“To the Berkeleyans who have stood by me in this dark and difficult time in my life…” Photo: Richard Nagler “To the Berkeleyans who have stood by me in this dark and difficult time in my life…” Photo: Richard Nagler In the past few weeks, many Berkeleyside readers have enjoyed a front-row seat as one […]
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Wall Street Journal joins the fun after a thoughtful note to a Berkeley thief goes viral
A surveillance camera outside Berkeley business Skylight & Sun caught two people, working on behalf of the Wall Street Journal, posting two notes on a gate on Blake Street. Image: courtesy Richard Nagler The Wall Street Journal couldn’t resist joining in the fun after it read about a note written by local businessman and photographer […]
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A Berkeley note to Wall Street Journal thief gets results
The note posted by Richard Nagler addressed to the person who had been stealing his copy of the Wall Street Journal on and off for ten years. Photo: Marty Schiffenbauer. Click to enlarge After we published the story of a novel note to a newspaper thief earlier today, things began to fall into place. We now know that the […]
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Michael Lewis on movies, books, and the financial crisis
Michael Lewis. Photo: Julia Flynn Siler Michael Lewis seems incapable of telling a lie. In a freewheeling interview in front of a private banking group Wednesday night, the Berkeley writer confessed how he didn’t like the movie The Blind Side when he first saw it, how movie people would prefer that the author of a […]