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M.V. Lee Badgett is an accessible scholar. With a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California/ Berkeley, she practices her motto as a Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst and as a Williams Distinguished Scholar at UCLA’s Williams Institute, which she helped co-found and where she served as the first research director.

The owners of the beloved Hollywood music store say they are "heartbroken" that they will not be returning to the same premises

Beloved California independent record store chain Amoeba Music has launched a GoFundme campaign in an effort to keep its Berkeley, San Francisco and Los Angeles outlets afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. The effort to raise $400,000 comes as the 30-year-old chain faces its hardest times to date."30 years ago, Amoeba Music founders Dave Prinz and Marc Weinstein had a crazy idea.

All around the same time in late March — as novel coronavirus outbreaks worsened around the United States — Westworld actor Jeffrey Wright started a nonprofit in Brooklyn, New York; in Berkeley, California, novelist-producer couple Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon sprang into action with a like-minded initiative; and in Los Angeles, a group of execs — including Discovery’s Erin Arend, HBO senior vp Nora Skinner, Hello Sunshine CEO Sarah Harden, and Magnet Companies’ Jeff Berman — came together

The first teaser for the Saved By The Bell reboot is here!

Manchester born and bred, George Farrugia worked at restaurants including Room on King Street, before moving to London to work for legendary French chef Pierre Koffmann at his eponymous restaurant in The Berkeley Hotel.

Buzzy Linhart, a mainstay of the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 1960s and ’70s, died on February 13 in Berkeley, California, the New York Times reports. Linhart’s health had been in decline since a 2018 heart attack. He was 76.

Thirty years ago this April, a manic little trio crawled out from the Berkeley, California punk scene to release its debut LP: an emphatic set of three-chord ragers called 39/Smooth that, while exciting, certainly did not portend one of the most successful careers in rock history.But after six Platinum-certified albums, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction and a laundry list of enduring pop-punk and arena-rock smashes, Green Day remains one of the genre’s biggest names -- and a band with

Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger apologized on Thursday after an elementary school in Berkeley, Calif., was fined by the corporation for showing “The Lion King” during a movie night fundraiser.

Bob Iger on Thursday apologized after Disney fined a parent teacher association in Berkeley, California, for showing The Lion King during a "parents' night out" fundraiser for the elementary school.Disney's licensing company, Movie Licensing USA, sent a letter to the school last month saying it needed to pay $250 for showing the 2019 film during the event, CNN reported."One of the dads bought the movie at Best Buy," PTA president David Rose told CNN. "He owned it.

By Dade Hayes

Anger over plans for a television series about a deadly warehouse fire in the San Francisco Bay Area has led a husband-and-wife writing team to scuttle the project for now. The Berkeley, California-based authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman said Saturday (Dec.