Daily Archives: February 9, 2012
The Berkeley Wire: 02.09.12
Aurora Theatre extends “Body Awareness”, adds six nights [Aurora]
Berkeley Lab part of White House poverty push [SF Biz Times]
Body awareness meets emotional obtuseness at Aurora [HuffPo]
Berkeley BART among most common for bike theft [California Watch]
Cal grad students design eco-fridge with 40% less energy [Biz Green]
Berkeley-born slack key guitarist on Hawaiian music [Chronicle]
Photo: Salamander push-up, by gosh!!!/Berkeleyside Flickr pool.
Suspect who rammed police officer has criminal past
Update, 4:15 pm: BPD confirmed that the suspect is Steven Oliver Moore, 48, who lives in Pittsburg, but used to live in Berkeley. He has been the subject of ongoing narcotics investigation, according to Sgt. Mary Kusmiss. Police found a half pound of cocaine on Moore, in his car, and at a nearby house with which he was associated.
Moore was on parole for federal drug and weapons charges at the time of his arrest and is now being detained on new narcotics charges, she said. Moore is in critical but stable condition. The police officer who was hurt was treated and released from the hospital Wednesday night. He has been put on paid administrative leave while the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department and the District Attorney investigate the shooting. … Continue reading »
Berkeley for startups: Perfect or brain drain in action?
A year ago, then-UC Berkeley visiting professor and startup guru Vivek Wadhwa stood before an audience at Berkeley’s Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse and said Berkeley was a natural location for tech startups — given a few “easy fixes”.
“Berkeley is teeming with brilliant people and brilliant professors. It has the culture, the risk takers and the brains — it just needs an epicenter for start-ups like Silicon Valley has,” he said.
Last month, however, responding to newly released employment figures, Wadhwa told the Bay Citizen that Berkeley had created an atmosphere “so toxic” to business that Cal graduates were moving away after school. “The area’s economic survival is at stake,” he said, citing a brain drain running from the East Bay to San Francisco and the South Bay. Wadhwa himself moved from Berkeley to Silicon Valley to be closer to the action he cares about.
So which is it? Technology is more than computers and software, of course. The East Bay is stronger in biotech and renewable energy. And how would you classify Pixar, in neighboring Emeryville, which is still growing strongly? … Continue reading »
Revealed: A Berkeley restaurant guide and labor of love
Over the past 34 years, Art and Lucille Poskanzer, who dine out at least once a week, have compiled what is probably the only dedicated restaurant guide to Berkeley and Oakland. However, unless you happen to work at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, it’s unlikely you will have seen it.
That changes today, as Berkeleyside is honored to be able to introduce “Restaurants in the Berkeley Area”, which includes regularly updated reviews of 100 restaurants in Berkeley and 80 in Oakland, as well as maps and a recent news section.
The printed guide began life in 1978 as “Guide to Berkeley’s Restaurants and Hot Tubs”. It was conceived by Berkeley Lab physicist Art Poskanzer, who, that year, was tasked with hosting an international nuclear physics conference which drew in many out-of-town visitors.
“This was the days before Yelp,” Poskanzer says today. “We wanted to be able to provide a useful dining-out resource for visitors.” … Continue reading »
Maybeck School celebrates namesake’s 150th birthday
More than 200 current students, faculty, staff, parents and alums gathered at Maybeck High School on College Avenue Wednesday to celebrate what would have been the 150th birthday of architect Bernard Maybeck who left an indelible mark on the architecture of Berkeley and the Bay Area.
Stan Cardinet, one of Maybeck High School’s founding teachers, delivered a lecture about Maybeck’s life as an artisan, architect and artist.
A selection of Bernard Maybeck’s original drawings were also hand to view, thanks to the generosity of art … Continue reading »
At Berkeley Jazzschool: first Annual Eddie Marshall Tribute
Just about every city has a first-call jazz drummer, the player that heavyweight out-of-towners hire when they’re traveling without their own rhythm section. From 1968 until his death last September at 73, Eddie Marshall was the cat who got the call.
Even before he became the house drummer at the storied North Beach jazz club Keystone Korner, accompanying a steady parade of legends such as Dexter Gordon, Freddie Hubbard, Stan Getz, Bobby Hutcherson and Woody Shaw, Marshall had established himself as a true trap set poet. An unfailingly swinging and tasteful accompanist whose combination of poise and intensity elevated every gig he played, Marshall choose the San Francisco good life over the New York hustle, assuring that his reputation as a superlative player was confined mostly to his peers.
He was so busy accompanying other players that he was well into middle age before he started to concentrate on leading his own band. When he assembled a quintet in 1989, Marshall recruited veteran peers, like pianist Mark Levine, and rising young stars, like Berkeley High alumnus Peck Allmond. In honor of his life and spirit, the Jazzschool, where Marshall was a longtime faculty member, is launching the Eddie Marshall Scholarship Fund at Freight & Salvage Sunday with the 1st Annual Eddie Marshall Tribute. … Continue reading »
