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 14, 2010
The Berkeley Wire: 10.14.10
Violence around People’s Park is issue in District 7 elections [Oakland Tribune]
Activists want City Council to welcome Guantanamo detainees [Examiner]
Berkeley teacher who bit principal reinstated after firing [Daily Cal]
Berkeley REI to hold 35th birthday celebration [Fwix.com]
“Creative activists” jam parking meters with anti-consumerist messages [Adbusters]
Daily Planet starts cartoon section [Daily Planet]
Summer Kitchen and Blue Chair Jams to make gourmet pop tarts [Summer Kitchen]
John Hinkel Park by Jar/Berkeleyside Flickr pool.
Huge book sale at UC Press
UC Press, with its amazing selection of reference books, scholarly tomes, art books and fiction, held its annual sale today. (It continues until 5 pm.) It’s called “The Hurt Sale,” because some of the books have bent pages or torn covers. The staff cordoned off a section of Berkeley Way right outside UC Press’ headquarters to set up a “plein air” bookstore. Hardbacks were $10 and paperbacks were just $5.
There was one entire bookshelf … Continue reading »
Tagged Mark Twain, Mark Twain's autobiography, UC Press
Hearing-impaired kids succeed at Berkeley preschool
The brightly colored classroom looks like any other toddler play area: a wooden slide juts from one wall, a make-believe kitchen sits in a corner, and brightly colored pictures hang on the wall.
Eight children sit around a half-crescent table, laughing with one another and looking expectantly at the teachers who perch near them on toddler-size chairs.
But instead of just communicating with their voices, these toddlers are also talking in sign language, their hands moving rapidly as they discuss … Continue reading »
Apple store set to open on Berkeley’s Fourth Street
Apple will open one of its sleek retail operations on Fourth Street in Berkeley, according to sources close to the negotiations.
The computer giant will take over the former Slater Marinoff space at 1823 Fourth Street, currently being used by Ford Motor Co. as a pop-up store, and will probably open around March next year, according to several reliable independent sources who asked that their names not be used.
Nobody at Apple or in the City of Berkeley would comment … Continue reading »
“Mad Men”: A TV show considered worthy of study
We freely concede this is just an excuse to run photos of beautiful people in gorgeous mid-century clothes, but wouldn’t you want to be a student again if it means you can study “Mad Men”?
This fall, UC Berkeley is introducing a two-unit English course in the campus’s DeCal program focused on the “thematically, symbolically, and historically rich television series “Mad Men”.
For those of you who have been locked in a closet for the past few years (even if you don’t have … Continue reading »
Tagged AMC, Mad Men, UC Berkeley
