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: June 1, 2010
The Berkeley Wire: 6.01.10
Berkeley police help pull woman out from under BART train at Rockridge [SFGate]
Meet the last generation of typewriter repairmen [Wired]
Pisano to lead cost-cutting Operation Excellence at UC Berkeley [Daily Cal]
California Watch hires Pulitzer Prize winner and two others [Poynter Online]
Three new gecko species found by Berkeley researchers [KGO]
Photo of Smokehouse by Alex Rez from Berkeleyside Flickr pool
Michael Lewis is Washington’s new darling
Well, savvy Berkeleyside readers already know that Michael Lewis’ new book, The Big Short, sold 162,000 copies in its first month.
But now there’s news that the book has captured the attention of our country’s lawmakers. According to a story on the website Politico, The Big Short has been mentioned at least 15 times in the hallowed halls of Congress — on the Senate floor, in committee meetings and in press conferences.
Dick Durbin, the … Continue reading »
Tagged Michael Lewis, The Big Short
New “hipster” green market to open in Berkeley
A new green market will open on June 12 in the parking lot at the Berkeley Adult School on San Pablo and Virginia. The founders of Beehive Market describe it as a “hipster green lifestyle market… celebrating all things cool about being a green localist”.
Isaac Cronin, who founded Beehive with Julia Fry, says the goal is to be a regional, destination market, providing all sorts of locally sourced and made products, in addition to some more typical farmers’ … Continue reading »
Tagged Beehive Market, Berkeley Adult School
BP oil spill from Berkeley
If you need to bring home the scale of the BP oil spill, have a look at Andy Lintner’s In Perspective. He updates the map with the latest data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and uses Google Maps to let visitors center the map wherever they want. Needless to say, we wondered what it looked like centered on Berkeley (above).
Tagged BP oil spill, NOAA
Big Screen Berkeley: Best Worst Movie
If you thought the subject of last week’s column — 1953’s Invaders from Mars — was a little on the lowbrow side, wait ’till you get a load of Best Worst Movie, a new documentary opening Friday June 4 at the Shattuck Cinemas. It’s the fascinating, hilarious and occasionally bittersweet tale of the production, release, and ancillary afterlife of what’s widely considered to be one of the worst cinema atrocities of all time, Troll 2.
A horror-fantasy film shot … Continue reading »
UC Berkeley Chancellor declares it a “difficult year”
UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau is telling his staff that this has been ‘the single most difficult year I personally have experienced.”
Birgeneau, who has served as chancellor since 2004, had to deal with severe fiscal constraints, staff furloughs, large-scale protests, vandalism and violence on and near the campus, hunger strikes, and lots of criticism.
The most difficult time may have been in December, when a group of students and local residents carrying torches stormed his house while … Continue reading »
