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
Monthly Archives: July 2010
The Berkeley Wire: 7.30.10
UC graduates mark one year in Iranian jail [Oakland Tribune]
Ronald Harold Stevenson III, longtime activist, dies suddenly [Oakland Tribune]
Downtown Berkeley Bart plaza will be remodeled with $1.8 million grant [Daily Planet]
Berkeley Iceland eligible for listing on National Register of Historic Places [Save Berkeley Iceland]
Berkeley Kite Festival at the Marina this weekend [Highline Kites]
Jewish Film Festival movies at Berkeley Rep [SFJFF]
Photo of 2009 Kite Festival by Tracey Taylor
Berkeleyan wins New Yorker cartoon caption contest
“Throw us a doughnut!”
That was William Rodarmor’s winning entry in the New Yorker’s June 28th cartoon caption contest.
Rodarmor, a Berkeley resident, is an award-winning French literary translator and a former editor at PC World magazine.
The other contenders for the caption were:
“Abandon cup!”
“We’ll never get to sleep tonight.”
Hat tip to Nancy Friedman
Dog festival to raise funds for burned animal shelter
Every year, the Berkeley-East Bay Humane Society (BEBHS) holds a fundraising event for dogs and people called Bay to Barkers. This year is the 13th year of the Bay to Barkers tradition, and may also be the most important for the BEBHS.
On May 20, there was a devastating fire at the BEBHS which burned down a majority of the building, killed twelve cats, and left many animals homeless. With their goal of raising $25,000, BEBHS hopes … Continue reading »
Berkeley Bites: Daniel Miller, Spiral Gardens
Just around the corner and down the street from where I live on a stretch of Sacramento Street that includes liquor stores and the dodgy characters who frequent such places, you’ll find Spiral Gardens, a slightly disheveled verdant oasis on a fenced in corner of a formerly empty city lot.
It’s a welcome addition to the neighborhood. For the past six years in this location, the community food security project has developed a four-pronged approach to reaching … Continue reading »
Cal athletes work out in temporary tent
The new athletic complex isn’t finished, Memorial Stadium is behind steel trusses as part of a multi-year retrofit project, and other things are out of whack at UC Berkeley’s sports program.
But Cal athletes are making do by training at a new 14,000 square foot rectangular tent set up along Centennial Drive, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
Athletes from 11 sports –including the lucrative men’s football and basketball teams, (football averaged a $6.85 million profit each of … Continue reading »
The Berkeley Wire: 7.29.10
Three UCB students awarded environmental scholarships [UC Berkeley]
New plan to revitalize lower Sproul Plaza [Daily Californian]
Berkeley Art Museum shows haunting pictures [SF Chronicle]
Richard Paul Fink to debut as Wotan in Berkeley opera [SF Chronicle]
Looking beyond the car battery to the electric grid [Article Ant]
Photo: San Francisco Bay by Dougsmi/Berkeleyside Flickr pool.
Why isn’t more of NBC’s Parenthood filmed in Berkeley?
Every since NBC debuted its hour-long drama, Parenthood, people in Berkeley have pointed out all the ways it’s not, well, Berkeley.
Complaints are many. There are too many white characters, and not enough people of color. No one is gay. There are too few Priuses in the show, and not nearly enough Peet’s Coffees. That high school in the series looks nothing like Berkeley High. And how in the world can the parents afford that sprawling Craftsman-style house that … Continue reading »
Another corpse flower is blooming
Who knew watching flowers unfurl was so much fun?
UC Botanical Gardens has sent out word that another titan arum plant is blooming. Officials found a new bud on the plant affectionately called The Little Stinker on July 16. Last night, the bud started to open and it should be fully open today, July 29.
The Botantical Garden will stay open until 7 pm to accommodate extra viewing.
The plant, officially known as the Amorphophallus titanum or titan arum, … Continue reading »
Basque president visits Cal, and other celebrities
The president of the Basque region of Spain came to UC Berkeley on Tuesday to preside over two formal agreements between the university and the region, take some photos, and browse through the diary kept by Juan Batista De Anza, a Basque descendant, who led an overland trip from Mexico to San Francisco in 1776.
Patxi Lopez, 50, his wife, and a delegation of 34 Basque officials and journalists, only spent three hours on campus, but got a … Continue reading »
The Berkeley Wire: 7.28.10
Alta Bates to teach how to make healthy breakfast choices [Bauman College]
How UC Berkeley might make fuel from the sun [Technology Review]
Open Science movement holds conference in Berkeley [Open Science]
Get a heads up on UC’s schedule [Daily Planet]
Philanthropist establishes his 24th scholarship at UC Berkeley [UCB News]
Photo: Garden at Walnut and Virginia by Syzmk S./Berkeleyside Flickr pool.
