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: October 4, 2010
The Berkeley Wire: 10.04.10
Michael Bauer dives deep into Japanese cuisine at Ippuku [SF Chronicle]
The Joint, the chiropractic place opens franchise on Telegraph [SF Business Times]
Family, friends remember deceased UC Berkeley student [Daily Cal]
Tonight at Brower Center: Is California on the brink of a water crisis? [Brower]
Meeting on pros and cons of Downtown Area Plan, Tuesday [League of Women Voters]
Photo: Sunday morning, Berkeley pier by JAR/Berkeleyside Flickr pool.
Berkeleyside will carry out maintenance tonight
As Berkeleyside has grown, it seems we’re exceeding the boundaries of our current technical infrastructure. I guess it happens when you serve over 100,000 pageviews a month and have 32,000 unique visitors a month (tooting our horn).
To remedy the problem, we’re going to do some routine maintenance on our server tonight from 7 p.m. Some readers might experience some downtime, but we expect to be completely up and running — with blazing, new response times — within a few … Continue reading »
A big oops! for Berkeley’s Measure H
The impartial analysis of the measure, prepared by the Alameda County Counsel’s office, reports that Measure H will tax homeowners $6.31 a square foot for the measure. Commercial property owners would pay $9.46 per square foot.
That would mean that a family owning a 1,000 … Continue reading »
Tagged Election 2010
Ford Motor Co. takes the pop-up road in Berkeley
Opened on September 29, and running until October 10, the Fiesta Lounge is not a car showroom, nor even … Continue reading »
Tagged Ford Motor Co, Fourth Street
Big Screen Berkeley film quiz: answers and a winner
The submissions have been scrutinized and the scores totted up — and below we reveal the answers to our fiendishly difficult Berkeley Film Quiz.
And, of course, we are excited to announce the winner: Jordan Xu who came in with a perfect 20 out of 20. Congratulations Jordan — a $25 gift certificate to the Summer Kitchen Bake Shop is winging its way to you. And many thanks to Berkeleyside’s fabulously knowledgeable film writer John Seal for compiling the quiz.
Pat Cody, co-founder of Cody’s Books, dies
Pat Cody, who along with her husband Fred, built one of Berkeley’s most beloved institutions, Cody’s Books, died Thursday, Sept. 30 at 87.
Pat, who was born in New London, Connecticut in 1923, was getting her master’s degree in economics at Columbia College when she met her husband, Fred. The pair married in 1946 and lived in England and Mexico City, where they were part of a lively expatriate community.
“They attended social gatherings at the home of Frieda … Continue reading »
Tagged Cody's Books, Pat Cody
