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 29, 2010
The Berkeley Wire: 6.29.10
Berkeley PD is looking for a few good men and women [KCBS]
Fuel-efficient cookstoves for Ethiopia from Berkeley [LBL]
More Bain & Co at UC Berkeley [Daily Cal]
Titan Arum should be fully open tomorrow [UC Botanical Garden]
Trust your struggle by Keoki Seu/Berkeleyside Flickr pool
Last-gasp bid to save Willard Pool eyes city subsidies
An eleventh hour attempt to save Willard Pool, at least for the summer, has been hatched by the head of a Berkeley neighborhood association and will be presented at tonight’s City Council meeting by councilmember Gordon Wozniak who supports the idea.
The proposal, conceived by George Beier, the President of the Willard Neighborhood Association, would see money diverted from subsidies currently given to city employees for membership of the YMCA. The city provides $230,000 a year to subsidize … Continue reading »
West Berkeley Walgreens seeks beer/wine approval
A Berkeleyside reader writes in to spread the word about a meeting at the Shattuck Hotel tonight at 7pm between lawyers representing Walgreens and residents local to the Walgreens on San Pablo and Ashby Gilman, Telegraph and Adeline. Walgreens wants to sell beer and wine at the stores, and is required to notify residents living within 1,000 feet of their intentions.
The Berkeleysider who lives near the Adeline store notes:
I know there are many neighbors in … Continue reading »
Tagged Berkeley Bowl West, Walgreens
Berkeley’s Chinese for Christ Church is on the block
The Chinese for Christ Church at 2713-2715 Prince Street in the Elmwood district is up for sale, priced at $2,250,000.
The church, which is sited on a 20,000 square foot parcel and comprises two principal buildings, was originally built in the early 1920s for the Christian Science Church, according to listing agent Jon Vicars. A community center was added in 1941, as well as several other additions, and the Chinese Church for Christ bought the property in 1974.
PG&E cuts more than tree branches — UPDATED
Some of Berkeleyside took a quick vacation over the weekend. We returned home late Sunday night, but when I eagerly went downstairs to check the latest in yesterday’s Netherlands vs Slovakia World Cup match, I found a blank TV. No signal. We also had no phone and no Internet. “Damn that Comcast,” I thought.
A call to Comcast revealed that they couldn’t see any signal going to our house. So they dispatched an engineer. When Corey Johnson showed … Continue reading »
Tagged Comcast, Davey Tree Expert Company, PG&E
Berkeley police shoot and kill man
Berkeley police shot and killed a man late Monday night after he pulled a gun on them, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
The man, whose identity has not been released, had been chased into Berkeley by the Albany police. He got out from his car on San Pablo near Jones and ran a few blocks to 8th and Camelia. After he pulled a weapon, a sergeant and veteran officer from the Berkeley Police Department opened fire. The shooting … Continue reading »
Tagged Berkeley police, shooting
Big Screen Berkeley: The Killer Inside Me
The knives are out for Michael Winterbottom’s latest film, The Killer Inside Me, which opens this coming Friday July 2 at the Shattuck Cinemas. An adaptation of hardboiled novelist Jim Thompson’s most famous work, Winterbottom’s film stands accused of looking kindly upon violence against women, and (worst of all) suggesting victims may be complicit in the crimes committed against them. If there’s blame to be apportioned, however, assign it to the source material– The Killer Inside Me is extremely faithful … Continue reading »
