Daily Archives: December 1, 2010
The Berkeley Wire: 12.01.10
Locanda Da Eva restaurant on the block for $250,000 [Eater SF]
Berkeley disabilities group sues Cinemark over closed captioning [AP]
Grief interrupts an idyllic freshman year at UC Berkeley [NYT]
East Bay Green Corridor announce solar energy partnership [BACC]
Aurora Theatre announces sixth annual Global Age project finalists [Aurora]
Berkeley Police arrest two robbery suspects [Daily Californian]
A taste of the old world: European holiday desserts circa 1499 [East Bay Express]
Security company is quiet on Big Game crowd control [Stanford Daily]
Photo: Thanksgiving sunrise by Keoki Seu/Berkeleyside Flickr pool.
Holiday shopping: Support Berkeley merchants, artisans
It’s not hard to keep your holiday shopping local when there’s such a bounty of possibilities within walking or short driving distance in Berkeley.
To help boost the coffers of your community’s hardworking merchants and crafts-people this year, rather than those of some out-of-town corporate behemoth, we’ve created an inaugural Berkeleyside Holiday Shopping Guide. Feel free to tell us about stores, events and sales we’ve missed in the comments section and we’ll update the guide.
Craft and … Continue reading »
Armed robbery on Dwight at Fulton Sunday night
The UC Police reports there was an armed robbery at the intersection of Dwight Way and Fulton Street on Sunday, November 28 at approximately 9:00 p.m.
The male victim stated that someone pressed something against his neck which he thought was a gun and demanded his property. The victim complied and the four male suspects were last seen fleeing in a white sedan, possibly a Ford Taurus, westbound on Telegraph Avenue. The victim was not injured during the encounter.
The suspects are … Continue reading »
Math, sex and tattoos: Cal prof stirs it up with short film
Professor Edward Frenkel’s 26-minute film, Rites of Love and Math, which has its North American première tonight, Wednesday, December 1, at Berkeley’s Shattuck Cinemas, has triggered an upset on campus, according to UC Berkeley News Center which reports … Continue reading »
Where in Berkeley?
Know where this is? Take a guess and let us know in the comments.
Update, 10.05: Bryan Garcia correctly guessed that this is the front part of a body hood, grill and fenders in a yard at the north west corner of Derby and Fulton. Congratulations, Bryan, on being this week’s winner.
Photo: bobcrazybear
$1 million for branch libraries; lawsuit pending
Just months before renovations begin on two of Berkeley’s branch libraries, the Neighborhood Library Campaign announced that it has raised more than $1 million – almost a third of its $3.5 million goal — for the restoration work.
The funds will be used to repair the oak furniture in the Claremont and North branch libraries, buy new desks, chairs and tables, change out fluorescent lights, and acquire other equipment for the North and West branches, according to Linda Schacht Gage, the chair of the Neighborhood Library capital campaign.
“It shows that the community is behind us,” said Gage.
The $1 million came from a group of about 100 people, and the campaign will now branch out more broadly to ask for support. The Friends of the Berkeley Public Library donated $150,000 and the filmmaker Saul Zaentz contributed $25,000, she said. Then, in late November, one donor gave $200,000 and another contributed $250,000, putting the fund over the $1 million mark. Both will remain anonymous for a while, said Gage.
But the good fundraising news is shadowed slightly by recent challenges to the city’s plans to renovate its four branch libraries by 2013. A group calling itself Concerned Library Users filed a lawsuit against Berkeley in September (you can download a PDF of the nine-page filing), contending that funds from Measure FF cannot be used to tear down and rebuild the South and West branches, which the city wants to do. … Continue reading »
