Summer 2018 – Our Town
Our Town
Features
Houses in the Hills
How Berkeley’s early bohemians built the beginnings of a counterculture.
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150 Years of Town & Gown
The city of Berkeley and its relationship to the school it grew up around.
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The Legend of Grover Krantz
Anthropologist Grover Krantz had a larger than life obsession with the legendary Bigfoot.
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The Strange but True Story of the Einsteins of Berkeley
A comic book treatment of a tragicomic tale.
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Lab + Field
All Hopped Up
Berkeley researchers may be able to make hoppy beer without hops.
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Five Questions for David Patterson
David Patterson, world’s strongest Turing laureate.
A Deep Dive into Human Evolution
Study of “sea nomads” reveals a surprising adaptation.
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Seeing the Way Forward
Visualizing telomerase could change medicine.
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Arts + Letters
Opera Untucked
Begun as a geologist’s labor of love, West Edge Opera company is a cultural gem.
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Sather Gate
Talk of the Town
Q&A with former Cal student and current Berkeley Mayor, Jesse Arreguín
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Chancellor’s Letter
Developing People’s Park
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Five Questions for Richard Schwartz
Berkeley historian talks about his new biography of M. B. Curtis.
By Pat Joseph
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Out of the Gate
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Columnist
A narrow brush with a high-ranking Russian spy.
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Perspectives
Share Your Own Insight
Have a perspective on the topic that we somehow failed to include? Share it with us now.
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Editor’s Note
“For most of the last ten years, this spot has been home.”
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