Posts By Cassandra Stephens
Berkeley’s Newest: Attempts on Her Life
October 14, 2011 | Cassandra Stephens | One Comment Blood, needles, pills litter the floor. Glass and shredded paper is thrown onto the mess by a cross-dressing man wearing lipstick and chains. A doctor measures a stripped woman and recites numbers aloud so they mix, clash against a string of words spoken by a woman in high-heeled lace-up boots pacing Read More
Comfort Food Meets Vegetarian: Saturn Cafe
October 3, 2011 | Cassandra Stephens Organic, home-cooked vegetarian cuisine sits atop PETA-postered tables, tattooed arms reach over pink vinyl booths, local artwork finds its way over glittery walls, kids twirl on barstools and couples laugh as they share organic fair-trade coffee shakes. Berkeley, meet Saturn Café. If you haven’t Read More
Berkeley’s Little Italy: Uncle Dougie’s Sandwich Shop
September 6, 2011 | Cassandra Stephens | 2 Comments Berkeley welcomed a new addition to its restaurant collection over the summer with the opening of Uncle Dougie’s Sandwich Shop on Bowditch and Channing. Their grand opening on July 25th signified an introduction of authentic Italian ‘heroes,’ brought 3,000 miles west from Read More
Another Year: Forgotten?
July 15, 2011 | Cassandra Stephens | 2 Comments I’m laying on the floor, sun burnt and sticky, reading the fading pages of my childhood. I feel that nothing has changed; I still wear summery dresses with tanned legs and sandy feet, I still dress up with jewelry I find in my mother’s jewelry box and I still stay up late writing, writing, Read More
