Daily Archives: August 25, 2011
The Berkeley Wire: 08.25.11
Alice Waters serves school lunches, launches T-shirts with Levi’s CEO in SF [Bay Area Bites]
Berkeley High football team poised to contend in ACCAL with new faces [Coco Times]
Jenna Bush, Alice Waters, Jake Gyllenhaal, and the Edible Schoolyard [Today Show]
Death penalty upheld for Berkeley man who killed his sister, nephew [KTVU]
The power of gathering: Alice Waters reads from her new book [Kitchen Sisters]
Live Oak Studio records middle school students for MIMA music video [PRWeb]
Chez Panisse staff and fans celebrate 40 years of Alice’s restaurant [Washington Post]
How much weight can UC Berkeley’s Lower Sproul Plaza take? [Daily Cal]
The real triumph of Alice Waters [aside from dominating today's Wire] [Gilt]
Photo by A. Ess Bee/Berkeleyside Flickr pool.
Summer Cinema: Screening The Big Lebowski Saturday
We’ve had The Princess Bride, Pixar’s Up, and Raiders of the
Lost Ark – and every week the number of participants has swelled at the Center Street outdoor Summer Cinema series, as people take advantage of a pedestrianized street, great food and drink options and a free movie screening.
Saturday sees the grand finale with The Big Lebowski showing on the wall of the future Berkeley Art Museum in the Bank of America parking lot.
“We’re expecting … Continue reading »
The Ukulady strums her way to Mr Mopps’ in Berkeley
By Tara Taylor
Mind your peas and carrots: the Ukulady is in town.
Performing in a toy store is not something new to the Ukulady (Thessaly Lerner). She performed for a group of kids in Heebe Jeebe General Store in Petaluma, but performing at a toy store that haunted her as a child is a whole new territory for the children’s entertainer.
The Ukulady performs with Oakland children’s entertainer and puppeteer Emily Butterfly on Sunday August 27 at 3:00 p.m. at … Continue reading »
Students need a booster shot to attend school
As students in Berkeley prepare to return to school by buying binder paper and pencils, they need something else on their back-to-school shopping list: a booster shot.
A new California law requires all students entering grades 7 through 12 to provide proof they have had a Tdap shot, which provides protection against whooping cough, a bacterial disease that can be deadly.
The Legislature originally passed a law requiring students to get the booster shot by the first day … Continue reading »
Out in Berkeley: Mawungira Enharira transports
More recent atrocities may have pushed the political and economic crisis in Zimbabwe out of the news, but the devastation wrought by the iron-fisted Robert Mugabe and his kleptocratic ZANU-PF party continues apace. During a decade of incomprehensible hardship, the spirit of Zimbabwe’s people has been buoyed by the music of Mawungira Enharira, a hugely popular band that puts a sophisticated, contemporary spin on mbira, a folkloric Shona style played on the thumb piano of the same name.
The … Continue reading »
