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 6, 2010
The Berkeley Wire: 8.6.10
Christina Romer leaving Obama administration to return to UC Berkeley [USA Today]
New book: 100 years at UC’s Department of Architecture [Architects’ Newspaper]
Manager of Black Oak Books talks about value of independence [WSJ]
Berkeley J-school film on Chauncey Bailey on PBS tonight [NBC]
Mandy Patinkin to star in Berkeley Reps’ Compulsion [Berkeley Rep]
Rabbi Michael Lerner honored for work promoting forgiveness [CC Times]
“Mommy” outing to Good Vibrations [SF Chronicle]
Photo: San Francisco bay in sepia by szymeks/Berkeleyside Flickr pool.
Grafitti tour of west Berkeley
Daniel Timothy Wood, who is in digital advertising, had a few moments Thursday between his lunch at Vik’s Chaat Corner on Fourth Street (which he says is the best Indian place on the planet) and an appointment with a client in San Jose.
So the Portland, Oregon resident and a few friends walked along the train tracks in West Berkeley to look at the graffiti painted on the backs of buildings. It’s a walk Wood has … Continue reading »
Tagged Daniel Timothy Wood, graffiti, tagging
Berkeley Bites: Paul Arenstam & Charlene Reis, Summer Kitchen & Bake Shop
Chef owners Paul Arenstam and Charlene Reis have a slow food sensibility in a take-out business better known for fast food. That’s because the culinary couple (partners in life too) come with stellar cooking credentials: She’s an-ex Chez Panisse pastry chef, he did stints at upscale L.A. joints before landing at San Francisco’s acclaimed Rubicon. A decade ago Arenstam opened his own restaurant, Belon, in the city.
But running a high-end brasserie in the Tenderloin proved untenable; when business faltered, … Continue reading »
Phish delights fans at the Greek Theater
More than 8,500 people streamed into the Greek Theater on Thursday for the first of Phish’s three concerts. When the shows were announced, tickets sold out in about five minutes. They originally cost $50 but are in such high demand now that some are selling on the secondary market for $750. It looks like it was quite a colorful show.
Photos by Wendy Rogell
Tagged Greek Theater, Phish
Police looking for missing woman
Berkeley police are asking for the public’s help in locating a developmentally disabled woman whose mother last saw her five years ago.
In June 2009, the mother of Heather Bloom called Berkeley police to ask for assistance in locating her daughter who had been living with her sister in Berkeley. The mother, who lives in New York, had last seen her daughter in 2005.
Police went to the place they thought Bloom was living but were not able to see … Continue reading »
