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 24, 2010
The Berkeley Wire: 8.24.10
UC Berkeley posts second in Washington Monthly college rankings [LA Times]
Asbestos exposure suspected at Washington Elementary School [Berkeley Daily Planet]
Berkeley: a world-class marina for fishermen [Chester County Daily Local News]
Pho Noa Noodle Soup on Shattuck has closed up shop [Hat-tip Ira Serkes]
Rap lyrics get UC Berkeley prof into trouble in long-running dispute [The BVX]
Photo: bobcrazybear/Berkeleyside Flickr pool.
Feeling hot, hot, hot
It didn’t take long for all of us who spent weeks complaining about how chilly it was to start moaning about how hot it now is.
Berkeleyans are a-twitter on Twitter about the soaring barometer, posting Tweet-photos of the temperature (above), comparing notes on where to take refuge in our largely non-air-conditioned city (the car or the grocery store seem to be top spots) and generally kvetching about the heat.
Worry not folks. It’s cooling down starting … Continue reading »
Berkeleyans brave the Bay to Swim Across America
On September 25 Berkeleyan Susan Helmrich will dive into the frigid waters of the San Francisco Bay and swim across America. Not literally, of course, but she may feel she is swimming for her life.
Helmrich, a health and wellness coach who lives in south Berkeley, is a three-time cancer survivor. This time last year she was unable to participate in the Swim Across America event because she was undergoing 6.5-hour neuroendocrine pancreatic surgery which was followed by … Continue reading »
UC prof tells students they have been “swindled”
Michael O’Hare, a professor at UC’s Goldman School of Public Policy, will formally welcome new students to the classroom on Wednesday.
But in advance of starting his first-day lecture, O’Hare has written a lengthy welcome note that tells students how they have been “swindled.”
The once gold-plated education offered by UC Berkeley is now a tarnished version of its former self, ruined by the state’s self-interests and narrow viewpoints, according to O’Hare.
“Welcome to Berkeley, probably still the … Continue reading »
Michael Pollan speaks on egg recall
Local food expert Michael Pollan was on CNN Monday night explaining why no one should be surprised that 550 million eggs have been recalled because they may have been tainted by salmonella.
Salmonella in eggs can be linked back to the 1970s and 1980s when industrial farmers started crowding chickens together to streamline their growth, said Pollan, a professor at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Nowadays, there can be 10 chickens to a cage, … Continue reading »
Big Screen Berkeley: The Expendables
Every now and then I indulge myself with a good old-fashioned popcorn movie. Man cannot live on foreign films, documentaries, and Gus Van Sant movies alone after all, and when promotional teasers for The Expendables began inundating the net earlier this year, I knew I’d found my popcorn candidate for Summer 2010.
The film relates the adventures of a motorcycle club which, when its members are not busy getting new tattoos, hire themselves out as mercenaries. The five are Barney … Continue reading »
