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: April 6, 2010
The Berkeley Wire: 4.6.10
Panoramic Way group drops involvement in suit against Cal [Daily Cal]
Not everyone agrees with Berkeley’s five in Top 100 restaurants [David Bunnell]
GOP steps up attacks on UC Berkeley’s Goodwin Liu [CBS]
Walk the architectural walk: three April tours of our city [BAHA]
Photo: Bridge over frog pond at UC Botanical Gardens by Ereneta/Berkeleyside Flickr pool.
Youths driving at 100 mph right before crash
Richmond police said today that the two Berkeley teenagers who were killed in an automobile accident last week were driving at speeds of 100 miles per hour right before the crash.
Witnesses reported that the car “was driving erratically, weaving in and out of traffic,” said Richmond Police Sgt. Bisa French. The car got up to 100 miles a hour but had just come around a curve so it was probably going around 60 mph when the accident happened, she … Continue reading »
Tagged Kyle Strong, Prentice Gray
Out of the Blue: a cappella performance tonight
If you’re in the mood for some seriously impressive and uplifting entertainment tonight, head on over to Berkeley High School’s Little Theater to hear Out of the Blue, an a cappella group from Oxford University in the UK. (Watch them perform Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face” in the video above, to a highly appreciative crowd.)
The group is on a US tour. The performance starts at 7pm. Tickets on the door: $10.00 for adults and $5.00 for students.
New falafel place on Telegraph Avenue
Maoz Vegetarian has been open on Telegraph Avenue for 10 days, but already the reviews on Yelp are piling up.
“Holy crap this place is freaking good!”
“OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG, NOOO WAY,” said another reviewer. “They have these all over Europe and since I lived there for 5 months I have been dying for another one of these delicious falafels.”
“The falafel is awesome: fresh, flavorful and not greasy,” wrote another. “The salad bar is too, there was olives, … Continue reading »
Tagged Maoz Vegetarian, Telegraph Avenue
Over 100 protest-related suspensions at UC Berkeley?
About 200 students and supporters protested yesterday against the Code of Student Conduct, according to The Daily Californian:
While administrators describe the student code of conduct as an educational process, student critics lament that the code, unlike legal proceedings, allows what they said are vague charges, unfairly delayed hearings and evidence against them that they said does not sufficiently establish guilt.
Students involved with the Nov. 20 Wheeler Hall occupation, the protests during the Nov. … Continue reading »
To tweet or not to tweet, that is the question
Blogger extraordinaire Dave Winer does it many times a day and nearly 30,000 people follow his every word. Sustainable food guru Michael Pollan thought he was going to do it, but probably found he was too busy and has only graced us with his 140-character apercus 15 times since he launched himself into micro-blogging.
Few of Berkeley’s luminaries seem to have got the Twitter bug. A non-scientific survey reveals Winer (@davewiner*) way out in the lead … Continue reading »
Big Screen Berkeley: Blood and guts in The Warlords
If you enjoyed the balletic elegance of Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon or the epic scale and outrageous haute couture of Zhang Yimou’s Curse of the Golden Flower, you might still enjoy director Peter Chan’s The Warlords, a Chinese historical drama from 2007 only now receiving an American theatrical release (it opens at the Shattuck Cinemas this Friday, April 9).
However, as the title suggests, this is a much grimmer affair than the aforementioned films — so if you … Continue reading »
Tagged Andy Lau, Jet Li, Shattuck Cinemas, Takeshi Kaneshiro, The Warlords
