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: January 19, 2010
The Berkeley Wire: 1.19.10
Retro-fitting: falling behind on soft story list [East Bay Express]
You’re in time to tune in to UC Berkeley’s spring course webcasts [Berkeley.edu]
Get ready for the open newsroom on Thursday [Editors Weblog]
More stimulus, please. LBL pulls in $12.8 m for health research [LBL]
[Photo on the Berkeley waterfront by Epanastasi from Berkeleyside Flickr pool]
On the agenda for tonight’s city council meeting
After a long holiday break, the Berkeley City Council will meet again tonight at 7 p.m. in the council chambers on Martin Luther King, Jr. Way. Interesting issues on the agenda include:
A directive to seek safety improvements at number of Bicycle Boulevard crossings. There is some funding available for the work through Caltrans’ settlement with the Fourth Bore Coalition. I can vouch that the Russell crossings of Shattuck, Sacramento and San Pablo need attention. On the bicycle front, … Continue reading »
“Flanagan made me choke on my chard”
Berkeley freelance writer Sarah Henry, who muses about food and family matters on her blog, Lettuce Eat Kale, was so hot under the collar after reading Caitlin Flanagan’s “Cultivating Failure” article in The Atlantic, she had to wait a week to cool off before responding. Henry volunteers at King Middle School’s Edible Schoolyard. Here’s her view, first published on Lettuce Eat Kale:
I was so royally peeved by Caitlin Flanagan’s hatchet job on Alice Waters and the Continue reading »
Dwight and Fulton: A veritable graffiti fest
Someone has really gone to town plastering the corner building at Dwight and Fulton with graffiti (above). No part of the exterior has been spared: windows, walls, even the real-estate broker’s sign advertising the fact that the offices are up for lease or sale has been “tagged”.
The 20,500 sq ft building comprises 25 private offices and has been available — for $1.50/sq ft per month — since at least December 2007 by the look of the broker’s … Continue reading »
Saving Berkeley High’s Old Gymnasium: A proposal
Berkeleyside exclusive: The Old Gymnasium on the Berkeley High School campus, a landmarked building originally designed by William Hays, has fallen into disrepair — see slideshow above — and the School District is suggesting it be demolished. Noted Berkeley architect Henrik Bull has a different suggestion:
It is easy to understand why the School Board of the Berkeley Unified School District has decided it wants to demolish the Old Gymnasium at Berkeley High School. Walking through the … Continue reading »
