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Raising the Rent at 138 Monte Cresta
The video begins with a long shot of a cement-gray apartment building. The sun is out, and a slight breeze sways the trees. Jerkily,...
Writing His Own Prescriptions
Winston Goertz-Giffen has Mennonite blood, but you wouldn't know it by looking at him: He sports a scraggly mop and a Fu Manchu moustache....
Berkeley Was Special From the Get Go
Charles Wollenberg took twenty years to write his 173-page volume, Berkeley: A City in History. That's not because he's a slow writer. He just...
Iron & Wine
Sam Beam, recording and performing under the handle Iron & Wine, has always worn the mantle of troubadour more earnestly than most musicians. Even...
Betting On Snow
In January — the middle of last year's ski season — University of Colorado scientist Mark Williams disseminated to the nation the findings of...
The Tenants’ Friend
In early May, Raul Cernas noticed that cockroaches — big ones — were parading along the floorboards of his 26th Avenue Fruitvale apartment. "It...
