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 28, 2010
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.
South branch library demolition opposed
The Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association is opposing the city’s plan to tear down and rebuild the South Berkeley Branch and Tool Lending Library.
BAHA sent a letter to the planning department on July 16 protesting the proposed demolition because the existing building on Russell Street, designed by architect John Hans Ostwald in 1961, is an “architecturally significant building and a very fine example of Mid-Century Modern architecture.”
BAHA would like the city to either adapt the new design … Continue reading »
Where in Berkeley?
Know where this is? Take a guess and let us know in the comments.
Update 11:49 am: It’s he ceiling of Tolman Hall on campus.
Photo: Keoki Seu.
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New spate of arson fires in Berkeley
A week after Berkeley police arrested a man in connection with setting an arson fire on Telegraph, someone else has set two other small trash can fires, according to Berkeley police.
Police responded to a debris fire at 2915 Telegraph Avenue near Russell Street, at about 11:07 p.m. Monday, according to Sgt. Mary Kusmiss, spokeswoman for the Berkeley police department. Flames were coming out of a blue recycling bin that had been stuffed with newspapers, she said.
A few hours … Continue reading »
