Daily Archives: January 27, 2011
The Berkeley Wire: 01.27.11
Plastic bag ban faces delays [Daily Cal]
UC Berkeley’s Geoff Marcy to release data on promising exoplanets [WSJ]
A critic raves about Ippuku, and gets a photograph [San Francisco Magazine]
Revamped Gallego’s gets a thumbs up for Mexican food [Chronicle]
Photo by CT Young/Berkeleyside Flickr pool
What’s with the ailing gray foxes?
Berkeleysider and occasional contributor Kelly Cash writes in:
Last week, in the lowlands off Claremont there was a sick gray fox in our neighborhood, and I just saw a second one in the suburbs near Panoramic.
Do we need to know anything? Do they have distemper? Is someone poisoning them? Should we worry about having our dogs offleash in Tilden?
They look dazed. Sit and circle. Other than the behavior, they … Continue reading »
Outrage on College: where did the fried chicken go?
An email landed in Berkeleyside’s inbox the other day, subject line: “Outrage on College Avenue!” Reader Heidi, who lives in the Elmwood neighborhood, wrote:
Summer Kitchen Bake Shop has taken its fried chicken off the menu!
Everybody loved their fried chicken! It has been the gateway meat for many a small and so-well-raised Berkeley child. It has linked generations of foodies.
And why, I asked, has such a reckless decision been made? “Our menu is constantly evolving.” This is the understatement of this young year! Are they stonewalling us? Have they lost their source for the assertive black pepper in their breading? Can they no longer find sustainable oil for their deep fryer? Do they actually hate my daughters?
Please get to the bottom of this for us! We are helpless and in your hands.
Fondly,
Heidi … Continue reading »
There will be a BHS Community Memorial on Thursday, February 3 after school in the BHS Library for Tim Moellering, the Berkeley High baseball coach who died on Tuesday january 18. Moellering’s family is asking that BHS students planning to attend a memorial for their former teacher attend the one at BHS, rather than the Saturday service at Willard Middle School which is intended primarily for Moellering’s family and old friends. The BHS Community Memorial will allow the BHS community to gather and share memories of the popular coach and teacher in conversations or open mic.
Protesters in Mitch Kapor case say the battle is not over
A group of north Berkeley residents who are contesting the construction of a new home by Lotus founder and philanthropist Mitch Kapor on his property at 2707 Rose Street say they may move for a new trial after a judge ruled against them in December.
“The case is not yet over,” said Susan Nunes Fadley, a member of the Berkeley Hills Preservation group which has protested the bid by Kapor and his wife Freada Kapor-Klein to build a … Continue reading »
