Today’s Top Event: John Micklethwait, the new editor of The Economist, drops by UC Berkeley’s Wheeler Auditorium to shoot the breeze with J-school dean Orville Schell on The View from Abroad: Is America Broken?
Brainiac: Learn something new every day. Today’s lecture: Celebrate Wilhelm Grimm’s birthday at Dougherty Station Library in San Ramon with storytelling and a screening of Disney’s Cinderella.
Is It Lunch Yet? Express food critic John Birdsall recommends: Razan’s Organic Kitchen in Berkeley.
On the Town: Going out tonight? Get your freakbeat on at the Ruby Room, where Jarrett Prayers spins new wave, Northern soul, and punk rock.
Hardly Working: You’ve got time. We know how to waste it. Check out Interior Desecrations.
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