Daily Archives: December 6, 2010
The Berkeley Wire: 12.6.10
Cal chancellor talks about impact of international students [UCB News]
Sungevity moves headquarters from Berkeley to Oakland [Oakland Tribune]
Pricey security upgrades for chancellor’s house [Daily Cal]
Report from Berkeley-Stanford CleanTech conference [Cleantech blog]
Authors hold fundraiser for Berkeley grads detained in Iran [Oakland Tribune]
How Wavy Gravy got his ice cream flavor [The Feast]
Photo: Berkeley GATS by therealmichaelmoore/Berkeleyside Flickr pool.
Berkeley will consider enticements for business
Free parking for Christmas shopping. An end to food restaurant quotas on Solano Avenue. Early bird parking discounts in three of Berkeley’s garages.
These are just three of the measures a trio of Berkeley officials will introduce at the City Council meeting Tuesday night.
In a document titled “Encouraging Economic Development and Increasing City Revenue From Business Activity,” Council members Laurie Capitelli, Susan Wengraf and Daryl Moore have outlined their blueprint for making it easier for small businesses to … Continue reading »
Al Jazeera radio station comes to Berkeley airwaves
Berkeley residents will be among the first in the country to get access to an hour-long radio news show produced by the Al Jazeera network.
The Pacifica Foundation announced on Monday that it would run the radio broadcasts on three of its stations – KPFA in Berkeley, WBAI in New York and KPFT in Houston.
The show was broadcast today in Berkeley, will start on Tuesday in the other cities and will be expanded to the … Continue reading »
Santas, santas everywhere
The Bay Area was awash with Santas on Saturday, as hundreds of people took to the streets of Berkeley, San Francisco, and other environs dressed in that familiar red and white outfit.
The Santa sightings were part of SantaCon, an annual event that encourages ordinary people to dress up like Santa and drink and local bars.
The Santas in the picture were spotted Saturday afternoon on Oxford near University by videographer Tanya Miller. When I … Continue reading »
Police warn residents to be wary of solicitors
The Berkeley Police Department is warning residents, particularly in north Berkeley, to be wary of door-to-door solicitors who falsely claim to be students raising money for athletic programs, or young people selling magazine subscriptions without a business license.
In his latest newsletter to Area 1 residents, Officer Casimiro Pierantoni reports that young people claiming to be from Berkeley High School have been doing door-to-door soliciting. Pierantoni checked with the school which confirmed it does not have any student programs … Continue reading »
Richard Nagler: Waiting for the decisive moment
Richard Nagler was a painter until he decided to be a photographer. “Paintings are about the painter,” he told a rapt audience at UC Berkeley’s Center for Photography at the Graduate School of Journalism on the evening of November 30th. “Photography is about ‘the other’, about what you see. It’s not about yourself. That’s why, emotionally, photography spoke to me.”
Berkeley’s Heyday Books has just published Nagler’s third book of photography, “Word on the Street”, which … Continue reading »
