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: July 8, 2010
The Berkeley Wire: 07.08.10
Berkeley student on list of teenagers making the food revolution [Lettuce Eat Kale]
Bar Bites: Organic cocktails at Gather, an inviting place to hang out [SF Chronicle]
Berkeley law dean: let states borrow from federal government [New York Times]
Berkeley resident, music promoter, admits defrauding investor [SF Chronicle]
From museum to home: the Magnes makes its move [New York Times]
Berkeley-based Dynavax begins trials of universal flu vaccine [VND]
Donations being sought to save a piece of Berkeley’s punk rock history [NBC]
Photo by barnali/Berkeleyside Flickr pool.
More adventures in knitting: yarn bombing Berkeley
Yarn bombing, graffiti knitting, yarn storming — call it what you will, it seems to be all the rage in Berkeley right now.
Yesterday we reported on the addition of a tailor-made knitted cover to part of one of the sculptures located on the I-80 pedestrian overpass. This came on the heels of a stealth knitting operation on a public work of art on the Berkeley Oakland border in May.
Berkeleysiders then wrote in to share news … Continue reading »
Music amid the redwoods at UC’s Botanical Garden
If listening to folk music in a beautiful natural setting sounds like you’re kind of thing, you might want to check out UC Botanical Garden‘s summer music series which runs every Thursday evening until July 29 in the garden’s Redwood Grove Ampitheater.
Tonight’s Garden Grooves event is a singer/songwriter night featuring Ed Masuga, That Blasted Hound and Chloe Roth (pictured above, left to right). Ed Masuga is described as “a finger-picking maniac … Continue reading »
Eagerly awaiting the Mark Twain tell-all
The entire world, it seems, is waiting for the unveiling of Mark Twain’s autobiography, which the Bancroft Library and UC Press will publish in November, 100 years after Twain’s death. Here PBS’s Spencer Michaels takes a tour of the vault holding the Twain papers.
Tagged Mark Twain, Robert Hirst, The Bancroft Library, UC Press
Dwight office building now a credit to the ‘hood
Why this picture of a plain office building on Dwight Way, you may ask?
Well it’s precisely because the building is looking so unblemished that it warrants attention.
In January we reported on the copious amounts of graffiti that had turned this corner building on Dwight and Fulton into an eyesore and a blight on the landscape (see photo below). By April there had been a significant improvement with a major clean-up operation having removed the majority of the scrawls.
What would you ask the mayor of Berkeley?
Next week, Berkeleyside is interviewing Mayor Tom Bates. There is no shortage of hot-button issues in the city — from the development of West Berkeley and the plans for Downtown, to the strains on the city budget, the closure of Willard Pool, and the climate for business in the city.
We’re curious what Berkeleyside’s readers are interested in. If you were sitting down with Mayor Bates, what would you ask him?
Let us know through the comments and … Continue reading »
Tagged Mayor Tom Bates
