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Alex Bigman on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 09:35 pm
We cannot think of anything more lame than still being located on Bancroft Way. Honestly, you might as well just kill yourself (cough, Alphonse Berber ….). If you didn’t already know about the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive’s impending move to where it’s at (Center and Oxford streets): duh. And, what with everyone being poor now and all, they’re working on a new building design to save some money. Get on with it! read more »
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Alex Bigman on Sunday, November 15, 2009 02:45 pm
The beauty of one act plays is: there’s one act not followed by another. The playwright says what she intends to say, real brief and no one bored. PLUS: sampler plate opportunities. Hit up Dwinelle next week for a one-act trio: three acts, three plays by 20th century writers including Eugene Ionesco, Suzan Lori-Parks, Samuel Becket, Harold Pinter, Maria Irene Fornes and, yes, Gertrude motherf*ckin Stein. read more »
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Alex Bigman on Saturday, November 14, 2009 09:10 am
Republicans have brainwashed us to dislike taxes, says UC Berkeley cognitive scientist/linguistics professor George Lakoff, and it’s time Democrats fought back with some brainwashing of their own (George Lakoff is on Bill O’Reilly’s “enemies list,” right between Anthony Romero, the executive director of the ACLU and Howard Dean.) Lakoff intends to get a proposition on the November 2010 ballot that would restore democracy in California. It employs hardcore brainwashing a subtle cognitive phenomenon that made him famous, called “reframing.” read more »
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Alex Bigman on Thursday, November 12, 2009 12:26 pm
“American Idiot” (the play), we remember when you were just a wee idea, scrounging for funding amidst a world of skeptics and naysayers. Now look at you: an extended run at the Rep, a critical response ranging from mediocre to pretty good, and you’re ready to leave the nest, off to Broadway – the big time. We promised ourselves we wouldn’t cry. read more »
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Alex Bigman on Sunday, November 08, 2009 02:15 pm
That tree sitter thing, squeezing out one more headline: and just when we thought it had finally been laid to rest (minus this guy.) Barbara J. Miller, the presiding judge in the 2008 case, has died at age 58. It was her highest profile case. Barbara J. Miller sided with the university, ending the 21 month standoff/media clusterf*ck. Those trees are gone.
Image Source: Shirly Buxton under Creative Commons.
Judge in U.C Berkeley tree-sitting case dies [Chronicle]
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Alex Bigman on Saturday, November 07, 2009 12:29 pm
BAM/PFA is a kool thing. Those of you who, 19 years after the unofficial “k” shift, are still spelling “cool” like your parents, well, you might as well just stop reading now. Not only was the Bancroft museum purposely built to house tall, well-dressed people who thrive amidst the color gray, but apparently music sounds sounds good there too. Hence, the launch of Friday L@te Nights at BAM, which will include booze, music, artsy guests and kultural stimulation of all sorts. The events below: read more »
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Alex Bigman on Friday, November 06, 2009 01:03 am
A weird foursome: could it be that teenagers prone to depression sleep less and use the internet more, resulting in worse depression and tossing them into a real nasty sleep minimizing, internet and depression maximizing situation? Of course we, sound and sturdy early twenty-somethings that we are, are far beyond silly adolescent things like all-nighters, depression and the internet. But hey, how ’bout our soft minded kid brothers and sisters? Yet another psych study gets underway: read more »
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Alex Bigman on Sunday, October 25, 2009 09:31 pm
As we all know, graduate school and money go together well with sobbing and devastation. Ahem. In the spirit of other means of expression working out a whole lot better than the verbal variety, the Dorothea Lange photo fellowship offers a $4,000 prize and wild notoriety. For the photographically inclined, keep in mind the Nov. 30 due date and Nov. 3 workshop! See if you meet the criteria: read more »
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Alex Bigman on Saturday, October 24, 2009 11:13 pm
When you’re shattering a bottle of Mickey’s against the far wall of Cloyne Court’s courtyard this weekend (or any weekend!) keep in mind that this wall is shared by a now 5 million dollars more prestigious Goldman School of Public Policy. Richard and Rhoda, your names will remain in letters.
The extra funds will allow the Goldman School to grow and develop read more »
Posted by
Alex Bigman on Thursday, October 22, 2009 07:03 pm
V(w)hat, so you think this is a profession now? It seems somebody has taken the life pursuit of so many Brooklyn-raised bubbies and established it with this name: deli researcher. And the best one is coming to Berkeley’s own Saul’s Deli! Get your pastrami on this Saturday. Details below: read more »
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