Daily Archives: May 13, 2011
The Berkeley Wire: 05.13.11
A Berkeley High student’s death in 1994 spurs gun control in California [NYT]
Geneology searches expand Berkeley Tech teen’s world [SF Chronicle]
City’s Planning Director, Dan Marks, to retire [Berkeley Daily Planet]
Free kids’ car seats inspection in Berkeley on Saturday [510 Families]
Emotional plea from freed hiker, Berkeley grad Sarah Shourd [NBC Bay Area]
Photo: Child picking flowers in Live Oak Park by sisterfish3/Berkeleyside Flickr pool.
Berkeleyside says thank you to its advertisers
Berkeleyside would like to take a minute to express its gratitude to our current advertisers: Actors Ensemble of Berkeley, Amoeba Music, Barbara Hendrickson/Just Sell My House, Bentley School, Berkeley Lab, Berkeley Poetry Festival, Berkeley Rep, Bernardo Lopez Garden Design & Installation, Carolyn Jones at The Grubb Company, Dan Suich, Energy Upgrade California, Focal Point, Hotel Shattuck Plaza/Five Restaurant, Jazz on Fourth, Keneuoe Vivere, Moe’s Books, Photo Laboratory, Sarah Herman Landscape Design, Telegraph Berkeley, UC Berkeley Extension, and UC … Continue reading »
Anti-torture protest on Cal Law’s commencement day
A small anti-torture protest took place today, Friday, at the entrance to UC Berkeley’s Law School on its commencement day. The protestors’ message was targeted at Cal law professor John Yoo.
Reminder: Berkeleyside at Jazz on Fourth, Sunday
Berkeleyside will have a booth at Jazz on Fourth, a music, food, and shopping extravaganza that raises funds for the BHS jazz program — and which takes place Sunday May 15th, noon-5:00pm.
The family-friendly Jazz on Fourth street festival, presented by Fourth Street Merchants and KCSM/Jazz 91, is in its 16th year, and there’s a more than impressive line-up to look forward to.
Up first is the legendary Dixieland outfit Mal Sharpe’s Big Money in Jazz Band. Also playing : the … Continue reading »
Citizen groups sue city over West Berkeley proposals
Two citizens’ groups have sued the City of Berkeley over proposed zoning that they say would radically restructure West Berkeley.
The Sustainable West Berkeley Alliance (SWBA), an organization of Berkeley residents and businesses, and the Council of Neighborhood Associations (CNA), filed their suit in Alameda County Superior Court under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) on May 11.
The suit concerns proposed Master Use Permit (MUP) sites – developments of more than four acres — and focuses on three aspects: the proposal to increase building height limits from 45ft to 75ft, the impact of taller buildings on residents, and the effect of proposed development on the environmental resources of Aquatic Park. … Continue reading »
Berkeley school bands perform at Giants game
On Thursday this week, Berkeley Unified School District’s high-school and middle-school bands joined forces to perform the Star Spangled Banner at the San Francisco Giants baseball game. The excitement was more than palpable — holler and shouting alert. Watch the musicians in action at the 1.55-minute point in the video above (which comes courtesy of BUSD’s Mark Coplan).
Oh, and the score? San Francisco Giants 3, Arizona Diamondbacks 2.
Slow restaurant finds fast following
Kyle Anderson opened his first restaurant, Slow, nine months ago. The skinny slip of an eatery resides in an emerging food corridor on University Avenue, home to Chocolatier Blue, eVe Restaurant, OctoberFeast Bakery and New Amsterdam Coffeeshop. (Anderson is an alum of acclaimed eatery Charlie Trotter’s in Chicago, as are the owners of eVe, and Christopher Blue, who owns the gourmet chocolate shop next door.)
While Anderson comes from a fine-dining culinary background, the food he serves at Slow is simple, rustic comfort fare, albeit with high-quality, mostly organic, ingredients and thoughtful taste pairings like free-range chicken salad with golden raisin, toasted almond, and sorrel, or potato salad with radish, apple, caraway seed and whole grain mustard vinaigrette. All made from scratch and dished up fast at affordable prices. … Continue reading »
What is it with this new generation of Jewish writers?
If nothing else, Berkeley writer Rebecca Spence has chosen an irresistible title for her Sunday talk at Afikomen: Portnoy’s Restraint: How Jewish-American Writers Have Learned to Stop Kvetching (and Love Being Jewish)
Spence, who has her MFA from Bennington College and worked as the West Coast correspondent for The Forward, is writing a Jewish-themed novel of her own.
In her talk, she will discuss Jewish-American writers — from Philip Roth to Michael Chabon, from Nicole Krauss to her husband Jonathan Safran … Continue reading »
