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Iris Kwok

Berkeley
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reporting @latimes • past: @berkeleyside • sometime cellist 📰🎻

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Iris Kwok’s Biography

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Berkeleyside environment reporter and Report for America corps member. Sometimes a music journalist and cellist.

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UC strike: Parent workers tell Cal 'learn to share'

UC strike: Parent workers tell Cal 'learn to share'

UC Berkeley graduate students who are also parents — among the last to still be on the picket line in a month…

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Berkeley remembers William Evans, veteran hit and killed by truck driver

Berkeley remembers William Evans, veteran hit and killed by truck driver

About three dozen people gathered at the corner of Shattuck Avenue and Bancroft Way Tuesday night to protest …

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Berkeley Hills homeowner fined for using too much water during drought

Berkeley Hills homeowner fined for using too much water during drought

A Berkeley Hills homeowner with a job related to environmental sustainability has been fined for using too mu…

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Berkeley Symphony opens season Sunday with music of 2 Black composers, born a century-plus apart

Berkeley Symphony opens season Sunday with music of 2 Black composers, born a century-plus apart

The Berkeley Symphony's season-opening concert on Sunday, Oct. 16, conducted by Music Director Joseph Young, …

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Meet the 2 candidates running for the AC Transit board's at-large seat

Meet the 2 candidates running for the AC Transit board's at-large seat

In his bid for a fourth term on the AC Transit Board of Directors, Joel Young faces a serious challenger in B…

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Perceptions of Freedom Overlap and Collide in FRE!HEIT

Perceptions of Freedom Overlap and Collide in FRE!HEIT

Forty-nine porcelain ramekins — the kind you'd normally use to bake a souffle — will become an instrument for…

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Big Sur wildfires shut down Hwy 1

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By Iris Kwok
| The Mercury News Verified
By Iris Kwok | Los Angeles Times With firefighters already struggling to contain the Timber fire in Big Sur, California, a second wildfire in the region grew rapidly Friday and into Saturday sending flames in the direction of Highway 1.
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Twin Big Sur wildfires shut down Highway 1 as new blaze races toward coast

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By Iris Kwok
| The Brunswick News Verified
With firefighters already struggling to contain the Timber fire in Big Sur, California, a second wildfire in the region grew rapidly Friday and into Saturday - sending flames in the direction of Highway 1. The Plaskett fire, which ignited Tuesday in a remote area about 30 miles down the coast from where the Timber fire started, exploded from about 140 acres Thursday to roughly 5,924 acres by Saturday morning, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
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SoCal man allegedly took a guillotine to Washington. Was it a political statement or an art piece?

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By Iris Kwok
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A Southern California man who had a guillotine in the back of his pickup truck was arrested Tuesday near the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, authorities said. U.S. Capitol Police on Tuesday said officers had arrested a 35-year-old San Diego County man on suspicion of carrying a dangerous weapon — the guillotine.
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