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: December 8, 2009
The Berkeley Wire: 12.8.09
Put the logs down. Tomorrow, Wednesday 9, declared a Spare the Air Day [BAAQMD]
Berkeley candy store Alegio opens up in San Francisco [SFoodie]
Maybe not so much a Maybeck: status of Berkeley building reconsidered [SF Chronicle]
Judge orders Oregon Street drug-bust home to be boarded up [Daily Planet]
Man shot in arm in South Berkeley car park, Sunday [Daily Cal]
[Photo of UC campus, 1968 by Nick DeWolf Photo Archive from Berkeleyside Flickr pool]
Tagged Alegio, Berkeley news, Berkeley news, Bernard Maybeck, Spare the Air
Ouch! Students get H1N1 vaccine
Public health officials started inoculating students at Berkeley High School on Tuesday against the swine flu.
Tagged H1N1 vaccine
BHS schedule shift rumbles on
If you’re keeping up with the running debate about changing the schedule at Berkeley High School, you’ll want to read all 11 pages of the latest action plan, submitted by teacher team leaders and principal Jim Slemp.
The action plan allows each of the small schools and programs to determine their own schedules to some extent. It still, however, eliminates 0 and 7th periods for science labs. According to some BHS science teachers, the reduction in time for science … Continue reading »
Tagged BHS science labs
Baby, it’s cold outside: Share some warmth
Right now, when we’re having the lowest temperatures of the year and wet weather to boot, the clients of the Women’s Daytime Drop-in Center could really use your help. The Drop-in Center needs warm clothes for women and kids, including rain ponchos and coats, umbrellas, socks, hats, and gloves.
The center, which has served Berkeley’s homeless and low-income women and children for over 20 years, provides breakfast and lunch on weekdays, along with support groups, referrals … Continue reading »
Live longer in Berkeley 94708
Quick, let’s all move to Walnut Creek 94597. For there, the average life expectancy is 87.4. In Berkeley the average for the city as a whole is 81.6 — and breaking it down by zips you’re “best off” in Berkeley/Kensington 94708 where it’s 85.54 and “worst off” in north-west Berkeley 94710 where it’s 76.45.
All these figures come courtesy of the Contra Costa Times which calculated life expectancy and health issues based on people’s zip codes … Continue reading »
Tagged Berkeley life expectancy
Ten years later: How two Berkeley High reporters broke sex-ring scandal
Ten years ago, two young Berkeley High School reporters started to investigate the death of a young Indian immigrant woman. Carbon monoxide had killed Seetha Vemireddy while she slept in her Berkeley apartment, and her sister had been seriously sickened.
The original incident received some cursory notice in the local press. But the two young reporters, Megan Greenwall Greenwell and Iliana Montauk, were curious: why wasn’t the 17-year old girl enrolled in school? It was a question that … Continue reading »
Big Screen Berkeley: prickly Preminger’s in town
Pacific Film Archive’s ongoing salute to Otto Preminger continues this week with a selection of the director’s best features from the 1950s and 1960s. On Friday December 11, at 8:20pm, the Archive offers a screening of Otto’s taboo-breaking 1953 comedy-drama The Moon is Blue, long infamous for being the first Hollywood film in which the word ‘virgin’ is uttered.
The prickly Preminger managed to get the film released without the Production Code’s Seal of Approval, thus assuring that his … Continue reading »
