berkeley (calif.)

New college graduate Stevie, an African-American woman, takes a trip to San Francisco and decides to leave Chicago behind forever as she dives into the 70s scene of disco, women's liberation, sexual revolution, and love.

Tackling the challenges of college while her mother battles cancer, Ariel struggles with memories of her friend who disappeared years earlier and finds answers in relationships with three residents of an old house in Berkeley.

Contains a collection of slang words from African American, Chicano, Jewish, sports, movie, hip hop, and drug sub-culture as well as words from the 1960s beatniks generation to show how different cultures and communities have communicated over the years.

LP-obsessed Allie works at the used record store on Telegraph Avenue and deals with crushes and her increasingly popular blog and zine, and generally grows up over the course of one summer in her hometown of Berkeley, California.

New college graduate Stevie, an African-American woman, takes a trip to San Francisco and decides to leave Chicago behind forever as she dives into the 70s scene of disco, women's liberation, sexual revolution, and love.

Having endured the vicious rumors spread by her professional-skateboarder ex-boyfriend, high school sophomore Kelsey Wilcox tries to salvage her reputation while attempting to earn a place on her high school newspaper.

Longtime band mates Archy and Nat preside over Brokeland Records, a used-record emporium, but trouble arises when a former NFL quarterback, one of the country's richest African Americans, decides to build his latest Dogpile megastore on nearby Telegraph Avenue which could spell doom for the little shop.

College student Ariel Silverman, is haunted by the disappearance of her best friend, Jeni, who vanished without a trace a few years before. She meets three mysterious, beautiful and seductive young people and through them Ariel unravels the mystery of her best friend's disappearance.

Having endured the vicious rumors spread by her professional-skateboarder ex-boyfriend, high school sophomore Kelsey Wilcox tries to salvage her reputation while attempting to earn a place on her high school newspaper.