Sunday Shout-Out picks out the week’s stories that simply slipped our minds.
* Remember that emerging Berkeley blog we warned you about? Well, it’s here, and it’s reporting, like, last year’s news.
* We weren’t the only ones who upchucked a little in our mouths over Panda Express, and now one blog wants you to nag the Man about it.
* Even AC Transit insists you register to vote with its giant bus o’ vote. The California deadline is Oct. 20.
* The Arts blog has got your back … and your October concert line-up.
Image Source: Fayzan Gowana, Daily Cal
Earlier: More Politics More Than Usual
Today marks the first day of a full week of campus activities and events for The Campaign for Berkeley. The schedule will be jam-packed with concerts, a music festival, a poetry reading, quiz bowl, tours and open houses all throughout campus. UC Regents and program planners are targeting an audience of all ages, shapes, colors, cultures, denominations, education levels and, oh yeah, donor capacities. So tell your rich Uncle Sal to meet us for Story Hour at Morrison Library. Afterwards he can live it up - all the way up - with free rides to the top of the campanile. See here for a full list of events that will take place on campus.
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The Campaign for Berkeley [Web site]
Get your browsers ready and flex your quick-like-lightning Telebears appointment muscles, because presale tickets will be available at Ticketmaster at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 7. We’ve received a tip from an unreliable source (the digital grapevine) that the magic word of the day will be “polaroid.”
Jason Mraz (a.k.a. the coolest scatting cat in the music biz) will be performing at the Greek Theatre on Sunday, Nov. 2 at 3 p.m.
To be honest, the first wave of internet presale tickets were up for grabs at the end of last month, but they closed those flood gates not too long afterward. A quick Google search will also lead you to a few lesser-known ticket distributors who claim to be selling tickets right now, but buy at your own risk. Or just bring your laptop to class tomorrow morning and try not to yell with joy/fury as you click-click-click at 10 a.m. sharp.
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As the bigger summer concerts around the bay wind down, you may be itching for the simpler, freer and more classical lunchtime performances of yesteryear, which the music department usually hosts every Wednesday right here on campus. Don’t mourn their absence too much–the noon concerts are currently on hiatus and plan to tear up Hertz Hall in full force come fall semester.
Until then, you can catch free noon performances (albeit jazzy, street-style ones) at the Downtown Berkeley BART plaza. Various esteemed jazz performers grace the plaza from 12 to 1 p.m. every Thursday, possibly inciting jealousy in Berkeley ’s other resident street performers. Check ‘em out before the plaza goes silent on Aug. 21.
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Downtown Berkeley Association - Summer Noon Concerts 2008 [Website]
Earlier: Visit the New Museum in the City
Summer’s winding down and school is fast approaching, but that doesn’t mean you can’t squeeze in one last hurrah before the fun is done. You could always go to the Vans Warped Tour, but we think you’re better than that. At least one should hope so.
Monday, Aug. 4
* The Faint, Fillmore, 9 p.m.
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If Boy George isn’t the greatest entertainer on the planet, then damn, we must be in another galaxy. Here’s a list of players and singers who’ll heat things up just as the summer fog rolls into the bay.
Friday, July 18
* Boy George, Grand Ballroom at the Regency Center in San Francisco, 9 p.m.
* Jimmy Eat World, Fillmore, 9 p.m.
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The best part about summer in Berkeley is the concerts, especially when someone really good plays at the Greek Theatre and you can listen on the hill for free. This month we bring you concert to-do’s, the most interesting shows around the Bay Area.
Note: This is not an extensive list but rather a list of what we thought looked good. Feel free to comment and add your own to-do.
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