Daily Archives: March 7, 2011
The Berkeley Police Deparment reports that there was a collision after 4:00pm this afternoon involving a bus operated by Berkeley Lab and two pedestrians at Center Street and Shattuck Avenue. At least one of the pedestrians was seriously injured and has been transported to a local trauma center, according to Sgt. Mary Kusmiss. Kusmiss says the police began receiving calls at approximately 4:28pm. “A large crowd formed that had to be asked to move back so that the Berkeley Fire Department personnel could work. The crowd was exhibiting a great deal of verbal energy, taking photographs and such.” She says there were no significant altercations.
Update, 18:25: According new information from the BPD, and according to preliminary details, the bus was travelling westbound on Center Street and was making a right/northbound turn onto northbound Shattuck Avenue. … Continue reading »
The Berkeley Wire: 03.07.11
March 9: “Out: The Glenn Burke Story” film to benefit BHS Gay-Straight Alliance [BPT]
For God’s sake my penis was ruined”: Cal scene stays with new parent [Jewish Journal]
Students criticize UC Berkeley Police’s response to last week’s protests [Daily Californian]
Merce Cunningham: A long-absent comedy leaps out for a farewell [New York Times]
KALW’s West Coast Live being broadcast live at Berkeley’s Revival Bar & Kitchen [WCL]
UC Berkeley bomb squad helps destroy tear gas grenades in Marin [Marin Indy Journal]
What’s next for the Berkeley Patients Group? [East Bay Express]
Vlogging Tilden Park: deer, pigs and slugs topped by Cheeseboard visit [ Mr Gregory Nice]
Photo by hechoenmano/Berkeleyside Flickr pool.
Comic bookstore The Escapist to open on Claremont Ave.
Michael Chabon will be happy. A new comic bookstore, whose name was inspired by a character in one of Chabon’s own novels, will open soon just a hop and a skip away from his Berkeley home in the Claremont neighborhood.
Jack Rems, owner of science fiction and fantasy bookstore Dark Carnival says he will open The Escapist at the retail space he owns two doors down from his shop at 3086 Claremont Avenue, and it will be stocked with the inventory he bought from Comic Relief, the venerable Berkeley store that closed down on Valentine’s Day.
As we reported on January 18, Rems had originally wanted to take over the lease at the Comic Relief space at 2026 Shattuck Avenue. But, he says, that proved unworkable.
“I was less than confident I could pay the rent there,” he says, explaining that the landlord, John Gordon, had made concessions to the previous tenants which he was reluctant to do with a new one. Rems also felt unsure about the potential of the location. “There are a lot of boarded-up stores in that block of downtown,” he says. “I like it here better,” he says referring to Claremont Avenue. “There are no parking meters and I can control both stores more easily.” … Continue reading »
Berkeley Lab received 21 submissions for possible sites for a second campus, according to Jon Weiner, a lab spokesman.
Eight East Bay cities, including Berkeley, Oakland, Albany, Richmond, Alameda, Walnut Creek and Dublin pitched sites for the new campus, according to various news reports. The proposed sites include a 30-acre swath of land adjacent to Golden Gate Fields, two different areas near Aquatic Park, four sites in Oakland, a joint Berkeley-Emeryville site and many more.
The lab plans to narrow the list down to as few as four sites by April, with the goal of selecting a final site in June. The lab would not move onto the new campus until 2015.
Berkeley Lab wants to consolidate the facilities it has spread out around the East Bay. The new site should accommodate as much as two million square feet in office and laboratory space and a 3,000-foot long space for a new Advanced Light Facility, according to the lab’s Request for Qualifications.
Jewish student sues UC Berkeley over assault by Palestine supporter
A former Jewish student at UC Berkeley has filed a lawsuit against the university contending it violated her civil rights when it did not protect her against attacks from a pro-Palestinian student.
Jessica Felber filed the lawsuit in the Northern District Court on March 4, almost one year to the day Husam Zakharia, the head of Berkeley’s Students for Justice in Palestine, allegedly rammed her with a shopping cart filled with toys, according to the suit.
Felber, then 20, was a member of the pro-Israel Tikvah group, which had often clashed on campus with Students for Justice in Palestine. Felber was holding a sign stating “Israel Wants Peace,” on March 5, 2010 as part of an event for Israel Peace Week. The rally had been called to counteract rallies held on behalf of Israel Apartheid Week. … Continue reading »
Deborah Oropallo explores the dark side of fairy tales
Deborah Oropallo has been fascinated with dress-up costumes for a while. The type adults order online, as opposed to the kids’ variety. French maid and nurses’ uniforms, Little Bo Peep get-ups and frilly princess dresses informed the pieces she created for her previous body of work, and they reappear in “Tale Spin”, her new exhibition which opened on Friday at Gallery 16 at 501 Third Street in San Francisco.
This time, the theme is fairy tales and Lolita says Oropallo, who has lived and worked in West Berkeley for the past 30 years. “There is always a very subversive edge to fairy tales,” she says. “And girls are always the victims.” As she writes in the exhibition catalog: “Fairy tales were morality plays meant to scare girls into being good. In that tradition, these paintings are cautionary tales; meant to be dark, fractured, edgy, sexy, and funny. Dangerous and wicked, the girls have turned into women, in a post feminist age… and the wolf is on the run.” … Continue reading »
Berkeley’s Donkey and Goat wine bash draws hundreds
Close to 400 people came to Jared and Tracey Brandt’s Donkey and Goat on Saturday to try the urban winery’s new spring releases and taste food prepared by chefs from Gather restaurant. Visitors got the chance to try Prospector, a wine made from Mourvèdre grapes, a 2008 syrah made from the Fenaughty vineyard in El Dorado County, and many other wines. There was grilled calamari, pig’s head cuts, and other delectables to eat.
