Featured events- 06/02/2012 - 9th Annual Berkeley World Music Festival, Sat, June 2
- 06/02/2012 - EAST BAY OPEN STUDIOS 2012 // JUNE 2-3, JUNE 9-10
- 06/02/2012 - Chocolate & Chalk Art Festival, Saturday, June 2, 2012 (Rain Date June 9) 10AM-5PM
- 06/01/2012 - Hillside Club Concert - Beth Custer Ensemble - 'My Grandmother'
- 05/31/2012 - One Man, Two Guvnors from National Theatre, London
Daily Archives: November 9, 2009
The Berkeley Wire: 11.9.09
America’s Most Wanted on Berkeley streets. I know they catch fugitives, but the voyeurism gives me the creeps [SFGate.com]
Just in time for the holidays there’s the Cal Bears Online Auction. Not clear whether the football team can buy a defense [Cal Rec Sports]
Like documentaries on modernist architecture? Rush out to Visual Acoustics, on for only a couple of more nights at the Shattuck Theater [Julius Shulman Film]
No school on Wednesday thanks to Veteran’s Day. Any Berkeley events to mark the day? I couldn’t find any.
Fat Pig: does size matter?
“Fat Pig”, Neil LaBute’s play which has just opened at the Aurora in Berkeley, will undoubtedly have you laughing and squirming with discomfort in equal measure.
At issue is society’s attitude to plus-size women and LaBute, predictably, pulls no punches in the script which has a young man struggling to handle his own feelings and those of his office co-workers once they discover he is dating a larger woman.
The acting from the young cast is uniformly superb and … Continue reading »
Tagged Aurora Theatre, Fat Pig, Neil LaBute
Berkeley hikers accused of spying in Iran
Three graduates of UC Berkeley, Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal, were accused today of espionage by Tehran’s chief prosecutor. The three were arrested on July 31 on the Iran-Iraq border and have been held since without charge. The accusation by chief prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi is being reported as a likely prelude to the three being brought to trial in Tehran.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters today, “We believe strongly that there is no evidence … Continue reading »
Tagged Free the Hikers, Josh Fattal, Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer
330 feet long! California gains sushi roll record
Students, cooks, and food fans created the world’s longest sushi roll Sunday at a marathon sushi-rolling session at UC Berkeley.
The amateur chefs created a 330-foot long sushi roll — 30 feet longer than the world record set in Hawaii in 2001.
It took 200 pounds of rice, 80 pounds each of avocado and cucumber and 180 pounds of fish. Some parts of the roll were stuffed with tofu for those who don’t eat fish.
Tagged World's longest sushi roll
Mystery Writing Conference at Claremont Hotel
When Berkeley resident Cornelia Read was struggling to finish her first mystery, she showed the first 20 pages to bestselling-author Lee Child at the annual Book Passage Mystery Conference. Child liked the pages so much, he offered to write a blurb for Read.
Read encountered Child the next year at another Book Passage conference. She was able to report she had found a publisher for her manuscript. To Read’s amazement, Child suggested that they go on … Continue reading »
Tagged Cornelia Read, mystery writing, Peter Riegert
