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 16, 2009
Berkeley cupcake suspension
Berkeley’s Cupkate’s Bakery — whose wares Berkeleyside has had the pleasure of sampling — has just reported on Twitter that it will not be serving any cakes tomorrow from its popular truck:
We will not be operating tomorrow according to our normal schedule. The city of Berkeley is trying to suspend our permit. We will be in meetings all day, and back to our office route Wednesday.
Tagged Cupkates
The Berkeley Wire: 11.16.09
Rewrite the California constitution before breakfast [California is Broken]
Baby’s body found in Berkeley Marina — feared linked to homicide [SF Chronicle]
Every shop tells a story: what ordinary storefronts tell us. [BAHA]
Berkeley researchers take the lead out of piezolelectrics [Science Centric]
Berkeley Potters’ Guild announces dates of annual holiday sale [Happenstand]
[Photo of wild turkeys in Berkeley: ereneta on Berkeleyside photo pool]
Tagged Berkeley news
They had sex in the shtetl?
Who said academia was boring? Whoever uttered that thought clearly was not invited to “Sex and the Shtetl,” a conference taking place this week at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.
Professors, graduate students and independent scholars are gathering to talk about marital infidelity, cross dressing, clandestine encounters, and sex out of wedlock in Jewish communities during the 19th century.
Do you find this notion hard to believe?
Well, take the case of Jacob Frank, an 18th century … Continue reading »
Does anyone remember this Berkeley native?
I wrote a story that ran in Sunday’s New York Times about Mark C. Anderson, 61, who grew up in Berkeley and Orinda and graduated from UC Berkeley. He studied history at the university and then attended San Francisco Law School.
Anderson is scheduled to go on trial Tuesday on charges of setting fire to a wine storage facility in Vallejo. The blaze destroyed $250 million in wine, including some wineries’ entire vintages and historical records.
I am wondering … Continue reading »
Tagged Mark Anderson, Vallejo arson fire, wine
