Golden Nuggets: Pizza, NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP WATCH PARTY, UC Berkeley enters the Gubernatorial Race
I've always laughed at Gubernatorial. What a silly word.
Hello and welcome to Golden Nuggets, our weekly recap article where we try to highlight all the fun, funny, or interesting things you might have missed roughly over the last week across Bear Territory (the whole damn world of course). Think of it like a cheat sheet for small talk about Cal.
Main Course: PIZZA PIZZA
I’m writing this before dinner so I’m a little hungry right now, but we start this week with news that the new Rose Pizzeria opened in the Richmond over in San Francisco! Rose Pizzeria started in Berkeley and rose to fame last summer after the New York Times put the restaurant on the 22 Best Pizza Places in the US and the SF Chronicle gave it a glowing review. Read more about the hottest new pizza in San Francisco in SFist.
HEADLANDS RUGBY WATCH PARTY
In case your domicile is subterranean, you might not know that this weekend, Cal Rugby is headed to Indianapolis to attempt to repeat as National Champions in the College Rugby Association of America National Championship! You can probably still get a ticket to Indy, but if you can’t, you’re more than welcome to join some Write For California folks and other Rugby fans on campus at Headlands at the National Championship Watch Party! Between 3 PM and 7 PM, you get 20% off pitchers! If I’m mathing correctly, you can basically drink 5 pitchers of beer for the price of 4 Now that’s Bear’s Lair math if I’ve ever seen it.
Hot Links
Happy Earth Day (again!)
Berkeley News profiled Assistant Professor David J.X. Gonzalez out of the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and learned about his research looking into how a changing environment impacts human health. Read the profile and important research here!
Berkeley Beats Stanford In…The Big Law?
As part of the Order on the Court game between Berkeley Law and Stanford Law, law students compete and raise funds for Berkeley Law’s Summer Public Interest Fellowship Fund which supports aspiring lawyers working in public interest (for government, non-profit, or state or federal judges). Read the recap here!
Small Bites
Did you make it to Cal Night with the Giants last week? Cal Band did!
The new Shake Shack finally opened! While I’m glad, I’ll see you all at Bongo Burger.
A UC Berkeley Professor has entered the California gubernatorial race, because the field wasn’t crowded enough.
Did you know that Mike Myers (Oh behave!) brother Paul Myers lives in Berkeley? And this past year he wrote a biography on John Candy? I recently read it and because its within city limits I can include it here!
Softball celebrated Senior Day.
Beach Volleyball celebrated Senior Day.
This Week in eCommerce
Do you have trouble knowing what time it is? Which might lead you to arriving late to a game? This week in eCommerce, we found you, the Oski Clock!
Never suffer from Berkeley Time again because you’ll always be on Berkeley Time!
Golden Bear Honors
Fryderyk Lechno-Wasiutynski (Men’s Tennis) was named Second Team All-ACC
Women’s Gymnastics had 7 All-ACC Academic Team members
Berta Passola Folch and Johanne Svendsen (Women’s Tennis) were named to the First and Third Team All-ACC
Cal Track and Field had numerous All-ACC Academic members
Ziqin Zhou (Men’s Golf) won the ACC Championship Individual Title
Julia Bonaguidi, Eszter Varro, and Abbi Magee (Women’s Water Polo) were named to the NCAA All-Tournament First and Second Teams
Cal Pros Recap
Football
Hezekiah Masses was drafted in the 5th Round by the Raiders. Jacob De Jesus signed with the Chiefs. TJ Bollers signed with the Jaguars. Brent Austin signed with the Broncos. Aidan Keanaaina signed with the Lions. And Fernando Mendoza went #1 Overall. Congrats to everyone!
Basketball
The Eastern Conference Playoffs started as the Jaylen Brown and the Celtics head to Philadelphia for Game 6 up 3-2. Jaylon Tyson made his case against the Raptors has they head back to Cleveland up 3-2 for Game 6.
And so we find ourselves again at the end of another beautiful, perfect, Golden Nuggets. Thanks again for reading and hope to see you next week!
My personal favorite Berkeley pizzeria is Emeilia’s - world’s most annoying ordering system but one-man pizza nerd operation turns out some amazing and expensive pizzas