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 25, 2010
The Berkeley Wire: 10.25.10
Academics in Berkeley try to decipher the Tea Party [Slate]
Berkeley’s Robin Lakoff pronounces on cheddarbomb, mama grizzly [Fox News]
What happened to Berkeley’s gamma ray telescope [Space Daily]
AC Transit board candidates discuss policies [Daily Cal]
Morning Benders, “dudes from Berkeley”, gets raves in Denver [Westword]
Flying kites at Cesar Chavez Park by Henry Simpson/Flickr
Thanks from Mr. Mopps’
When Berkeleyside first wrote about Mr Mopps’ toy store in April, we could not have anticipated the reaction. That story, breaking the news that the long-established neighborhood toy store in North Berkeley was closing, had 905 Facebook Likes, 21 tweets and 30 comments. More importantly, as it turned out, it also set a number of people to wondering how they could save the store.
As we reported earlier this month, Devin McDonald and Jenny Stevenson read our article … Continue reading »
Tagged Devin McDonald, Jenny Stevenson, Mr. Mopps'
Seeking: Ernest Hemingway’s home in Berkeley
If the house is right, it could play a major role in a film about Ernest Hemingway which is being shot in the Bay Area next year and is set to star Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen.
Thanks to Ira Serkes over at Berkeley Blog Cast, we learn that HBO Films is making Hemingway & Gellhorn, a drama centered on the romance between Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn, and location scouts are looking for a house, perhaps in the Berkeley hills, … Continue reading »
No on Measure P?
Berkeleysider Alan Tobey beat me to the punch with his comment earlier today about yard signs. When I was doing my count of District 8 signs, I saw plenty of signs on what I thought were Measure P. Having followed the election pretty closely, I wasn’t familiar with Measure P. When I went from car driver to pedestrian, the confusion cleared — those “No on Measure P” signs were actually “No on Measure R”, with a “greenwashing” of the … Continue reading »
Tagged Election 2010
Election 2010: counting the signs
With the election little more than a week away, local campaigns can be frustrating for political junkies. There are no polls for amateur Nate Silvers to pore over, no phalanx of commentators wondering about every slip or coup, no barrage of television ads to sift. So how can we take the temperature before election day?
I spent part of this morning wandering around the streets of my district, District 8, where incumbent Gordon Wozniak is facing challengers Stewart Jones … Continue reading »
Berkeley Rep’s Great Game is powerful
The New York Times ran a front-page story Saturday that said Iranian officials had been slipping money secretly to Afghan President Hamid Karzai. The Iranians wanted to try and counter the influence of the west – and make sure they had a foothold when the Americans depart.
This comes as no surprise to those who attended Berkeley Rep’s all-day Friday marathon of Great Game: Afghanistan, a three play production of the history of Afghanistan. For almost 200 years, … Continue reading »
Do the Berkeley police need wildlife training?
It was recently reported that the Oakland Police Department is to undergo mandatory annual training in handling dogs and wildlife. This came in the wake of two cases in which officers shot respectively a fawn and a dog in the city.
Berkeleyside was curious to find out whether the Berkeley Police Department might choose to follow suit, given that wildlife has been something of an issue in our city’s streets over the past few months.
Back in May a lone deer … Continue reading »
Tagged Berkeley wildlife, Mountain lions
