Free food. As a natural extension of Cal Day, the co-ops are opening up their in-house foodie fests to the general public for the rest of this week. If you live off culinary delights like top ramen and mayonnaise-slathered bologna sandwiches like we do, now’s your chance to stave off death by malicious triglycerides and hobnob with some hippies in the process.

Speaking of hippies, Loth’s dinner starts at 6:30 p.m. tonight, followed by Casa Zimbabwe at 7 p.m. and Afro House at 7:30 p.m. The rest of the schedule follows after the cut. read more »

Not to put a damper on your break or anything, but remember that city-wide crack in the earth that Berkeley was built on top of? Well, cautionary reports about the Hayward Fault getting set to throw a seismic shit-fit just about any year now have galvanized our usually ponderous bureaucracies to get their acts together and provide us with some emergency plans in case we were to, you know, fall into that crack and die. read more »

Cloyne is the center of innovation, experimentation and recreation. It makes sense that a co-op as large and as rambunctious as Cloyne would not only have a talent show but also upload videos of the special event.

Dance, it seems, is the clone’s art of choice. Above, we have a engaging rendition of the Evolution of Dance, deftly choreographed for multiple dancers.

Another is not so successful.

Not so fast, Napoleon wannabe. Your moves can’t match the glory of the film. In the socially-challenged teen’s words, we’d have to say “this is pretty much the worst video ever made.”

OK, so not the worst worst, but we doubt that you, the dear readers, will get through it.

Evolution of Dance, Cloyne Talent Show [YouTube]
Napoleon Dynamite at Cloyne [YouTube]

Digging through YouTube, we decided to vary our search from “UC Berkeley” to “Cloyne.” There wasn’t as much booty as we had hoped, but we did set ourselves to wondering.

What came first: the chicken …

Or the pot?

Spencer Blackhart: Drug Policy [YouTube]
Marijuana Cookies [YouTube]

Although it’s tough to move on from writing about those tireless, vote grubbing ASUCers, we really have to shift to this other breaking news: Those lovable Cheeseboardians are up to something! Those Berkeley-epitomizing co-opers recently acquired one of the buildings between the cheese and pizza shops intending to double the size of their operation. Fortunately, they were nice enough to give the Clog a tour.

Cooperative cooperator Steve Manning told us, “It’s a better quality experience for the customers with the new space. Half for them, half for us.”

The growth of this urban kibbutz should mean more options for the cheese-loving proletariat. The mysterious co-op has a stated goal of adding three to four new products but hasn’t committed to anything just yet. Salads and desserts could be in the works, but who knows with these unpredictable cheeseniks.

Cheeseborder Cathy Goldsmith says, “There are no rules, we’re really anarchists.”

The new space might even inspire these radicals to add tomato sauce to the pizzas. We apologize to the families of any Clog readers who just died from the shock.

Apparently, there has never been a moratorium on tomato sauce at the Cheeseboard; it just never had the means. With new digs, though, anything can happen.

Goldsmith puns, “Things tend to work organically in here. You hope and you have a place, but it all works in an organic way.”

Dude, that’s so blue state.

Though the co-op is experimenting with new ideas, don’t count on non-vegetarian pizza anytime soon. It says here you’ve got a better chance of seeing them name a pie after Reagan.

So when will we finally have our brand new mega Cheeseboard? Well, it should happen sometime in the summerish-maybe-kinda-we’ll-see.