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Category Archives: Berkeley
Fatwa Against His Life, Iranian Musician to Play at UC Berkeley
Iranian musician Shahin Najafi will perform at UC Berkeley's Wheeler Hall this Friday, November 16, 2012.
News Pix: Election Edition
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A man stands in front of Moving Forward funded billboards on San Pablo Avenue in Richmond. Moving Forward spent nearly $700,000 on three candidates. (Tawanda Kanhema/Richmond Confidential) At 5:30 a.m., voters were just trickling into the polling booths at the … Continue reading
News Pix: Giants Win World Series, Dia de Los Muertos, and Local Elections Heat Up
The San Francisco Giants swept the Detroit Tigers in the fourth game of the World Series on Sunday night. The Bay Area celebrated the win with a parade featuring the players on Wednesday, October 31st. (Wendy Goodfriend/KQED)
News Pix: Parent Trigger Law, Berkeley Sunday Streets, Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Carving Contest
Mothers of the Desert Trails Parent Union stand inside their headquarters in Adelanto. They are the first in the country to successfully employ a so-called 'parent trigger law' to radically transform a failing public school. They voted to hand … Continue reading
News Pix: Hovercraft on Ocean Beach, Art in Motion, Walk to School Day and More
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Fleet Week is back, which means military crafts and tourists descend on San Francisco. But lots of other things happened this week, affecting the lives of ordinary Bay Area citizens. San Francisco Fleet Week kicked off at Ocean Beach Wednesday … Continue reading
News Pix: Endeavor Flyover, Folsom Street Fair, Swimming for Cancer and More
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Some great shots from around the Bay this week. The space shuttle Endeavor embarked on the Bay Area leg of its farewell tour Friday, Sept. 21, en route to its final home at the California Science Museum in Los Angeles … Continue reading
News Pix: Occupy's One Year Anniversary, a Car Made of Scrap and More
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The week in photos around the Bay Area: The "Special Delivery" street art show organized by Endless Canvas in a vacant west Berkeley warehouse on September 8th was attended by about 5,000 people and left in its wake some unwelcome … Continue reading
OccupyArt: Posters That Make the Movement Pop
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Usually, you have to wait a few years for a museum to get around to evaluating the defining art of a political movement, but the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco jumped right in with "Occupy Bay … Continue reading
News Pix: Richmond Family Remembers a Fallen Son and Other Bay Area Images
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We're back with our weekly photo feature. Enjoy these photos from around the Bay and a little further south as well (how could we resist dog mushing!). These shots highlight what's going on in communities big and small. Ulises Grijalva, … Continue reading
Read Excerpts From Michael Chabon's 'Telegraph Avenue'
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Berkeley novelist Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Klay, has a new book out today. Telegraph Avenue, which he discussed on KQED Public Radio's Forum show (archive here later), is set "in a … Continue reading
