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: February 5, 2010
The Berkeley Wire: 2.05.10
Cardoons are underrated: Michael Bauer scoffs some at Gather [Chronicle]
Fears for funding of Berkeley Adult School under new budget [Planet]
Berkeley tenants protest loss of public housing [Housing Research]
The View from Berkeley: by artist Leslie Saeta [Painting is my Passion]
[Photo: Graffiti on Fourth Street by Тощин/Berkeleyside Flickr pool]
BHS science lab debate: What Shirley said
In the concluding moments of Wednesday night’s school board meeting, director Shirley Issel made a passionate statement urging an end to the divisive rhetoric used by some sides in the argument over equity grants and science labs at Berkeley High School.
Here’s some of what Issel said:
Many people in this community have stood up for science. Many board members have stood up for science. The science department has some responsibility here along with the administration of … Continue reading »
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Author festival tackles the knotty questions
If you are a book lover, writer or member of a book club — and chances are if you live in Berkeley you’re one of the three — you might want to clear your calendar for tomorrow and check out the 16th annual Festival of Women Authors that is taking place at H’s Lordships on the Berkeley Marina.
The four featured authors this year, all from the Bay Area, will be discussing what is it like to … Continue reading »
Bollywood Berkeley: Coming soon to a venue near you
If you’re in the mood for some Friday distraction (and who isn’t), watch this amusing set-up from a group of UC Berkeley students who are forming a Bollywood dance group called, perhaps, Zahanat. This is their teaser video in which they recruit their budding dancers.
I can’t wait to see the troupe in action.
Update: I don’t have to wait long to see Zahanat in action. Team member Vivek Maheshwari got in touch to say the all-male fusion dance team … Continue reading »
Cherry blossom season in Berkeley
One of the delights of living in the Bay Area comes in February, when plum and cherry trees start to bloom. While most of the rest of the country sits under a blanket of snow, those of us in northern California get a peek of spring.
Pick of the Berkeley open houses
It’s a variety pack trio this week — one high-end contemporary designer number, a 1970s custom home and a pretty, if diminutive, Craftsman near Gourmet Ghetto (pictured in listed order).
161 Avenida Drive: Price: $1,685,000. This one will appeal if you like full-on modern — and are comfortable with the idea of spending upwards of one and a half million. Designed by Paul Wang in 2003, this four-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom home in the north Berkeley hills is described … Continue reading »
