SF News Don't Answer The Phone, Don't Open The Door Friday's incident at the Cloyne Court co-op involved a recent graduate from the stats department, who was found unresponsive in the dorm room of a friend he was visiting. An autopsy is scheduled
Arts & Entertainment F*** That Bridge: East Bay Events Over Labor Day Weekend As we mentioned here before, the Bay Bridge eastbound will be closed Labor Day weekend. For those of us who live East of the Edenic S.F., here are some cultural offerings on
SF News Cody's Books, 1956-2006 Happy 50th birthday, Cody's Books, and rest in peace, Cody's Telegraph Street -- the most iconic branch of the Cody's Books triumverate is closing for good tonight at 8 p.m. Folks are
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique Tries the Shangri-La Diet It's not what you think, the food is quite good. Inka must serve domestic sodas, but there you can try some Inka Cola, the Peruvian equivalent of Coca-Cola. If you were a sommelier
Arts & Entertainment Get Out Of My Dreams And Onto My Couch cinematic superimpositions, symbolic imagery of razors and knives, and menacing shadows create a frightening world. A professor (Werner Krauss) is driven into a state of terror by strange intense nightmares accompanied by compulsive
misc Late Registration Looks like the UC Registrar's going to have to cut some refund checks -- $33.8 million worth! A San Francisco court has ruled that the UC's fee hikes for professional students were
SF News The Heartbreak Of Reply-All There are so many good reply-all stories: the person in the office who accidentally distributes their snide response to an office-wide email; the fun-loving fake email sent to #ALL PERSONNEL from the computer
SF News Tiiiiiimber! But now that honor has been taken away, as she was suspended from Tree duty, after February 9th's Stanford-Cal basketball game. She first drew the attention of UC Berkeley 5-0 when she began
misc Doin' The Evolution Jeanne Caldwell, whose husband, Larry Caldwell runs an organization that sues schools over the teaching of evolution, filed the suit. Because it's for the kids, you know-- they might not be able to
SF News Growl on Sproul It's the UC Berkeley homecoming weekend! What better way to show off your school spirit than participating in the first annual "Growl on Sproul" contest? The Berkeley alumni association brought out a mike
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz has been in they Bay Area since 1987, when she was an undergrad at UC Berkeley. She stayed on and did a Ph.D. at Berkeley, where she edited a book
Arts & Entertainment Dowd! Friedman! It's Punditpalooza! According to Leah Garchik, the double-bill might never have happened. Dean Orville Schell got Dowd to appear and came up with the idea of adding Friedman to the bill. When he asked an
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: the Romantic-Industrial Complex Edition SFist would like to take a moment of silence for Arthur Miller, who passed away last night. Without question, Miller was one of the great American playwrights. We regret that we'd only read
Arts & Entertainment Rockin' Out with the Pixies We were reminded recently how much we love the Pixies while at Trannyshack. The weekly show at The Stud happened to be dedicated to the group, much to our surprise. Imagine a bloody
Arts & Entertainment Mourn the Birth of a Theater No, no, no, we don't mean that. We mean, go check out the opening of Last Planet Theatre's first show in its brand-new space on the border of the Civic Center and the
Arts & Entertainment Academy Fight Song The Star-Spangled Banner was written by Francis Scott Key during the War of 1812 on the back of an envelope as he saw with pride that the American flag still flew over Baltimore's
misc Labor Week: Rubbing the Wrong Way Ahhhh, nothing soothes like tension at Berkeleys Claremont Resort and Spa. Along with your signature "Mayan Temple Journey massage and exfoliation, or your "Moor Than Mud" bath, the Claremont also offers a
Arts & Entertainment Attention Cheapskates: Virgins, Whores, and Pizza in Berkeley One of SFist's favorite theater companies, Berkeley's Impact Theatre (full disclosure: one of us is heavily involved with the company, but we wouldn't be if the company weren't so damned good), launches its
