Daily Archives: January 3, 2011
The Berkeley Wire: 1.3.11
Albany and Berkeley can’t agree on banners for Solano Avenue [Albany Patch]
Kay Kerr, co-founder of Save the Bay, dies [SF Chronicle]
North German restaurant and bakery to open on San Pablo [SF Weekly]
Demanding lives: Cal students pursue sports and engineering [Berkeley Engineering]
Cartoonist Neil Gaiman and singer Amanda Palmer wed at Chabon/Waldman house [Bleeding Cool]
Photo: Mastheads at the Berkeley Marina by E>mar/Flickr.
Berkeley’s Chamber of Commerce names new joint CEOs
The Berkeley Chamber of Commerce has new leadership, four months after its previous CEO left his post abruptly just eight months into his tenure.
The Chamber last week named Polly Armstrong and John DeClercq joint CEOs, stating that they would be advocates for all local businesses, and support “the economic and civic strength needed to build a city based on the principles of smart, sustainable growth, business innovation and retention”, as well as a solid tax base. The … Continue reading »
Oaks Theater on Solano closes, future uncertain
The Oaks Theater on Solano Avenue has gone dark once again.
Nine months ago, five men from India formed a group to take over the theater and bring in first-run films and Bollywood extravaganzas and serve dinner and drinks. Few of those plans came to fruition and the group, Merriment Media, stopped showing films shortly before Christmas.
“We weren’t able to meet our monthly expenses,” said Rama Sagiraji, who managed the theater for the group … Continue reading »
Big Screen Berkeley: 2010 Year in Review
2010 was not a very good year for the motion picture arts and sciences. Well, it wasn’t very good politically, economically, or in most other respects, either — but cinema was probably due for a period of the doldrums, and 2010 appears to have marked the beginning of such a period.
The pallid, peaked nature of this year’s movie crop was underscored for me during the holiday movie-going season. I was unenthusiastic about the latest Coen Brothers feature, True Grit—a … Continue reading »
Jane Fonda sees in the new year at Chez Panisse
“Orgasmically great” is how Jane Fonda describes the many dishes she sampled at Chez Panisse, after being invited by owner Alice Waters to join her there three days ago on new year’s eve.
Writing on her blog, JaneFonda.com, the Hollywood star/fitness guru/political activist, who celebrated her 73rd birthday last month, says she is a huge fan of Waters, (who, she adds, is becoming a friend), but that she had so far not been to the restaurant. “As we got out … Continue reading »
