Daily Archives: September 27, 2011
The Berkeley Wire: 09.27.11
Two Berkeley Lab scientists win Presidential Early Career Awards [LBL News Center]
Report from College of Arts & Letters reimagines undergraduate education [UCB NewsCenter]
Fifth Quarter Charcuterie debuts at Berkeley’s Saturday Farmers Market [FQ]
UC Berkeley’s Gabor Somorjai wins annual Honda Prize for ecotechnology [Honda]
Tomorrow is a Spare the Air day throughout the Bay Area [BAAQMD]
Photo by A Ess Bee/Berkeleyside Flickr pool.
Council to consider zoning change for “auto row” dealers
In the 1980s, Berkeley instituted zoning changes to prohibit new car sales and other auto-oriented uses in the South Shattuck corridor. The thinking was that industry trends would push dealerships to bigger sites near the I-80 freeway, and that prime property near the downtown could find other uses.
That’s not how things turned out. South Shattuck remains Berkeley’s auto row, with Toyota, Honda and Volvo shortly to be joined by Fiat. All are in long-established car sales facilities. Only … Continue reading »
Diversity bake sale brings out protestors, choppers, media
The helicopters flying over central Berkeley today were just one sign of the media frenzy that has surrounded the announcement by Cal College Republicans that they would hold an “Increase Diversity Bakesale,” to protest a bill that permits consideration of race and economic status in university admissions.
The arrival of Ward Connerly, the former UC Regent who backed Proposition 209, which banned affirmative action in university admissions in 1996, was another sign that dozens of cameras were nearby.
Connerly … Continue reading »
Shop Talk: The ins and outs of Berkeley businesses
TIDY OPENING California Closets has opened a manufacturing and retail space at 1716 Fourth Street and will be holding an official grand opening on October 19th, from 5-8 pm. The company, which is a franchise operation, makes custom closets, and is taking over a mixed-use light industrial-zoned space that has been vacant for several years. The location will also be the company’s regional headquarters and is bringing new jobs to the city as it is currently hiring.
“This is good news for … Continue reading »
“Native Land” at PFA and a Berkeley film festival turns 20
What’s more patriotic than hot dogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet? Why, 1942’s left-wing documentary Native Land, of course. Produced by independent outfit Frontier Films and narrated by Paul Robeson, this remarkable piece of agit-prop comes to Pacific Film Archive at 7:00pm on Sunday, October 2nd as part of UCLA’s Festival of Preservation.
Directed by Leo Hurwitz and Paul Strand (who had cut their cinematic teeth together on Pare Lorentz’s agrarian documentary The Plow That Broke the Plains in … Continue reading »
