Daily Archives: December 3, 2010
The Berkeley Wire: 12.03.10
Rep’s Composer is Dead is “wickedly droll” [Mercury News]
Helpful tips on where to eat late night in Berkeley [Chowhound]
Cal volleyball faces Utah State at home in NCAA first round [CalBears.com]
Anthropologist wins major grant to study politics of religious freedom [UCB]
You’re Perfect by Keoki Seu/Berkeleyside Flickr pool
A man was robbed at gunpoint last night just before 7 p.m. on the 1600 block of Lincoln in North Berkeley. There has been a spate of armed robbery in North Berkeley recently. According to the Berkeley Police Department, the victim was sitting in his parked car when he was approached by a black male who presented a handgun and demanded the man’s property. The victim gave the robber his wallet and keys, and the suspect fled on foot. The police have no other leads on the crime. If anyone has information related to the crime, they can phone the police on (510) 981-5900.
Berkeley Apple Store designs show building changes
When Berkeleyside broke the news that an Apple Store was moving into Fourth Street, officials from neither Apple nor the city could confirm the story. But ifoAppleStore, a site dedicated to news about Apple’s retail operations, yesterday revealed the full details of the store from drawings filed with the city in mid-November.
The submitted drawings show Apple is planning to fill in the plaza in front of the existing store, which used to house the Slater Marinoff furniture … Continue reading »
How brainy is Berkeley?
The website Portfolio.com recently engaged in a research exercise to identify the smartest cities in the country. Looking at the 200 largest metropolitan areas in the nation, from New York City to Burlington, Vermont, Portfolio used statistics from the latest American Community Survey to determine the brainiest towns.
The San Francisco/Oakland metropolitan area place a respectable 10th, behind number 1 Boulder, Colorado, and number 2 Ann Arbor, Michigan. With two college towns leading the pack — unsurprisingly — where … Continue reading »
Doctor’s orders: Eat your greens says Preston Maring
Here’s a notion that hardly seems radical: longtime Berkeley resident Dr. Preston Maring thinks physicians should prescribe healthy eating along with dispensing drugs to their patients.
Maring, Associate Physician-in-Chief at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Oakland, believes doctors should also walk the walk about the preventive health benefits of sound nutrition.
He’s so committed to the good food cause he’s willing to show other medical professionals how to mince garlic and whip up vinaigrette from scratch for … Continue reading »
Judge hears Mitch Kapor Berkeley home case
A long-awaited hearing was held on Wednesday morning at Alameda County Superior Court in a case that sees the city of Berkeley pitched against a group of Berkeley residents over a well-known software mogul and philanthropist’s attempt to build a new, contemporary-style home at 2707 Rose Street.
After the application by Lotus founder Mitch Kapor and his wife Freada Kapor-Klein to construct a new house on their Rose Street lot was initially approved by Berkeley’s zoning board in January, … Continue reading »
