Berkeley’s Grassroots House helps send boat to Gaza
By Jane Stillwater The Berkeley Barb used to be my hometown’s most famous “newspaper of record” and we also had another hometown rag called Grassroots. However both these papers have been out of print...
View ArticleShooting for posterity: Berkeley’s ‘Seven Days in May’
John Jekabson may have missed the summer of love, but he was in the thick of the “Seven Days of May” which saw Berkeley occupied by the National Guard under a state of emergency in 1969. His...
View ArticleMade in Berkeley: Along Came a Spider
Made for TV movies have a terrible reputation. Network staples from the mid-‘60s until the late ‘80s, these anodyne films generally featured low production values (including unimaginative scoring,...
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How Quirky was Berkeley? Religion on Telegraph Avenue
Berkeley, especially Berkeley of the 1960s, enjoys a reputation as a predominantly secular city. We may be less religious than the United States as a whole, but religion plays a strong and important...
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‘Blade Runner’ screenwriter made lost film of Moe’s Books
The film of a 1965 party at Moe’s Books that was recently discovered in the Berkeley dump was made by an Academy Award nominated screenwriter who was just starting out in the business when he shot the...
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Berkeley’s radical rag celebrates its 50th anniversary
In 1965, a bar owner named Max Scherr stitched together a small leftist publication he called The Berkeley Barb. The “I” key on his typewriter was broken, so he drew the letter by hand each time it...
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