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After two years, though, Ganz decided to take some time off. He went home to California, where he spent eight months working in Berkeley, a hotbed of student activism...
Ganz, who spent much of his free time that year on the University of California at Berkeley campus, says he "got turned on to the music scene...
...core is a gruesome cautionary tale, aptly retitled Greed by Erich Von Stroheim when he made a nine-hour film of it in 1923. The book is both bad and great, its prose lopsided and its effects crude, its power and pathos undiminished. In adapting it anew, California's Berkeley Repertory Theater has retained all the virtues and many of the faults. The first half of Neal Bell's script seems wayward, slow and sometimes cute, in part because director Sharon Ott opts for a too stylized manner of acting. The second half is riveting. This is a story...
...500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' voyage to the Americas, Berkeley will put a new twist in its official calendar. While the rest of the country is observing Columbus Day next Oct. 12, Berkeley will inaugurate "Indigenous Peoples Day," becoming the first U.S. city to change the name and focus of the holiday. Traditionally, says Berkeley Mayor Lonni Hancock, Columbus Day celebrations have been "Eurocentric and ignored the brutal realities of the colonization of indigenous peoples." The new holiday, vows Hancock, will provide "an accurate history" of the explorer's discoveries and show how they led to the conquest and destruction...
...manages to do it without generating mountains of paper. His plan for this week's cover story was outlined in a dozen or so brief phrases on a single sheet. He admits he will break discipline for important matters, like taking time off last Wednesday to tune in Berkeley's 37-13 stomping of Clemson in the Citrus Bowl. But he is reassuring: "I wasn't distracted for long, since they had the game won in the first quarter...