Daily Archives: November 5, 2010
The Berkeley Wire: 11.05.10
Berkeley’s Measure R splits environmentalists [NY Times]
Your assignment for today: improve Wikipedia [UC Berkeley NewsCenter]
KPFA protesters certainly have great music [Vimeo]
Second-ranked Bears volleyball team takes on seventh-ranked USC [Daily Cal]
Humane Society adoption rate drops precipitously after the fire [SF Chronicle]
Yesterday’s sunset (can’t get enough of it) by Danielle Peña
The all-time best sunset?
Lots of Berkeleyans have noticed the extraordinary sunsets we’ve had the last two evenings. Daniel Parks had the wherewithal to get his camera out, get into the hills and take an iconic shot yesterday evening.
Update: It gets better.
Danielle Peña took this amazing photo last night.
Update: And Maureen Sullivan sent in this:
Berkeley High freshman dies after shooting
The 14-year old Berkeley freshman who was shot in the head by his best friend on Saturday has died, according to Berkeley High School Principal Pasquale Scuderi.
Larry Malik Grayson, who went by the name Malik, died Thursday at Highland Hospital after lingering on life support for many days. Grayson was a freshman in the Academic Choice program at Berkeley High. He was on Berkeley High’s freshman football team and had also played football at Willard Middle School, according to some … Continue reading »
Berkeley Bites: Lois Porter, Mamie & Makhi’s Sweet Potato Pie
Lois Porter took a beloved family recipe and developed a sweet potato product that takes some of the time out of cooking with these nutritious tubers.
With the seasonal shift to fall and Thanksgiving around the corner, her perishable product was recently picked up by both Berkeley Bowls and makes its debut tomorrow at the Beehive Market. It is also available at Piedmont Grocery and hits the aisles soon at Whole Foods in Oakland. Under her Mamie … Continue reading »
