Daily Archives: September 20, 2011
The Berkeley Wire: 09.20.11
Basketball player Grant Verhoeven takes in Berkeley [Bear Insider]
Pimped-out pads: inside Berkeley’s Dachshund house [Dogster]
Berkeley police award PLAY Academy $20,000 for second year [BPD]
25% of Berkeley students have not had whooping cough shot [Daily Cal]
Tomorrow, Wednesday, declared a Spare the Air day [Spare the Air]
Berkeley City Council meets tonight after summer recess [Berkeley]
Berkeley Art Museum tightens belt, gets better fit [Chronicle]
US News and World Report ranks Cal #21 in university rankings [USNews]
New kid on the block: Berkeley’s Sticky Art Lab [510 Families]
Berkeley girl, 5, raises $800 for childhood cancer [Patch]
Berkeley has best success with black students in U.S. [The Grio]
Zaika opens sleek, stylish eatery in Berkeley [IndiaWest]
Photo by NoExcuseG/Berkeleyside Flickr pool.
Berkeleyside writer Sarah Henry wins journalism award
Sarah Henry, Berkeleyside’s food writer since March 2010, was last night presented with the Karola Saekel Craib Excellence in Food Journalism award in recognition of her fine writing and reporting.
The San Francisco chapter of Les Dames d’Escoffier, an international philanthropic society of female leaders in the culinary world, established the fellowship in honor of Karola Saekel Craib, the San Francisco Chronicle reporter whose writing helped to define food journalism as we know it. Saekel Craib, who lived in … Continue reading »
Berkeley City Council to hold hearing on Safeway project
Even though the new Safeway store proposed for College and Claremont Avenues is in Oakland, the project will have significant impacts on Berkeley. To assess how the new supermarket will affect the Rockridge area, the Berkeley City Council will hold a special work session Tuesday night at 5:30 pm.
The city of Oakland sent a draft Environmental Impact Report about the store to Berkeley in July when the council was on recess. Berkeley is holding … Continue reading »
Shop Talk: The ins and outs of Berkeley businesses
THE NICK OF TIME Nick’s Lounge, at 3218 Adeline near Fairview, has been a neighborhood fixture for almost 50 years. Bryan Smith bought the bar in April and has spruced it up, getting rid of the gambling machine and repainting the bar inside and out. He holds karaoke nights on Wednesdays and Thursdays and has live jazz two Saturdays a month. The last Saturday of each month is an “East Bay Open Mic” night, from 7 to 9 p.m. … Continue reading »
Will vacant storefronts tax improve business in Berkeley?
During the month of February, there were 11 vacant storefronts along the top stretch of Solano Avenue, giving the shopping district a slightly beleaguered air.
While the soft economy accounts for some of that vacant frontage, City Councilmember Jesse Arreguín suspects some landlords in Berkeley are keeping rents artificially high, making it difficult for small business owners to find suitable retail space.
Arreguín thinks that Berkeley could minimize the number of vacant storefronts by charging landlords a fee when buildings … Continue reading »
Several Berkeleyside readers witnessed the dramatic result of a collision yesterday on Shattuck Avenue which saw a car overturn and land on its side. According to the Berkeley Police Department, the accident happened shortly after 3:00pm between Lincoln and Virginia. Remarkably, no-one was injured as a result of the incident which involved two vehicles. The overturned car, which landed on its passenger side, was a silver Honda SUV. The southbound lane of Shattuck Avenue was temporarily closed while the accident was investigated and the street cleared. The police have not as yet released details on the cause of the collision.
Big Screen Berkeley: City of Life and Death
Correction, 09.22.11: : Landmark Shattuck is not screening City of Life and Death as previously stated. Instead it is showing exclusively at San Francisco’s Opera Plaza in San Francisco. Apologies for the error and thank you to reader Matthew Kelleher for alerting us to this fact.
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In December 1937, early in the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army occupied the central Chinese city of Nanking (Nanjing). The six weeks that followed became known as The Nanking Massacre or (perhaps … Continue reading »
