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 16, 2010
The Berkeley Wire: 9.16.10
Berkeley High loses $100k a month because of truancy [Eye on Berkeley]
J-School backs off proposed $5,000 professional fee [SF Business Times]
Cal beat Colorado so badly a fan wants his money back [Colorado Daily]
UC law professor one of California’s best female bicyclists [UC Berkeley News]
Sikh student targeted in UC hate crime [Daily Cal]
Photo of fountain at Lawrence Hall of Science by JAR/Berkeleyside Flickr pool
Restraining order served on Berkeley High counselor
A counselor at Berkeley High School has been issued with a restraining order, following allegations that last year he harassed a student who is now a senior at BHS.
Anthony Smith was accused last year of sexually harassing a student, according to court documents. Smith has denied the accusations. The school district, according to a July 12th letter to the student’s parents from Interim Director of Personnel Services Cliff Wong, found Smith “engaged in inappropriate and unprofessional behavior contrary … Continue reading »
Provence in Berkeley
For the past 18 years, Kermit Lynch, the world-renowned wine dealer, has been bringing a touch of the south of France to his store on San Pablo Avenue.
Each fall, Kermit Lynch teams up with his next door neighbor, Café Fanny, to put on Provence in Berkeley, a day that celebrates everything French.
That means dozens of bottles of refreshing rose, white, and red wine, Christopher Lee’s hearty French bouillabaisse, local musicians, and more. The only thing … Continue reading »
Lawrence Berkeley Lab seeks second campus
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory seems to Berkeleyans to sprawl over the hills above the university. But with only 200 acres, the lab finds itself pressed for space. Most of the 4,200 employees are on the site in the Berkeley hills, but about 20% are at the Joint BioEnergy Institute in Emeryville, the Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center in Oakland or the Life Sciences Division in West Berkeley.
LBL … Continue reading »
Will Mitch Kapor persevere to get his Berkeley home?
It’s been a while since we checked in on Lotus founder and philanthropist Mitch Kapor and his attempt to move to Berkeley — indeed to build a new home for himself here.
As some readers will doubtless remember, late in 2009 Mr Kapor applied to build a 6,478 sq ft, contemporary house in north Berkeley at 2707 Rose Street, on a 0.68 acre lot complete with old house that he acquired in August 2008.
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