Daily Archives: October 19, 2011
The Berkeley Wire: 10.19.11
UC Berkeley prof launches Hybrid Wisdom Labs start-up [Tech Crunch]
Court punishes city for not holding public hearing over development [Daily Cal]
Cal Bears basketball coach to undergo surgery [ESPN]
Neighbors raise concerns over West Campus projects [Daily Cal]
Cal’s roach-like robot could help find quake survivors [CNet]
Photo by raj3636/Berkeleyside Flickr pool.
Local food names sign up for Berkeley Off The Grid truck
Lush Gelato, voted by Berkeleyside readers as the best ice cream shop in Berkeley, will be going mobile tonight and serving its scoops from the guest truck at street food-fest Off The Grid — and a number of other local food names have signed up for future Wednesdays.
The Juice Bar Collective is planning on offering tamales for the Gourmet Ghetto’s Dia de Los Muertos celebration on November 2nd, and Berkeley’s new Local Butcher Shop — opened by former Chez Panisse chef Aaron Rocchino and his wife Monica in August — will host the guest truck on November 9th. Other possibles for future dates include Guerilla Café and Taste of the Himalayas.
The truck is owned by Off The Grid and offered to guest hosts at whichever location the street food fair is taking place. Saul Deli‘s Executive Chef Peter Levitt rustled up pickle plates and potato latkes from the truck in June.
Tonight, Lush will be serving gelato and chocolate sandwiches, a special-menu item designed specifically for Off the Grid, as well as basil, fresh mint chip and salted chocolate chip gelatos. … Continue reading »
How to improve downtown Berkeley? Have your say
The Downtown Berkeley Association is working on implementing a a Strategic Marketing Plan for the the city’s downtown after it was voted a property-based improvement district (PBID) in June.
As part of its analysis work to determine how to enhance the area’s environment and boost economic development, the DBA is soliciting the opinions of Berkeleyans. Do you visit downtown? If not, why not? What is your perception of downtown Berkeley? How could it be improved? What are the priorities you would like … Continue reading »
Town-gown panel to examine Berkeley and sustainability
The second event in The University and the City: Ideas for Partnership, a fall series of evening discussions, will be held tonight on The Environmentally Sustainable City.
Jason Mark, Editor of Earth Island Journal, with moderate a panel of Timothy Burroughs, Climate Action Coordinator for the City of Berkeley, Lisa McNeilly, Director of Sustainability, UC Berkeley, Jason Trager, Environmental Sustainability Director, Graduate Student Assembly, and Claire Evans, lead coordinator of the UC Berkeley Compost Alliance.
Tonight’s panel will focus on … Continue reading »
Seven Berkeley restaurants get value nod from Michelin
Seven Berkeley dining spots have been named Michelin Bib Gourmand restaurants. The ‘Bib’ is bestowed to restaurants where the Michelin judges deem one can eat well for $40 or less (plus tax and tip), and Michelin selected 77 such places for its 2012 San Francisco area guide.
Ippuku, the Japanese dining spot on Center Street, received the accolade for the first time. The other six are: Corso, eVe, Five, Gather, Rivoli, and Thai House.
Ippuku serves traditional yakitori and a wide selection of the Japanese spirit shochu, and has found a loyal following since it opened in July 2010. Not long after its launch, Alice Waters told Berkeleyside that it was one of her favorite haunts. “I really don’t want to tell too many people about it because I don’t want the place to get too busy,” she said.
Michael Bauer included Ippuku in the Chronicle’s Top 100 restaurant list for 2011 and praised chef Christian Geideman for his grilling expertise, and his partner Paul Discoe, who designed the restaurant, for his mastery in carpentry. … Continue reading »
Twenty years after a catastrophe, recollections — Part 3
Berkeleyside invited readers to submit their stories about the 1991 Oakland-Berkeley Firestorm. Here we publish the third of three selections.
[A slideshow that was published earlier today in this story has been temporarily removed as we try to deal with some technical hitches. Apologies to our readers for any inconvenience.]
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By Peter Jenny: In 1991, I was living on 45th street in North Oakland, between Broadway and Telegraph. My neighbor and I were going to have a yard sale October 20th, and I went out early to put up signs. I remember the weather being oddly very hot for 7 a.m. in the morning. … Continue reading »
The lives of the Muwekma Ohlone tribe in Thousand Oaks
Berkeley’s Thousand Oaks neighborhood and its environs are not only regarded as a swell place to live — they have a rich history too. No doubt the two are connected. Tomorrow night, Alan Leventhal, a tribal ethnohistorian specializing in the Ohlone will speak at the invitation of the Thousand Oaks Neighborhood Association about the lives of the Muwekma Ohlone tribe who lived in Thousand Oaks.
The TONA General Meeting, which will feature the talk and an accompanying slideshow, takes … Continue reading »
Where in Berkeley?
Know where this is? Take a guess and let us know in the Comments.
Update, 2:11pm: Ira Serkes correctly identified this bear as being at Cragmont and Regal. Congratulations, Ira, on being this week’s winner. (And to NA Parish for seconding Ira!)
Update, 10.20.11: So far, no correct guesses. We have added a couple of clues in the Comments, and here’s a new photo:
Photo: Nina Hodgson.
