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: August 3, 2010
The Berkeley Wire: 8.3.10
Mayor Tom Bates makes a pitch for Downtown Plan [Daily Californian]
Memorial service planned for UC student killed in plane crash [UC Berkeley News]
Did casual drug use contribute to death of UC student? [San Francisco Chronicle]
Credit card thief nabbed in North Berkeley [East Bay Express]
Only a few Berkeley places make list of Alice Waters’ favorites [Bay Area Bites]
Coach Tedford pledges to have more fun this season [SFGate]
Berkeley’s Teance hopes to set the standard for fine tea [Around Dublin]
Photo: Colored glass windows and parking meter by bobcrazybear/Berkeleyside Flickr pool.
Yarn bombers decorate Elmwood district
The yarn bombers descended into the Elmwood district on Monday and left behind some colorful decorations. They also put yarn wraps around the Rose Garden last week. For more photos, look here.
The artist who calls herself Streetcolor said these yarn sculptures were inspired by the work of a glass artist named Klaus Moje. “I pick out a piece of an artist I like and duplicate their colors exactly,” … Continue reading »
8 down, eight letters
As much as Berkeleyside tries to get away on vacation, sometimes there’s no escaping.
I sat down this morning to do the crossword in The Guardian during our stay in London. I struggled for a while with 8 down: Wally meets sweetheart beside a line in California (8). I had the first and third letter, but I couldn’t figure out what it could be. When insight came, I felt abashed that it had taken so long. If Berkeleyside readers want to know the answer, I’ve put it below the fold. … Continue reading »
Message to renters and landlords: you have rights
Berkeleyside contributing writer Kim Weisberg has been chronicling her search for a new home on Berkeleyside, reporting on lessons learned and listing scams, among other things. Recently she found a condo she and her partner loved in the Adam’s Point neighborhood of Lake Merritt and signed a rental agreement. Before they moved in, however, there was the little matter of settling a dispute with their Berkeley landlord.
Berkeley (like many university-oriented cities) has a reputation … Continue reading »
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Big Screen Berkeley: High and Low
March 23rd marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, who died in 1998 at the age of 88. The birthday celebrations have been suitably impressive: almost every feature film he ever made screened on Turner Classic Movies in March, and Pacific Film Archive has matched TCM’s fervor with an Akira Kurosawa Centennial celebration that began in June and runs through the end of August.
Amongst the hitherto obscure delights I’ve discovered in the course of … Continue reading »
