Daily Archives: June 7, 2011
The Berkeley Wire: 06.07.11
Car fished from Berkeley’s Aquatic Park lagoon empty, stolen in S.F. [Chronicle]
Berkeley Bionics partners with 10 U.S. rehabilitation centers [Marketwire]
Berkeley’s 99% invisible monument to free speech [KALW]
Piedmont Avenue project restores aesthetic appeal [Cal Bears]
Moe’s unveils online cookbook catalog [East Bay Express]
Memorial service on Saturday for BHS alum who died at Bennington [Facebook]
Photo: Look up when you’re in the dollar store, by CoriKesler/Berkeleyside Flickr pool.
Saul’s to cook street food at Berkeley’s Off The Grid
Saul Deli‘s Executive Chef Peter Levitt will be rustling up some street eats at Berkeley’s second Off The Grid street food event in the Gourmet Ghetto.
Levitt will be using Off The Grid’s own truck which was created expressly to allow chefs and members of the general public to test out the experience of operating a food truck.
Saul’s street-food menu sticks to its Jewish, sustainable roots and will consist of Raspberry Lemonade; Saul’s Pickle Plate; Chicken Matzo Ball Soup; Fired Corn on the Cob with Spiced Gribenes; Potato Latke, Apricot Sauce, Crème Fraiche; Savory Potato Kugel with Crème Fraiche; Corned Beef On Challah Roll, Mustard; Sweet Peach and Brandied Prune Kugel with Whipped cream; and a Choco Halvatashen Cookie. Prices range from $2.00 to $4.00.
Off The Grid, which operates several regular street-food events in San Francisco and is planning further expansion, held a soft launch in Berkeley last Wednesday. Such was its popularity, with estimates of up to 2,000 people turning up, that several of the food trucks ran dry. … Continue reading »
Yarn bombing pops up in the Claremont neighborhood
Citizen reporter Diana Baker spotted this cozy piece of yarn bombing near Star Grocery on Claremont Avenue, in front of Laszlo’s Furniture & Upholstery.
Fourth Street merchants look forward to new Apple store
By Niclas Ericsson
The Apple store that will open on Fourth Street later this year is welcomed by neighboring merchants, who are hoping it will bring more shoppers to the area. They hope it might boost the number of male customers especially, as the current selection of Fourth Street stores has more to offer female customers. The only niggling issue may be parking, said to the merchants.
“The whole street will benefit from it financially,” said Manfred Kroening, co-owner with his wife, Betty, of Bette’s Oceanview Diner of the Apple store that is being built at 1823 Fourth Street, just a stone’s throw away from the restaurant.
“The street hasn’t recovered from the downturn in the economy yet. Especially during the week, businesses are suffering,” he said.
Kroening said he had heard estimates that up to 500 people a day will visit the Apple store. He is hoping that the take-out place that the Kroenings run next to the diner, Bette’s To Go, will benefit from the increased influx of people. As for the diner, more visitors to the area will make less of a difference, he said. … Continue reading »
Michelle Obama is coming to the East Bay and Alice hosts
Alice Waters is going to be doing a lot of cooking when First Lady Michelle Obama comes to the East Bay next week.
So far, Waters has signed up to do two breakfasts on June 14 to help Obama raise funds for the president’s reelection campaign. When supporters gather early in the morning at the Golden State Warriors’ practice arena in Oakland and then at 8:45 am at the Claremont Hotel, they will get “A Locally Produced Breakfast by … Continue reading »
Big Screen Berkeley: Le Quattro Volte
You don’t need to like goats to appreciate Le Quattro Volte (The Four Times)—a new Italian film opening this coming Friday, June 10th, at Landmark’s Shattuck Cinemas—but a degree of tolerance for Capra aegagrus hircus will help. The aroma of goat hangs heavy over director Michelangelo Frammatino’s film, so if you consider these humble creatures smelly, noisy, or burdened with unsettling gustatory habits, you should probably give it a miss.
Set deep in rustic Calabria, Italy, Le Quattro Volte is a unique drama with enough non-fiction elements to lend it an air of stark realism. The film has no story—at least, not in the traditional sense—but documents the day to day existence of the residents, human and otherwise, of a tiny hillside village.
The primary human character is an elderly goatherd who, we immediately discern, is not in the best of health. His constant coughing does not augur well, and his method of treatment—drinking a mixture of water and dust collected from the floor of the local church—suggests his best days are behind him. Indeed (spoiler ahead), the poor man barely outlives the film’s second reel. … Continue reading »
