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- 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 18, 2010
The Berkeley Wire: 8.18.10
“Trash-talking” emails at center of UCB ethics debate [Nature]
Berkeley given award for green planning [City of Berkeley]
Michael Pollan and Michael Lewis to do benefit for J-School [UC Berkeley]
Oddballs, furlough days, and strong academics at Cal [US News]
Beehive Market is buzzing [East Bay Express]
Paisan on San Pablo is latest gourmet pizza place [SFGate]
Photo: Dome and yoke inside LBL by parksdhs/Berkeleyside Flicker pool
Arnieville protesters arrested in Sacramento
Details are sketchy, but police in Sacramento have started to arrest members of Arnieville, the group of disabled activists who set up a camp on a median along Adeline Street this summer.
The group went up to the Capitol today to protest against proposed budget cuts to programs that send assistants into the homes of the disabled. Without the assistance, disabled people will no longer be able to live independently and will have to go into nursing homes at … Continue reading »
Tagged Arnieville, CUIDO, Disablility rights, Olmstead Act
Will poetry be the key to voters’ hearts?
For his fifth bid for a seat on the Berkeley City Council, Kriss Worthington decided to try something unusual: communicate his message with a poem.
Instead of submitting prose for his candidate’s ballot statement, Worthington turned in a poem. “I only have 200 words. What can you really say with 200 words? I said, ‘let me try and be creative.’”
Worthington got the idea to write a poem after he attended a July 25 birthday party for Avotcja, an … Continue reading »
Berkeley team ascend America’s Got Talent ranks
A Berkeley team of climber-dancers has made it to the Top 48 of the current season of America’s Got Talent. As can be seen on the video above, AscenDance Project, which was founded by Isabel Von Rittberg while she was living in her van in Berkeley, blends graceful dance movement with eye-poppingly difficult rock climbing techniques.
German-born Von Rittberg built her first climbing wall designed for dancing in 2005 which was also when she met Ryan Gaunt … Continue reading »
Director of Bancroft Library to retire
Charles Faulhaber, who recently oversaw the $64 million renovation of the Bancroft Library, announced this week that he will retire from his post in June 2011.
Faulhaber, 68, will have spent 42 years on the UC Berkeley campus by that time – the last 16 as director of the Bancroft. It’s time to move on, he said.
“I’ve got the best job on the Berkeley campus,” said Faulhaber, who is also a professor of medieval Spanish literature. “It’s pure joy.”
Faulhaber was appointed the James D. Hart Director of the Bancroft Library in 1995 and not only oversaw – and raised money for – the library’s renovation, but helped usher in a new digital era for the Bancroft.
Browsers on the library’s website can find lectures on California history, see an online exhibit of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, find out about diverse California cultures, learn about the history of the disability rights movement, as well as other social movements.
They can scan manuscripts in the Digital Scriptorium, which features illuminated manuscripts from the 8th to 15th centuries. They can buy reproductions of some of the library’s prized posters and photographs. There is even a Bancroft Facebook page which presents a “digital object of the day.”
Faulhaber also raised funds for three of the library’s most visible collections: The Mark Twain Papers, The Center for Tebtunis Papyri, and the Regional Oral History Project.
The Bancroft and UC Press will publish Twain’s autobiography in November, and its release has attracted national attention. The book was the subject of a Newsweek cover story last week and was featured on “60 Minutes.”
The Mark Twain Project’s acquisition of a an original Twain manuscript at auction in July drew much less notice, but is an illustration of how important fundraising – one of Faulhaber’s main responsibilities – is to the Bancroft Library. The project spent $249,500 to acquire “A Family Sketch,” Samuel Clemens’ 64-page, unpublished tribute to his daughter, Olivia “Susy” Clemens, who died of spinal meningitis at the age of 24.
Where in Berkeley?
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Update, 11.37: Berkeleysider Chip guessed correctly that this is the entrance to University Hotel on University between Shattuck and Milvia. Congratulations Chip on being this week’s winner!
Photo: Keoki Seu.
Tagged Where in Berkeley?
Comment: Richmond Plunge holds lessons for Berkeley
Berkeley resident Henrik Bull believes Berkeley could learn a lot from the process which led to the renovation and recent reopening of the Richmond Plunge in Point Richmond — in particular with regard to the plans for the Warm Pool at Berkeley High School’s Old Gymnasium.
The City of Berkeley could learn a lot from its neighbor to the north. On Saturday, August 15, the rebuilt Richmond Plunge reopened to the public after nine years of cooperative efforts … Continue reading »
