Daily Archives: January 6, 2011
The Berkeley Wire: 01.06.11
Berkeley-based Plexxikon signs deal with Genentech [SF Business Times]
Mike Daisy to tackle cargo cults, Steve Jobs at Berkeley Rep [Mercury News]
Peruvian teen accepted to UC Berkeley has deportation stayed [CoCo Times]
Berkeley’s MOG lands big Verizon deal for music streaming service [Chronicle]
Sundance showing for documentary with Berkeley ties [JWeekly.com]
Photo of sign at Picante by CT Young/Berkeleyside Flickr pool
City website down because of expired registration
It’s a bad dream for a lot of web-based organizations: someone forgets to renew a domain registration and you face days — or perhaps permanent — disruption of your service.
That seems to be what has happened to the City of Berkeley, at least for people who visit its cityofberkeley.info domain. Visitors to that site today find a standard page for Register.com, where the old domain was registered. A WhoIs search for the cityofberkeley.info domain suggests that someone in … Continue reading »
Another spate of armed robberies in Berkeley
On Thursday Dec. 30, around 8:30 pm, two Berkeley teenagers were walking along The Alameda near Hopkins Street when two men stopped them to ask for directions.
Suddenly, one of the men pulled out a gun and demanded that the teens hand over their property. The teens complied, and the robbers took off with two cell phones, a wallet, keys and an iPod.
The robbery was just one of five gun-related robberies that happened in Berkeley from Dec. 27 to … Continue reading »
Your neighbors: poster maker Doug Minkler
Kim Aronson is an online community builder who has lived in Berkeley for the past decade. He makes short films on the side. You’ll find his second video for Berkeleyside, about poster maker and teacher Doug Minkler, above.
Watch Aronson’s first Berkeleyside film, about Sunday softball organizer Raymond Weschler.
Famed Balinese music troupe to move to Berkeley
An internationally respected Balinese music and dance troupe that was founded in Berkeley 32 years ago is hoping to return to the city.
Gamelan Sekar Jaya, a 65-member ensemble of musicians and dancers, is planning to move its headquarters into a vacant building at 3023 Shattuck Avenue, site of the former home of the Berkeley Daily Planet.
The building, right near the intersection of Shattuck and Ashby, would provide 1,700 square feet of rehearsal and office space, as well as a set of apartments to accommodate artists visiting from Bali.
“It feels fitting,” said Sara Gambrina-Bekamp, the group’s general manager. “It will be great for us. The place we are in currently is quite cluttered and crowded. We will be able to leave our gamelan instruments set up, and not have to cart them off to storage all the time.” … Continue reading »
A mountain lion was seen walking away from a building at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on Wednesday this week at approximately 8:22 a.m., according to the UC Berkeley police. There have been several sightings of mountain lions in Berkeley in recent months. Last August a mountain lion was shot and killed after being found walking around the Gourmet Ghetto neighborhood. A mother lion and her two cubs, along with deer and goat carcasses, were spotted in September in the LBL area, while, in October, a Berkeleyan reported seeing a mountain lion “sauntering” across Park Hills Road.
