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 13, 2010
The Berkeley Wire: 8.13.10
Easier to have a pot collective than a vegetable one [NY Times]
UC Berkeley places second in world ranking [AFP]
“People want their almonds back” [AP]
Golden Bears manage down expectations [Sports Illustrated]
Seven Cal professors criticize Whitman economic plan [Daily Cal]
Berkeley Bites: Lucia Sayre, Physicians for Social Responsibility
In many ways Lucia Sayre is your typical Berkeley resident: She has a fondness for farmers’ markets, growing her own greens, and eating local foods.
As director of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility, a nonprofit group that promotes public health policies, she wants to do more than make a difference at her dinner table. Her mandate: To help local hospitals purchase, prepare, and serve food to patients and employees that is better … Continue reading »
Riding for a dream
25-year-old Thien “Lolly” Tran, an undocumented Vietnamese student who goes to community college in Santa Ana, isn’t a big biker. He doesn’t even own one.
But that won’t stop him from biking more than 500 miles from UC Berkeley to UCLA over the next nine days as part of a student demonstration for immigrant rights, called the “Tour de Dream.” He’s one of 26 students participating in the event, meant to raise awareness and support for the federal Dream Act, a contentious bill currently … Continue reading »
Tagged Berkeley cycling, Tour de Dream
