Looking for a grand(ish) gesture to sweep your sulky English major girlfriend off her feet? Do her banking. Make her breakfast. Fix her car. Mix her a drink. Then BART on over to Embarcadero tomorrow night for a super-exclusive advance screening of the 2009 Sundance award-winning film “An Education.”

It’s the story of an Oxford-bound Londoner whose delightfully taboo love affair with a man old enough to be her father catapults her into an identity crisis similar to the protagonist’s struggle in your girlfriend’s latest short story, which she totally ripped off from Graham Greene, but you told her you loved it anyway. In a Nabokov-meets-Anais Nin sort of way.

Why she’ll be excited? The film was read more »

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Tags:An Education, Embarcadero, John Cusack, Judith Butler, Nick Hornby, San Francisco, the Believer
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Judith Butler, famous for her book “Gender Trouble” and her theory of “gender performativity” won the Mellon award for outstanding scholarship in the humanities back in March and the whopping  $1.5 million that goes along with it.

No, she’s not buying a yacht or putting it savings in preparation for impending financial doom, she’s decided to create a “Thinking Critically About War” project here at Berkeley. She describes the purpose as such: read more »

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