Daily Archives: November 15, 2010
The Berkeley Wire: 11.15.10
High rate of drug and alcohol use among Berkeley students [Daily Cal]
George Beier won’t run for City Council ever again [Daily Cal]
Berkeley man’s devotion to preserving Lancias [NYT]
Berkeley man severely beaten in Oakland over the weekend [Oakland Tribune]
Mark Twain autobiography hits bookstores today [UC Berkeley News]
Half-off tickets to Berkeley Playhouse’s Cinderella [Savvy Source]
Photo by Ira Serkes/Berkeleyside Flickr pool
UPDATE 10/16: Patrick Kennedy wrote in to say the building above is the ARTech Building at Milvia and Addison. He developed the building in 2002.
Berkeley Student Food Collective opens for business
The idea for the student run grocery market — which sells healthy, sustainable take-out food and produce — was born in early 2009 when a group of students protested and prevented the proposed opening of fast food restaurant Panda Express on the … Continue reading »
Conveying the message a quintessential Berkeley way
Berkeley is known for many things — among them our fondness for bumper stickers. Indeed, might it be that Berkeley is the world capital of bumper stickers? It’s a thought.
Berkeleysider Elliot Busch-Wheaton sent in the one pictured here with the following note: “Hopefully the attached speaks for itself. My wife and I (South Berkeley residents) made it up and have been laughing about it all day.”
If you have missed the contretemps about our city’s … Continue reading »
Who grabbed the Snitch when Cal met Stanford?
If you were wondering about the result of the first Big Sweep — the Quidditch match between Cal and Stanford — rest easy. Cal won comfortably, but Berkeleysider Roland Saekow, who kindly provided the video above, doesn’t remember the final score (commenters: please help out). There is a Big Sweep trophy, which might one day be as storied as the Stanford Axe. Check back here in 118 years.
Now, could someone explain again the difference between … Continue reading »
Big Screen Berkeley: Four Lions
In 1965, a new television series entitled Hogan’s Heroes caused mild outrage by (according to its critics) trivializing the horrors of World War II. Now writer-director Chris Morris’s new film, Four Lions (currently playing at San Francisco’s Lumiere Theatre — an East Bay run seems unlikely) threatens to provoke similar howls of disgust concerning its treatment of the so-called ‘War on Terror’ — assuming enough of the right (or wrong) people see it.
However, with its focus firmly upon the … Continue reading »
