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- 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 29, 2009
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 »
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