Fortune by the Ragged Wing Ensemble IS LADY LUCK ON YOUR SIDE? The Ragged Wing Ensemble is presenting Fortune: The Complete Works, through Sunday May 27, and it will be one of the first performances in the new Osher Studio in the not-yet-quite-opened Arpeggio Building at 2055 Center Street. Ragged Wing is an ensemble of […]
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20-year-old Berkeley native competes on Jeopardy!
Alex Trebek and Matt Olson, the Berkeley resident competing on Jeopardy! Photos courtesy of Jeopardy! In 2004, when Matt Olson was 12, he was captivated by Ken Jennings, the 30-year old man who won 74 Jeopardy! Games in a row. It was the longest-winning streak ever on the popular game show and Jennings’ success catapulted […]
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Cal frat boy Kyle Crews a hit with Jennifer Lopez & co
American Idol fans know that when a judge says “you’re going to Hollywood”, that’s very good news. These words were spoken by former Aerosmith rocker Steven Tyler to UC Berkeley undergraduate Kyle Crews recently when he auditioned for the show in San Diego, which also happens to be his hometown. Crews, who dedicated his rendition […]
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Berkeley-raised rapper goes commercial with Hyundai
David Wittman, aka DJ Dave, had a viral hit in June with his rap about the Whole Foods parking lot (although many Berkeleyans preferred the localized version by Lae Charles). Innocean, the ad agency for Korean car manufacturer Hyundai seems to have taken note, because Wittman and his creative collective, Fog and Smog, are the […]
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Berkeley High’s Kehlani and PopLyfe fall at final AGT hurdle
PopLyfe, led by Berkeley High's Kehlani Parrish (center), at an earlier stage of America's Got Talent Berkeley High junior Kehlani Parrish and her group PopLyfe reached the final four of America’s Got Talent this week. But the six-member group was the first to be voted off on last night’s results show. Despite that disappointment, PopLyfe […]
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Berkeley High’s Kehlani Parrish performs in AGT finals
Poplyfe: lead singer Kehlani Parrish (center) is a Junior at Berkeley High School Kehlani Parrish, a 16-year-old Berkeley High junior, performed Tuesday night with her band Poplyfe in the finals of this season’s NBC show America’s Got Talent. After a stunning run-up to the show’s finals in Las Vegas, Poplyfe got mixed reviews from the judges […]
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‘He’s so hot’ — aka, the Tony Taccone adulation society
It seems the Artistic Director of the Berkeley Rep has something of a “following”. In fact, read the comments on a story we ran about him last week, and it becomes clear a certain group of fans is positively smitten with Tony Taccone, speaking with more than a little hyperbole of his brazen attractiveness, his warm […]
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Doctor Who fans: Did you spot TARDIS in Berkeley?
Fans of British cult science-fiction TV series Dr Who were in for a treat recently when the iconic TARDIS police box, through which the aforementioned doctor takes his time- and space-traveling journeys, made a brief appearance in Berkeley when on a surprising journey of its own. The blue kiosk was photographed on the roof of […]
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Berkeley boys’ video paean to Giants goes viral
Those Berkeley boys whose creative antics are the brains behind the successful web-TV reality show, White Collar Brawlers, have scored another success. Their video honoring the Giants’ playoff games has gone more than viral in the last few days. It was uploaded on October 10 and since then has gotten 843,000 views on YouTube – […]
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‘Mad Men’: A TV show considered worthy of study
We freely concede this is just an excuse to run photos of beautiful people in gorgeous mid-century clothes, but wouldn’t you want to be a student again if it means you can study “Mad Men”? This fall, UC Berkeley is introducing a two-unit English course in the campus’s DeCal program focused on the “thematically, symbolically, and historically rich television […]
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Berkeley boys aim to be web sensation
Why would two 26-year old Berkeley natives, one a graduate from Yale, the other from Harvard, give up their cushy desk jobs to train to be boxers? To reinvent web television, of course. On September 21, Nate Houghteling and Kai Hasson, who were born and raised in Berkeley, debuted an interactive web documentary series called […]
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Hollywood comes to Berkeley for TV show, again
Two Hacienda Heights actors make their way to the Keneuoe Vivere store on College Avenue. It isn’t only the people behind NBC series Parenthood who feel Berkeley is a choice spot to shoot a TV series. Yesterday, the Elmwood neighborhood paid host to a film crew shooting scenes for Hacienda Heights, a night-time drama (not a […]
