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 8, 2010
The Berkeley Wire: 2.08.10
In case you missed LBL’s Science Cafe [Cocktail Party Physics]
Oaks Theater seeks new tenant [Daily Planet]
Visit Berkeley has a new website: bells and whistles [VisitBerkeley.com]
I’m not sure I want to know all this about Berkeley High [Facebook]
[Detail of the Granada Building by Szymek S from Berkeleyside Flickr pool]
Sungevity keeps a foothold in Berkeley
We reported last week that Berkeley-based solar power start-up Sungevity was moving to Oakland.
It turns out the truth isn’t quite as bleak as we thought. Sungevity is keeping its 6,000 sq. ft. offices on Bancroft Way, which will now become the base for any installations the company does in the East Bay. The new offices, in Oakland’s Jack London Square, will become the new company headquarters.
So chalk that down not as a total loss for Berkeley, … Continue reading »
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Wood Tavern set to expand
The immensely popular Wood Tavern restaurant (above) is planning to expand by scooping up the conveniently available next-door space recently vacated by Lulu Rae Confections.
SFoodie reports that Rich and Rebekah Wood, owners of the restaurant, which is located at 6317 College on the Oakland-Berkeley border, have applied for a permit to operate a spin-off eatery likely to focus on small plates, cheese and charcuterie platters.
Something tells us it will be packed from the moment … Continue reading »
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A green, pedestrian-friendly vision for Downtown
On Saturday Berkeley citizens were given a taste of how their fair city might become quite a bit fairer when the people behind the Streets and Open Space Improvement Plan (SOSIP) held an open house to present a number of possible scenarios to prettify the downtown area.
Not to be confused with the Downtown Area Plan Forum, SOSIP is focused on making neighborhoods more pedestrian and bike friendly, with well-maintained streets, wider sidewalks, calmer traffic and … Continue reading »
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Where in Berkeley?
Know where this is? Let us know in the comments.
(We were clearly too easy last time. Are we being too hard this time around?)
Photo by Lance Knobel
Berkeley Library Foundation honors local authors
Hundreds of people crowded into a gorgeously decorated Berkeley Main Library on Saturday night to toast local authors.
The honorees included Michael Chabon, Michael Lewis, Geoffrey Nunberg, Michelle Richmond, Alison Gopnik, Alan Black, Minal Hajratwala, Daniel Mason, Molly Katzen, Katie Hafner, Tamin Ansary, Andrew Beahrs, Sylvia Brownrigg, Ernest Callenbach, Novella Carpenter, Charlie Haas, and many more. Malcolm Margolin, the founder of Heyday Books, received the Fred and Pat Cody award for his outstanding contribution to the world of … Continue reading »
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