Today's Ypulse Guest Post is from David Moon, a recent graduate from the University of Adelaide.  I had the pleasure of meeting David when he spent his year abroad studying at UC Berkeley and as an American Studies major, I thought he would have some interesting insights towards how the campus cult...

(photo by Jonathan Hung) Please please please stop sleeping on this band y'all.  The Splinters, a Berkeley-based all-girl group whose tunes we called "decidedly lo-fi near-two minute rollicks" are finally back with great news both about new tracks (9!) to come and dates with destiny next week. We s...

Hoisted from comments: Joe S.: I'm a lawyer. I agree with Brian. The smoking gun has long been in plain sight: Yoo's omission of Youngstown Sheet & Tube in his torture memo. The recent release merely adds to it. However, as a lawyer, let me point out something else. It will be extremely hard to conv...

Part of an ongoing series “MBA in Finance: Forget It?” My question: Given the weakness in investment banking, hedge funds, and financial services in general, how do you react to applicants who say they want an MBA to enter IB, PE or a related field that has been devastated by the economi...

This will not be a banner precipitation season for California--though always keep your eye out for the neighbor building boats and inviting in pairs of every creature. But that doesn't mean it is without interest. For starters, it could well be a significantly below-par year for rain and snow here, ...

Hands off! Spines aside, the prickly pears at Santa Rosa's Luther Burbank Gardens, and the ripening red "tuna" atop the cactus paddles, will almost certainly be spared from harvest. Gelateria Naia does, however, rely on fresh, local fruit — often prunings and farm surplus — to produce its artisa...

There’s more info on the Park Slope School House, which is replacing the Berkeley Carroll Child Care Center, which was closed down by the elite Park Slope School, with especially shoddy treatment of its employees. The new non-profit formed to run the new child care center is giving all those e...

After work, I walked from the radio station, at Mariposa and Bryant streets, over Potrero Hill, down to south of Market, all the way to the Bay, then up to the Oakland ferry. It's about three and a quarter miles. The walk does lots of things, and one of them is to open up the city to view. After wor...

What relevance and use does a work like Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (1848), "Manifesto of the Communist Party" have to twenty-first century economists today? ---- Remember: Two hard copies, and one soft copy emailed to me at delong@econ.berkeley.edu...

Ah, California, that prodigious producer of fruits, nuts, and flakes. Alice Waters, the famous Chez Panisse chef, has seized on the national craze for bailouts to demand organic, unprocessed school lunches for all. How like a Californian to seize on a trend early: Wall Street and Detroit are getting...