Today’s Top Event: Man of La Mancha at Lesher Center for the Arts.
Brainiac: Learn something new every day. Today’s lecture: Two Views: James Baldwin. With New Yorker staff writer Hilton Als at UC Berkeley’s Maude Fife Room.
Is It Lunch Yet? Express food critics recommend: Uzen in Oakland.
On the Town: Going out tonight? Drop by Beckett’s in Berkeley for acoustic folk-rock courtesy of Sacramento’s 2Me.
Hardly Working: You’ve got time. We know how to waste it. Check out the hipster olympics.
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