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: September 14, 2010
The Berkeley Wire: 9.14.10
iPads and panini at new Shattuck cafe opened by ex AC Milan soccer player [Thrillist]
BAHA offers free walking tours of downtown ahead of Measure R [BAHA]
UC Berkeley researchers develop e-skin with semiconductor nanowires [eWeek]
If you hurry, you could see the Cal volleyball team destroy another opponent [Daily Cal]
Berkeley is number 10! In the college rock music rankings [Spinner]
Jockey paralyzed in fall at Golden Gate Fields race Sunday [Bay City News]
Photo of honeybee by Dan Brekke/Berkeleyside Flickr pool
Going underground: dinners feature Berkeley wineries
Berkeleyans will have the chance to dip their toes into the underground dining movement tonight as the first of a new wine club dinner series kicks off in a loft on Seventh Street.
Organized by the people behind the recently launched Beehive Market, the weekly Tuesday-night dinners will celebrate vintners who are working here in the East Bay, including in Berkeley.
Julia Fry, co-founder with Isaac Cronin of the Beehive Market, came up with with the idea of … Continue reading »
City annual report highlights budget challenges
Phil Kamlarz, Berkeley’s long-serving city manager, stresses the budgetary challenges Berkeley faces in the city’s annual report, issued this week.
The city works on a biennial budget cycle, but the stresses of the current economic crisis have meant that the budget is subjected to regular revision. At the beginning of this year, in the middle of the current two-year cycle, the city had projected a $16 million deficit for the 2011 fiscal year. That would have required … Continue reading »
Tagged Phil Kamlarz
William Stout bookstore opens outpost in Berkeley
The highly regarded architectural bookstore William Stout is opening its first store outside San Francisco Wednesday on Solano Avenue in Berkeley.
The shop — at 1605 Solano next door to the Custom Spaces kitchen and bathroom store — will carry new, used, and out-of-print books on architecture, interiors, photography, arts and crafts and urban planning. It will be managed by Stout staffer Matthew Swiezynski.
Bill Stout says he chose Berkeley because of the bookstore’s ongoing publishing collaboration with UC Berkeley, and because the … Continue reading »
Tagged William Stout
Breaking: Sarah Shourd released from Iranian prison
Sarah Shourd, one of the three former UC Berkeley grad students held since last July in prison in Iran, has been released, according to several news wire stories.
“She is free,” Shourd’s attorney Masoud Shafii said. “She is coming out of prison right now,” the Washington Post reported at 11.45am Eastern.
The Tehran Public and Revolutionary Courts website reported that Shourd was released from prison “at the order of the case inspector and with the agreement of … Continue reading »
Tagged Hikers in Iran, Josh Fattal, Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer
Big Screen Berkeley: The Sicilian Girl
The writhing tentacles of the Cosa Nostra have been catnip for filmmakers in both the United States and Italy for many years. But is the gangster film beginning to lose a little juice? Has the last drop of drama finally been wrung from the made men of the mafia? The Sicilian Girl (La siciliana ribelle), a new drama from director Marco Amenta opening at the Shattuck Cinemas Friday September 17, suggests that such may be the case.
Based on a … Continue reading »
Tagged Shattuck Cinemas, The Sicilian Girl
