The Helen Diller Anchor House in downtown, a 772-bed dorm for transfer students, represents the largest gift in Cal’s history.
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Joanne Furio
Joanne Furio is a longtime journalist and writer of creative nonfiction. Originally from New York, she has been a staff writer, an editor and a freelance magazine writer. More recently, she was a contributing writer at San Francisco magazine for a decade, covering design, culture and style. Over the years, her work has appeared frequently in The New York Times, New York Newsday, The Village Voice, Ms., Dwell and Landscape Architecture.
Berkeley’s last movie house now offering prosciutto and champagne in bid to hang on
After surviving a fire, a flood, an earthquake and a poodle crash, the Rialto Cinemas in Elmwood hopes a new menu will keep audiences coming.
Berkeley’s heyday as a movie town
Home to the first U.S. film journal, a world-renowned film archive and over 30 movie theaters and repertory houses — Berkeley’s celluloid legacy is celebrated in an exhibit on view at the historical society.
Berkeley author’s book on ‘becoming Gandhi’ has a foreword by the Dalai Lama
Plus: A first work of fiction by PBS News Hour’s Elizabeth Farnsworth and other new novels, short stories, poetry, nonfiction and children’s books by Berkeley writers.
New book ‘Boymom’ reimagines boyhood in an age of ‘impossible masculinity’
Ruth Whippman interviewed incels, sat down with conservatives who blame feminists for the demasculinization of men and had her liberal Berkeley beliefs challenged at a conference for boys accused of sexual violence.
Heyday books at 50: The page-turning tale of a Berkeley original
Founder Malcolm Margolin wrote, designed, typeset and laid out the first Heyday book from a rented house in Berkeley in 1974. Fifty years later the press is moving beyond its regional focus while remaining grounded in the hippie ethos that inspired its beginnings.
East Bay home tours feature architects from Berkeley and Oakland
From a twice-remodeled house in the Berkeley Hills to a new Albany home designed to accommodate the needs of a disabled daughter, the five homes on the American Institute of Architects’ annual tour will open their doors to the public on Saturday
Bay Area Book Festival returns to Berkeley for its 10th anniversary
The festival will turn downtown into a haven for book lovers on June 1-2. Family Day is Saturday, May 4, at the Berkeley Public Library’s main branch.
A baker’s dozen of new books with Berkeley ties to read this spring
Memoirs about a mentally disabled man whose last year is spent with his loving sister and artistic Berkeley community and hippie narratives that recount Berkeley’s glory days in the 1960s and ’70s are some of the recent books with links to Berkeley.
A fire in the Berkeley Hills forces reckoning over wealth inequality in pointed new novel
In Sarah Ruiz-Grossman’s ‘A Fire So Wild,’ the homes of rich, hypocritical Berkeley Hills liberals burn down — as does the Rose Garden — in a wildfire that forces residents “to reckon with the cracks in the lives they’ve built.”
She fled Afghanistan at 14. Now, she uses 5 languages to help other newcomer classmates at Berkeley High
In 2021, Farhat Noorzad, her parents and her four brothers escaped Afghanistan with just a small backpack between them. The 16-year-old just received a citywide “kindness” award for helping other refugee and immigrant students.
Charmian London, literary adventurer, galloped through the Berkeley Hills in 1890s
Not just Jack London’s wife, she advocated for socialism and a free-love lifestyle she observed growing up on Parker Street. The first biography placing her in the spotlight is now an audiobook.