University of California-Berkeley

Continued Riches for the Rich and a Sobering Message for Everyone Else in Inequality for All

The Carpenters Union Lottery Offers a Shot at the Middle Class

Tom Finkel Named as Editor of the Village Voice

Voice Media Group announced today that veteran editor Tom Finkel will take the reins of the Village Voice later this summer.

Michael Pollan Launches $10K Food Journalism Fellowships at UC Berkeley

Excellent news for food journalism: UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism is now offering five $10,000 fellowships a year, for early and mid-career journalists to travel and report longform stories on a range of food subjects, from nutritional policy and food science, to technology, culture, a ... More >>

Reading Around: Fantasies, Tamed and Not

Elizabeth Hand's Errantry, Jon Peterson's history of Dungeons & Dragons and role-playing games

Testament's Alex Skolnick Went From Geek to Guitar God

'Hero' worship

Goodbye, Affirmative Action?

A Supreme Court case has colleges considering how to stay diverse if race-based admissions is axed

Why Do Mexicans Change Their Names, Seemingly at Whim?

New York City Dorms Are Insanely Expensive

wikipediaThe room and board is too damn high -- especially at The New School.​In last week's cover story on student debt at NYU, we noted that part of the issue is that New York City is just a very expensive place to live. Illustrating that point, a list released today of the most expensive c ... More >>

The People You Date Are the People You Can Date, Science Says

Spoiler: This film has no basis in science.​Good news for people who date people! Generally, the people you want to date are people who might want to date you, people of the same "desirability" and/or "hotness"! Does this, perhaps, seem sort of untrue based on your recent dating history? Well, ... More >>

It's Complicated: American Jewish Identity Explored in Between Two Worlds

Julia Cho's Tale of the Tongue

Our interview with The Language Archive playwright

Word's Largest California Roll at UMass Amherst

UMass breaks world record for longest California roll from Daily Collegian on Vimeo.Students at UMass Amherst broke UC Berkley's longest-California-roll record on Monday, assembling a 422-foot monster of imitation crab and avocado. But then they threw it away! Apparently they thought the 200 pounds ... More >>

A Brief History of Vijay Iyer

The jazz pianist's new Solo details a lifetime of out-of-body experiences

Who Smeared Dave Weigel?

​Yesterday afternoon, The Washington Post's conservative blogger, Dave Weigel, resigned. This was following the leak of some emails detailing his personal political views to a DC hack-gossip named Betsy Rothstein and bowtied blowhard Tucker Carlson's website, The Daily Caller. The emails were ... More >>

John Yoo, Jay Bybee of Bush's DOJ Are Off the Hook for Torture Memos

​Despite a conflicting opinion from their own Office of Professional Responsibility, the Justice Department announced on Friday that Jay Bybee, the head of the Office of Legal Counsel under George W. Bush, and John Yoo, one of his deputies, did not commit professional misconduct when they gave ... More >>

FATHER FIGURE

Lee does Lear

The Disorientalism of Continuous City

A high-tech troupe tries some digital globe-hopping

A CIA Lawyer's Smoking Gun

Interrogators were told: 'If a detainee dies, you're doing it wrong.'

Hunts Point: Where To Eat (With Strippers)

A foodie's tour through the neighborhood that feeds the city and the nation

Best and Worst of Sex 2007

Tristan's annual roundup of toothbrush vibrators, anti-porn ribbons, and a kinky kingdom

After Nature

The world's most dangerous architect has his say

Hair Traffic

Your extensions look hot—except maybe for the roots

On Rumsfeld's Watch

A PBS documentary names U.S. torture commanders

Coalition of the Unwilling

Counter-recruiters arm potential GI's with facts about the war in Iraq

Body Politics

The wheel world: Is disability studies academia's next frontier?

PH.Dotcom

What if professors could lecture 24-7? Blog culture invades academia.

Kids in the Thrall

You make chump change. And Congress likes it that way.

Spy Another Day

Are spooks getting purged for others' leaks? Inside the White House war on information

Dance

That's Entrail-Tainment!

What's worse—getting tortured at Abu Ghraib, or volunteering for Fear Factor?

Lingua Bancarupta

Magazine Returns From the Grave, Suing

TV Funhouse

Rooming With Dawson, Screech, and the 90210 Crowd

Wristy Business

Ways Computer Users Can Avoid Carpal Tunnel

The Strokes

Spanking the Modern Monkey

Orienting the East

U. Michigan Psychologist Richard Nisbett Asks: Do Asians and Westerners Think Differently?

War Games

New Media Finds Its Place in the New World Order

June Jordan, 1936–2002

Stop American Billions for Israeli Bombs

Anti-Occupation Activists Question U.S. Aid

Romancing the Republic

Disney and the U.S. Military Whitewash Pearl Harbor and Woo Patriots

Tales of the Kefir Furnaceman

• • • A Roving Ethnographer’s View From the Factory Floor

Passing for Normal at Santa Cruz

Red-Letter Day for a Counterculture Experiment

The New Math on Race

The Fight to End Campus Affirmative Action

Take This Down

Unauthorized Lecture-Note Sites Draw Profs’ Fire

The Ling Thing

'Ally McBeal' Uses Ancient Oriental Secret

Through the Carpal Tunnel

Tired of Typing? Slip on Some Cyborg Gloves.

Jingle Hells

Kiki and Herb's Blight Christmas

Prison Politics

Angela Davis takes on the criminal justice system

When the ACLU Supports Discrimination

'Diversity Cannot Continue by Crude Racial Categories'