Today's Top Event: Nancy Werlin reads at Clayton Books.

Brainiac: Learn something new every day. Today's lecture: Getting Into College & Paying For It. Princeton Review seminar offers standardized test-taking, application strategies, and funding resources at Books Inc.

Is It Lunch Yet? Express food critics recommend: Blackberry Bistro in Oakland.

On the Town: Going out tonight? Another great - and dirt-cheap - lineup at Oakland's Stork Club: Slow Dynamite, Jealousy, and Meho Plaza.

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

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