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
Monthly Archives: December 2009
New year’s resolutions for Berkeley
New Year’s Eve seemed the right time to lay down some markers for 2010 for our city. It’s a personal list — please add your own thoughts in the comments.
Real progress will be made in making Downtown a more vibrant, welcoming district. John Caner will get off to a positive start at the Downtown Business Association. Berkeley High School will see that science labs are vital for all of its students. The nostalgia (or political correctness) that keeps People’s … Continue reading »
C’est si bon at La Bedaine
La Bedaine is a new arrival on Solano Avenue and we are hearing very good things (hat-tip: Sylvia Paull whose nose is always to the ground in Berkeley and beyond).
We can vouch for the store’s tarte tatin, which we have tasted and is absolutely scrumptious — but we have yet to visit the actual shop which is like a traditional French traiteur and serves all sorts of treats, both sweet and savory.
Reports from readers would be … Continue reading »
The BHS science flap — the ripples are spreading
When I first wrote about principal Jim Slemp’s proposal to eliminate 0 and 7th period science labs at Berkeley High, not many people seemed to notice. We’ve tried on Berkeleyside to keep up with events on what is a key issue for BHS and Berkeley more broadly. We’re particularly grateful for the many thoughtful comments that have flowed in to our main post on the subject.
It’s good to report that many more people now have picked up … Continue reading »
Tagged BHS science labs
New Berkeley street art, new questions
In October, Berkeleyside revealed the identity of the artist behind a buffalo-airplane image which adorns the side of the abandoned photo processing booth on the corner of Ashby and Telegraph.
The street art is the work of Jesse Hazelip, and his buffalo has now been joined by a new piece of art (pictured above). This time the black-and-white image shows a wide-eyed man pulling up his T-shirt on which is printed the word SATE (we think).
So readers: … Continue reading »
Tagged Berkeley street art, Jesse Hazelip
Ex-Berkeley police chief to caretake BART force
The former Berkeley police chief Daschel Butler will temporarily take over as the head of the Bay Area Rapid Transit police force, reports the Associated Press.
Current chief Gary Gee announced his retirement earlier this year after a report criticized how BART handled last New Year’s Day fatal shooting of Oscar Grant by then-BART police officer Johannes Mehserle.
BART is conducting a nationwide search for a permanent chief.
Tagged Berkeley police, Daschel Butler, Oscar Grant
John Yoo isn’t too concerned with Berkeley’s radicals
John Yoo, the controversial Berkeley law school professor who wrote the infamous torture memos for President George W. Bush, is coming out with a book on January 5. The impending publication of Crisis and Command: A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George W. Bush prompted the normally reclusive Yoo to talk to the New York Times.
And he had a number of surprising things to say about Berkeley and his time in the Bush administration:
The Berkeley Wire: 12.29.09
Mina Bissell and her work on cancer at LBL lauded now, but once derided [NYT]
Governor tells DA to pull out the stops to prosecute chancellor’s house protestors [San Diego Union-Tribune]
Go Jackets! BHS boys’ soccer team is pretty good [Contra Costa Times]
[Photo of Lower Sproul Plaza by Ereneta from the Berkeleyside Flickr pool]
Adventure Playground facing budget constraints
Berkeley’s Adventure Playground, down at the Marina, is one of the city’s gems. If you have kids and don’t know about it, you must rectify that experience gap as soon as possible.
Not quite immediately though, for the playground has been closed between December 21 and January 1 for budgetary reasons.
Should this temporary closure be a sign that the playground is in any way under threat, this is serious news and Berkeley citizens should take action … Continue reading »
Lulu Rae to close
Lulu Rae, the confection and chocolate shop with the best rose-flavored gelato in town, is to close at the end of the month. (Hat-tip: reader Jean Chu.)
The store, which is just over the Berkeley border at 6311 College Avenue in Oakland, was founded by Piedmont resident Shelley Grubb and is named after her two daughters.
The store is currently holding a 30% off closing out sale. Its last day of business is December 31.
[Photo: Lulu … Continue reading »
Tagged Lulu Ray
