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 9, 2010
The Berkeley Wire: 2.09.10
Happy Birthday Mr Mayor [Daily Clog]
Cal’s most successful sport gets turfed out [Daily Cal]
Berkeley’s solar financing program adopted by San Francisco [NYT]
Elusive John Yoo class tracked down [Business Insider]
[Photo by Claudie C-G from Berkeleyside Flickr pool]
Natalie Coughlin at the Cheese Board
Natalie Coughlin is munching on a Cheese Board pizza. Or she was very recently. How do we know the 11-time Olympic medalist is partial to Berkeley’s favorite cooperative pizzeria? Twitter, of course.
Here’s what Coughlin had to say at 4.18pm today:
Rewarding myself w/ Cheeseboard pizza. It’s a Berkeley institution in the “gourmet ghetto.” Should check it out if you’re ever in the area!
You may also like to know that the 28-year old champion … Continue reading »
Tagged Natalie Coughlin
Prius sightings forecast to dip, if temporarily
When we bought our Prius two years ago from Toyota of Berkeley, our sales representative, George, was proud to report that the Berkeley dealership, on Shattuck Avenue, sold more Priuses than any other single dealership in the country.
While I haven’t been able to verify that claim — funnily enough the Toyota switchboard seems a little busy right now — I don’t doubt its veracity. If your kids are playing the “count the car models” game while … Continue reading »
Tagged Toyota of Berkeley
BHS suspends doped cookie student
Berkeley High parents received an email late last night that suggests that the school’s administration is putting its laissez-faire reputation behind it:
Recently two students walking across the BHS upper courtyard saw another student with a container of cookies and asked for one. After eating the cookie both students became ill enough to require medical attention. As a result of the medical visit it was determined that the cookie contained marijuana. The student who furnished the cookie to … Continue reading »
Tagged Berkeley High School
A possible future for Center Street
Following Berkeleyside’s coverage of the Streets and Open Space Improvement Plan yesterday, San Francisco Chronicle architecture critic John King hailed one potential element in today’s paper. He looks at the work that Walter Hood and his practice Hood Design have done on Center Street:
[Hood] treats the block as pedestrian terrain, the rigid 13-foot climb to the campus given a fluid topographical form. The pavement would be permeable to rainfall and part in two spots, an … Continue reading »
Tagged Walter Hood
New designs on Berkeley libraries
The Berkeley Public Library is redesigning three of its outposts — the South Branch library on Russell and MLK Way, the Claremont library on Benvenue at Ashby and the North Branch on The Alameda (above) — and is holding meetings where the public can see the designs the assigned architectural teams have come up with.
On Wednesday February 10 at 6:30 pm Field Paoli will present the latest design for South Branch, and Gould Evans/Baum Thornley will present … Continue reading »
Pourquoi Chez Panisse?
Today we discover, through a story in The Atlantic, why Alice Waters named her restaurant Chez Panisse.
We knew about the Marcel Pagnol connection (you only need to visit the restaurant’s website to be immersed in the mood of 1930s French film). Corby Kummer digs deeper and looks at the many associations the name Panisse has for Berkeley’s first lady of food.
Tagged Alice Waters, Chez Panisse
Recycling success leads to city budget woes
It seems I wasn’t the only one to reduce the size of my trash bin last year — both to save money and because with more efforts on the recycling front I really didn’t need a large landfill container any longer.
I upped the ante on composting, but the real difference was scooping up all plastic bags that pass through the household, even when you’re not using them to shop, and depositing them at the Claremont Safeway collection … Continue reading »
Tagged Berkeley recycling
Big Screen Berkeley: “Terribly Happy” is awfully good
There’s a new Danish film coming to town on Friday, and it’s the best film I’ve seen so far this year.
Terribly Happy tells the tale of Copenhagen copper Robert (Jakob Cedergren, looking a bit like a young Donald Sutherland), reassigned after a bitter divorce and a nervous breakdown to the remote Jutland town of Skarrild. Other than some shoplifting, the worst thing that happens in Skarrild is domestic abuse—specifically, the beating of willowy blonde Ingelise (Lene Maria Christensen) by … Continue reading »
Pot au chocolat: the Scharffen Berger decision
In a closed session meeting last night, the Berkeley City Council agreed to let a medical marijuana dispensary move into the old Scharffen Berger building on the corner of Heinz and 7th Street. A number of nearby organizations, including the Ecole Bilingue private school, supermarket Berkeley Bowl West and a local developer, had opposed the move.
The dispensary, the Berkeley Patients Group, will move from its existing site on San Pablo Avenue.
The Ecole Bilingue objected to the … Continue reading »
Tagged Berkeley Patients Group, Measure JJ
