Tomas Moniz, a teacher at Berkeley City College, is raising funds to publish RAD DAD in 2015 Tomas Moniz, a teacher at Berkeley City College, is raising funds to publish RAD DAD in 2015 By Tara Taylor/Bring Them Along It’s hard to imagine, but there was a point in time when being a parent was a very […]
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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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Best books of 2010: A Berkeley perspective
Berkeley is a city for book lovers. There are 30 independent bookstores in the city and at least three stores specializing in rare books. Berkeley residents love their public library and check out items at a rate three times higher than other California residents. In 2008, that meant they borrowed 2.2 million books, CDS, DVDs, […]
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Cartoons and comics on display at Berkeley fair
A few years ago Susie Cagle set aside her keyboard and picked up her paintbrush. After years of working as an editor and journalist, Cagle decided to try editorial cartooning, and the results have been remarkable. Her “True Stories in Words and Pictures, “ (the way she describes her narrative cartoons) have run in San […]
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Lyrics & Dirges: new Berkeley reading series
For the last five years, Berkeley writer Tomas Moniz has been putting out Rad Dad, a zine that combines his take on fathering with musings about gender, race, class, politics, and other aspects of society. His drawings and discussions on how to parent in a world that often espouses values of domination and elitism have […]
