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: January 2010
Berkeley woman dies on Pacifica beach
Amy Kellen Nicholson, 37, died Saturday afternoon after being swept out to sea while walking on a beach in Pacifica, the Associated Press reported.
See the full story here.
Salmon shares or a crab co-op: Berkeley could totally do that
In this morning’s New York Times Magazine, the Food column describes the decline of fisheries off South Carolina, and the effort by one fisherman to create a commercial market for alternative, more sustainable fish species. The decline and subsequent fishing restrictions on popular species there sounds depressingly like the steady decline of the Pacific salmon fisheries here on the West Coast—and simply reflects the overfished state of the seas worldwide. It’s … Continue reading »
Tagged fisheries, locavore, sustainability
A L@te start to the weekend
If the aim of Berkeley Art Museum’s L@te Friday night events is to generate some buzz, the museum has succeeded. Last night’s event had the energy of a good cocktail party, which seemed to be picking up steam at 8:30. (I bet they had to shoo people out at the 9 p.m. closing — I can picture the event hosts yawning, collecting glasses, bringing out coats. …)
The crowd of 200 or so, including some … Continue reading »
Why the choppers?
What’s this about? My Twitter feed has filled in the last few minutes with news that two Cobra AH-1s (not as fully armed as above, I hope) just flew over North Berkeley.
I liked the comment from @woneal:
Two AH-1 Cobra gunships just flew over Berkeley. Shock and awe? Show of force? Us liberal complaining types may want to shut up for a while.
Any reports?
Public domain DoD photo by Staff Sgt Bob … Continue reading »
The Berkeley Wire: 1.29.10
Accha: Vik’s moves two blocks, grows 30 per cent [SFGate.com]
Wild Things: Dave Eggers speaks to Jon Carroll at the Rep [Park Day School]
Belly flop: Willard Pool faces closure [Daily Planet]
Pick of the Berkeley open houses
For those of us who enjoy snooping around — sorry visiting — open houses on Sundays, here’s my pick of three Berkeley homes (pictured in listed order) that have just come up for sale, and that may be worth adding to the list this weekend. (Click through to check with listing agents for confirmed times.)
661 Santa Rosa Avenue: Price: $949,000. If the Mediterranean style is your thing, this 3-bedroom, 1,733 sq ft home in the … Continue reading »
What’s the Berkeley Breakfast Club?
I was a guest this morning at the Berkeley Breakfast Club, a weekly gathering of 200 Berkeleyites.
The Breakfast Club was founded in 1936 “to foster, promote, exploit and publicize the educational, cultural, civic, commercial, industrial, recreational and residential assets of the city of Berkeley”. Membership is open to anyone who lives or works in Berkeley, and requires that an existing member act as sponsor.
The BBC has a weekly breakfast in the Berkeley City Club which, … Continue reading »
Scouting Berkeley: Kitchen on Fire
By Kim Weisberg:
I recently attended a cooking class at Kitchen on Fire (motto: “if these two clowns can cook, so can you”). Founded in 2005 by chefs Olivier Said MikeC (pictured), and located at the Epicurious Garden in Berkeley’s Gourmet Ghetto, Kitchen on Fire aims to demystify home cooking and entertaining using primarily local and organic ingredients.
My boyfriend and I had planned on rainy evening traffic and ended up arriving a half hour early, so we stepped downstairs to Mint Leaf, where we ordered drinks to take upstairs (the bartender was not fazed by our request, and simply told us to bring the glasses back after class).
Tagged Kitchen on Fire
Chief Meehan talks crime with District 1
On Wednesday night, while most Berkeley residents were probably watching the president’s State of the Union address, about 20 residents of Berkeley City Council District 1 attended a neighborhood meeting hosted Councilwoman Linda Maio.
The top item on the agenda was meeting new police chief Michael Meehan, who tried out many of the lines he apparently used at his swearing-in address today, including the one about the parking tickets he received his first day on the job.
Chief … Continue reading »
Tagged Berkeley crime, Berkeley news, Michael Meehan
The Berkeley Wire: 1.28.10
Later, man: City council to consider marijuana club at next meeting [Coco Times]
Music to bridge political and cultural divide [Berkeley.edu]
The flushometer burglar? [Daily Cal]
500 pages on Cal football and it gets five stars [Amazon.com]
[Photo: Scott Donahue sculpture on I-80 bridge by Тощин/Berkeleyside Flickr pool]
