Get Fed Thursday, May 13, 2010 | 9:05 am | By Katherine Maslyn, Sara Hayden Starving is probably not the first thing on your mind post-graduation. Isn't that what your undergrad days were for when you ran out of meal points? But let's b... | ![]() |
Editor's Note Thursday, Apr 15, 2010 | 2:04 pm | By Sara Hayden, David Wagner You've told us what you love in Berkeley, and we're here to report back about what makes your favorite spots worthy of the Best of Berkeley 2010 stamp of approv... |
Joshua Bell Inspires Audiences At Zellerbach ... Monday, Mar 1, 2010 | 3:35 am | By Sara Hayden Joshua Bell may very well have been a nationally ranked tennis player and an avid video-gamer in his childhood, as his official website suggests, but most of us... | ![]() |
Off the Beat: Breaking Out of the Box Wednesday, Jan 27, 2010 | 1:53 am | By Sara Hayden Americans like boxes. They give us order and control amidst otherwise chaotic lives. Lost? Take a look at a map to locate yourself according to a grid or find y... | ![]() |
Peking Acrobats Dazzle With Cultural Spectacl... Monday, Jan 25, 2010 | 6:13 am | By Sara Hayden "I can't watch," groaned a woman sitting in the audience, burying her face in her hand. The scene that stressed her? A man coolly swinging one leg over the othe... | ![]() |
Wallflowers Thursday, Dec 3, 2009 | 12:12 pm | By Sara Hayden A woman with a fierce brunette mane spunkily walks over to a window-side table in the Castro's homey cafe, Tazza d'Amore. She is the Swiss-born artist and illus... | ![]() |
Favorites of the Year: Movies Thursday, Dec 3, 2009 | 12:31 pm | By David Liu, Max Siegel, Ryan Lattanzio, Sara Hayden, Travis Korte Updated to include all choices After Retrospective, our best-of-the-decade issue, we decided that we were really tired of numbers. (As humanities majors, cou... | ![]() |
Marcopoulos Brings Action, Immersion to BAM Monday, Oct 12, 2009 | 5:34 am | By Sara Hayden A man clad in a spiffy powder blue polyester three-piece suit zipping at breakneck speed down winding mountain roads on a skateboard dead on into traffic is not... | ![]() |
Dehumanized Thursday, Oct 1, 2009 | 5:00 am | By Sara Hayden You will feel filthy after seeing the Berkeley Art Museum's Abu Ghraib series exhibit by Fernando Botero. Immediately upon entering the exhibit, you face a pit... | ![]() |
Artists Pursue Their Creative Interests In Ba... Monday, Sep 28, 2009 | 4:37 am | By Sara Hayden If you ever have been to the Parisian Montmartre neighborhood in the winter, you may remember that despite the magnificence the city has to offer, it was cold.... | ![]() |
Performances and Style Make 'Easy Virtue' a ... Thursday, May 21, 2009 | 9:25 am | By Sara Hayden What happens when two countries' best stereotypes are confrontationally positioned tete-a-tete? Hint: Neither backs down. In fact, they may rage in a full on ba... | ![]() |
Pet Shop Boys Try to Dance Into Modernity Thursday, Apr 23, 2009 | 5:43 am | By Sara Hayden Countless trends from the '80s have died: shoulder pads, racing-stripe blush, polka dots, perms that irreversibly fry hair, puffy sleeves that block people's vi... | ![]() |
Musical Masala Monday, Apr 20, 2009 | 3:12 am | By Sara Hayden Meet JoSH. No, it's not "Josh." It's JoSH, pronounced "Joe-sh." In literal terms: "We're an Indian fusion band. We sing in Urdu, Punjabi and Hindi," explained Q... | ![]() |
Sara Watkins
SARA WATKINS Monday, Apr 13, 2009 | 4:55 am | By Sara Hayden If Sara Watkins' music has anything, it's spirit of the homegrown variety. Nowhere is this more evident than in her self-titled album, which brings a circle of... | ![]() |
Diana Krall
QUIET NIGHTS Monday, Apr 6, 2009 | 4:56 am | By Sara Hayden Diana Krall's style isn't flashy, but it's obvious she knows the dynamics of her art. Letting the music flow, she knows how to whisper, breathe and, most impres... | ![]() |