Beauty and truth aren't the first things that come to mind, for most people, when they think about math. Berkeley math professor Edward Frenkel is trying to change that.

By Pat Craig It's not the most high-powered film-publicity juggernaut, but it could be the most sincere.

By Pat Craig THEATER IS STUCK with the bad rap of being the dusty repository of previous centuries' art.

By Dino-Ray Ramos, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif. Mar. 12--WHEN THE CINEMATIC seed of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival was planted in 1982, the event presented 13 films, finally giving Asian filmmakers a well-deserved artistic outlet.

BERKELEY -- A woman who was struck and killed by an Amtrak train over the weekend has been identified as 59-year-old Melinda Jane Morales, of Berkeley, an Alameda County Coroner's Office spokesman said Monday. Morales was hit by the Amtrak Capital Corridor train No. 747 at 7:25 p.m.