Today's Top Event: The Shotgun Players The Forest War at the Ashby Stage in Berkeley.

Brainiac: Learn something new every day. Today's lecture: Poet Bob Perelman reads with Mia You in the Maude Fife Room in UC Berkeley's Wheeler Hall

Is It Lunch Yet? Express food critic John Birdsall recommends: Won Thai in Hercules.

On the Town: Going out tonight? Chill out on the dark leather couches with a Mango Mojito at Silk Road Restaurant & Lounge.

Hardly Working: You've got time. We know how to waste it. Check out Can You Pass the Third Grade?

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