Today's Top Event: The Richmond Art Center's new series of spring exhibitions opens.

Brainiac: Learn something new every day. Today's lecture: Iraq, Iran, and the Bush Agenda: The Danger of Wider War, the Challenge of Preventing It, and the Urgency of a New Global Dynamic, with lecturer and author Larry Everest at UC Berkeley's Barrows Hall, Lipman Room.

Is It Lunch Yet? Express food critic John Birdsall recommends: the Smokehouse in Berkeley.

On the Town: Going out tonight? Boogie in Berkeley with Tee Fee Swamp Boogie at Ashkenaz.

Hardly Working: You've got time. We know how to waste it. Check out CheddarVision.

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