkeley architecture. The 39th annual Spring Tour follows Rose Walk, which was designed by Bernard Maybeck 100 years ago. Participants will see the storybook […]
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How do you know it’s New Year’s Day without a calendar?
Pegasus Books on Shattuck is jammed for its New Year’s Day calendar sale. Photo: Ted Friedman Pegasus Books on Shattuck is jammed for its New Year’s Day calendar sale. Photo: Ted Friedman For over 30 years, a slightly eccentric Berkeley tradition has been building: flocking to Pegasus Books on Shattuck or Solano to buy a […]
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Kenny Zamora Damacion: Cherished friend, mentor, father
Kenneth Zamora Damacion, who worked at Pegasus Books in Berkeley for nearly 30 years, died on Nov. 26, 2013. Photo: courtesy Pegasus Books Kenneth Zamora Damacion, who worked at Pegasus Books in Berkeley for nearly 30 years, died at his home in Oakland, aged 59, on Nov. 26. Pegasus owner Amy Thomas shared the following […]
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A ‘tender’ book from Berkeley’s radical Rad Dad
Tomas Moniz: at Pegasus Books on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley tonight When Tomas Moniz, the author of the new novella Bellies and Buffalos, was in New York City a few years ago, he stopped by the mammoth American Girl doll store on Fifth Avenue. His youngest daughter had begged him to visit, part of her […]
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Literature and language conundrums at Pegasus tonight
You may think you know The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E.B. White, but it’s guaranteed you will have a different take on the writing handbook classic if you attend tonight’s First Person Singular gathering at Pegasus Books on Solano Avenue. Like all the events in this monthly series, this one promises to shake up […]
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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 […]
