In a normal year, the Bay Area Book Festival takes place amid the first sunny days of May. Crowds of tens of thousands circulate among booths lining the streets and authors from around the world speak in auditoriums about their newest works.
As one of the industries hit hardest by COVID-19, restaurants are unostentatiously fighting to overcome hindrances posed by the pandemic lifestyle people have adjusted to.
“We’re having a bit of a struggle,” said Macey Keung as she tossed aside a broken package. Keung is a former Berkeley High School student and soon-to-be University of California San Diego freshman.
The brain is at one of its most pivotal stages of development during the teenage years, rendering it especially susceptible to the impact of social and emotional changes that teenagers experience.
Holidays. When I think of them, my mind swirls back to those hazy nights when I would carefully descend the stairs to the living room and stare up at the little fabric Santa poking out of the fabric chimney that was nestled atop the lit Christmas tree.
Not long ago, I asked that you “imagine being cooped up in a hotel room. Sitting and looking out your window, down into the empty streets through which only every few minutes does a car pass.
On January 28, 1969, Union Oil’s Santa Barbara oil well blew. The oil leak penetrated the floor of the Pacific Ocean in multiple places and spread over 50 miles.
Would you celebrate anything with quiet? In Bali, the Day of Silence or Nyepi is how the Balinese inaugurate their New Year. Bali is a small tropical island in Indonesia.
Imagine being cooped up in a hotel room. Sitting and looking out your window, down into the empty streets through which only every few minutes does a car pass.
Down come the decorations and back with the bland, unadorned furniture. Relatives have packed their bags and sing promises of return. Lights are taken down from rooftops and stored away — not to be seen until another year has elapsed.
