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 11, 2009
The Berkeley Wire: 12.11.09
Check that receipt: Office Depot overcharges Berkeley $289,000 [Berkeley Voice]
Cal students might not need that many trips to Office Depot — dissertations go paperless [UCB Newscenter]
BAM isn’t the only institution altering its building plans [NYT]
No good weather ahead [Wunderground]
[Photo by justonlysteve from Berkeleyside Flickr pool]
All-organic restaurant comes to Berkeley’s downtown
Berkeley’s newest all-organic restaurant, Gather, is scheduled to open for dinner on December 15. Located on ground floor of the David Brower building on Oxford Street, Gather is co-owned by Eric Fenster and Ari Derfel, of Back To Earth, an organic catering-outdoor adventure company.
Since 2001, Back to Earth has led yoga backpacking retreats, photography and watercolor classes, and other outings to places like Yosemite, Death Valley and Joshua Tree. Gather is their latest adventure.
Derfel also gained … Continue reading »
Tagged Gather Restaurant
More campus arrests
The four-day, relatively quiet student occupation of Wheeler Hall ended early this morning when police arrested 65 protesters.
University spokesman Dan Mogulof said the arrests were triggered when the occupiers announced plans to hold an all-night concert tonight. “Once the group refused to reconsider plans to hold an unauthorized all-night concert in an academic building, we had to take steps to ensure that finals could go forward. Our primary responsibility is to the campus’s core academic mission … Continue reading »
Evening of bellydance benefiting a good cause
Want to find out what the bellydance craze is all about, and support a local charity at the same time? Continue reading »
Tagged Ashkenaz, bellydance, benefit, performance
Endangered science at BHS
Berkeley High’s School Governance Council voted this week to approve principal Jim Slemp’s latest proposal for a new schedule at BHS. It now goes to the Berkeley Unified School District (although Slemp claims that the proposal doesn’t need BUSD approval).
The most contentious aspect of the new schedule is the elimination of before- and after-school time for science labs. The extra funding that goes to science will be used instead for unspecified “equity grants”, aimed at … Continue reading »
Nick DeWolf photo essay: UC Berkeley campus, 1968
The Berkeleyside Flickr pool is attracting many talented photographers. These four images of the UC Berkeley campus in 1968 are part of an archival series of photographs by Nick DeWolf, and were posted there by his son-in-law Steve Lundeen.
Nick De Wolf was co-founder of Teradyne Corporation and he is credited with designing more than 300 semi-conductor and other test systems, including the world’s first computer-operated integrated circuit tester. DeWolf, who died in 2006, … Continue reading »
Tagged Berkeley photographs, Nick DeWolf, UC Berkeley
