Like a Clogger recently said, Berkeley just loves congratulating itself on green superiority. Actually, we tend to congratulate ourselves on our superiority in general. The Berkeley History Center’s newest exhibit, “Berkeley, a City of Firsts,” is the latest museum research collection to do just that–laying history out for us as proof that Berkeley’s willingness to be crazy and innovative is a good thing.

Here are a few things that appear on the “Berkeley’s got it, so now we’re gonna flaunt it,” timeline:

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Remember Tom Bates? Easy to villainize the man who steals free newspapers, but if he and two other councilmembers get their way, drivers will be feeding their precious laundry quarters into parking meters until 10 o’clock at night. [Berkeley Daily Planet]

The Wells Fargo Building in downtown Shattuck has been sold to the heirs of the Hills Brother Coffee fortune. Did you know the building is secretly a venerable Berkeley landmark in disguise? [Berkeley Daily Planet]

This year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards go to Nezar AlSayyad (architecture), Karl Ashoka Britto (French and comparative literature), Stefano DellaVigna (economics) and Kaja Silverman (rhetoric and film studies). In the Awards No One Cares About category, the grand prize winner is … [Berkeley News]

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