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The Clog is here in Pauley Ballroom at the Q&A Townhall with the Chancellor. We’ll be liveblogging the events so stay tuned. (Note: the picture is of a pretty town hall in Vienna. It has actually nothing to do with the post. Except that it’s pretty, and I don’t have my camera with me. If you have a better picture, hook us up).
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When Black Oak Books, one of our favorite used book locations, closed its doors while mentioning vague plans to re-open, we thought they might be in store for an agonizing, drawn-out decline, à la Cody’s Books.
However, it appears that is not the case, at least not for the time being. The store has purchased a new location on San Pablo, it seems, and hopes to reopen by next month.
The new location is apparently even larger than the last, although not nearly as accessible after a stop at Cheeseboard. However, the new location might have an additional draw of incorporating a café and/or music venue into the store.
There will also be fewer new books, but the draw of the place was really the labyrinthine shelves of used books, so we’re not too worried.
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Black Oak Books Buys West Berkeley Home [Berkeley Daily Planet]
We at the Clog, intrepid explorers that we are, happened to notice that Yogurtland’s new location has opened its doors on Shattuck Avenue next to Shattuck Cinemas. New Yogurtland is read more »
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Bad news for lovers of driving into San Francisco and uncrowded BART trains; the Bay Bridge is currently closed indefinitely after pieces from a repair made over Labor Day weekend came crashing down and hit three cars. The incident took place late Tuesday afternoon and was coincidentally in the same location as a critical flaw that was discovered and repaired during the bridge’s Labor Day closure. read more »
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Ricardo Gomez (a.k.a Bearcardo) has been something of ubiquitous presence in our lives during this past semester, what with his involvement in the walkout and compulsive commenting on the Daily Cal website and the Clog. So much so that he is a known personality even among the other commenters.
As one guest put it:
I BEAT RICARDO ALBERT GOMEZ IN LEAVING A COMMENT!!!!
So who is this mysterious character? The Clog sat down with him a few weeks ago to find out.
On the off-chance, fair readers, that you have been waiting years for the opportunity to learn to bellydance, have we got an event for you.
Tomorrow at the International House, you will have the opportunity to enjoy traditional Egyptian bellydancing during a ritual dinner.
Who knows, you could pick up some inspiration for your Halloween costume, pick up some ideas for your next bellydancing recital or just enjoy the food.
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Egyptian Ritual Dinner [UC Berkeley Events Calendar]
Earlier: Scare the Living Sh*t Out of Yourself, Potentially Others
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After discovering the latest omen of the world’s coming demise, the Clog encourages Berkeley students to put down their books and enjoy their short-lived time on Earth.
In this time of economic turmoil, everybody seems to be looking for extra cash. And those people who happen to have enough cash are keeping quiet about it. But such is not the case in Germany.
A group of rich Germans have banded together to petition the government to charge them higher taxes read more »
Well, the hubbub of the walkout has subsided, but don’t you wish you had a list of chants that you could just whip out at any rally or social occasion? Lucky for you, the local CUE chapter has complied a list of “Zany Chants for Rallies.”
Here are some favorites:
BLOWN OUT FROM YOUR SONG AND DANCE?
GIVE FAIR BARGAINING A CHANCE!THINK THAT SHAFTING CUE IS CUTE?
TRY AN UNFAIR LABOR SUIT!YOUR EXCUSES ARE HYSTERICAL
FOR WHY YOU’RE SHAFTING CLERICALS!
WE’RE GETTING SICK AND GETTING TIRED!
TELL YOUR P.R.-HACKS “YOU’RE FIRED”!
Write some zany rhymes of your own in the comments.
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Zany Chants for Rallies [CUE Union]
UC Berkeley professor Richard Allen is helping to develop an earthquake warning system that could help give people a few seconds warning before an earthquake hits.
Now—given that we live in a ridiculously earthquake-prone area, read more »
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InBerkeley, a short-lived hyperlocal blogging experiment that started this summer, has now officially come to an end. The site saw 429 posts during its several-month run, but announced on Tuesday that it would be shutting down.
One of the founders, Dave Winer, goes on to explain in an interview that his experiment didn’t work out quite as well as he’d hoped, and his personal interests have moved on. But fear not— read more »
