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Daily Archives: December 11, 2012
The Berkeley Wire: 12.11.12
Sunset GGB. Photo: seaangel12
To UC Berkeley civil-rights scholar, race is uppercase concern (UCB)
UC Berkeley receives $1 million for undocumented students (NBC)
Chez Panisse chefs promote fresh-is-best in Havana, Cuba (Wash Po)
Berkeley targets third marijuana outlet (Oakland Tribune)
Homeless youth search for support (BHS Jacket)
UC Berkeley’s colorful new dorm (San Francisco Chronicle)
Berkeley High recognizes World AIDS Day (BHS Jacket)
UC explains purpose of new logo (University of California)
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Shop Talk: The ins and outs of Berkeley businesses
EMERALD CITY GOWNS Emerald City Gowns, a “consignment boutique for the glamorous green bride,” moved last month into a space above Zut restaurant on Fourth Street. Owner Emilie Hofmann specializes in “pre-loved” wedding dresses, a concept she was inspired to pursue when she wanted to trade in her own recently worn wedding gown for a different dress for her best friend and could only find a store that met her needs in the Emerald City, aka Seattle. Emerald City Gowns is at 1822 Fourth Street. Hours: Tuesday-Sunday, but note that appointments are required to try on gowns. … Continue reading »
Benchmark: Wood-fired pizza comes to Kensington
Benchmark Pizzeria quietly opened this summer on the Kensington-Berkeley border. The husband and wife team who run the restaurant come bearing impeccable credentials: Melissa and Peter Swanson met at Oliveto Café & Restaurant in Oakland in 1999. He worked there as a lead line cook before moving on to help Jon Smulewitz open Dopo on Piedmont Avenue, where he worked for six years. Melissa wrote about food the San Francisco Chronicle and Diablo Magazine, among others, and worked at Chez Panisse Café as a server before joining her husband in their new venture. Berkeleyside NOSH caught up with Melissa to see how the neighborhood restaurant is doing six months in.
Why a pizzeria?
Peter has always been passionate about pizza. At Dopo, he became affectionately known as “Pizza Pete” for his development of the dough recipe and nightly work on the pizza ovens. We’ve always envisioned opening a place together offering our favorite food. … Continue reading »
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Patricia Hirabara: A beloved, dedicated public servant
Patricia Hirabara, a lifelong Albany resident and a recreation leader for the City of Berkeley for almost 40 years, died Tuesday, Dec. 4, age 66, a few months before her planned retirement.
Pat, as everyone called her, attended Albany High School, graduated from San Francisco State with a degree in recreation, and went to work for Berkeley recreation programs soon afterwards, in 1969. She earned a teaching credential from California College in 1973.
Over her long career at the City of Berkeley, Hirabara worked at many of the City’s youth programs, including at the City’s Youth Employment Office, the James Kenney Community Center, the Willard Clubhouse, and the Live Oak Community Center, where she was the center director from 1986 to the present. … Continue reading »
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’3 Michaels’ talk writing, inspiration and Berkeley quirks
In an evening designed to focus on the “Berkeleyishness” of Berkeley, and raise money for a great cause, three of the city’s most renowned Michaels kept hundreds of local residents laughing for the better part of 90 minutes with their wit, charm and candor.
Writers Michael Lewis, Michael Pollan and Michael Chabon — all of whom live in Berkeley — answered questions from West Coast Live host and Berkeley native Sedge Thomson, who moderated “The Three Michaels: A Berkeley Conversation” at Berkeley Repertory Theatre on Monday night.
This was the third public forum Berkeleyside has put on, part of its commitment to providing quality conversations and debates on issues that matter to Berkeley, both on- and off-line. (Scroll down for a slideshow, courtesy of Pete Rosos, from the forum.) … Continue reading »
Big Screen Berkeley: The Central Park Five
Throughout the 1970s and ‘80s, New York City was the country’s Sodom and Gomorrah, a place shunned and feared by Middle America. Near bankrupt, its school system in a state of collapse, and riddled with crime, crack cocaine, and urban decay, the city had lost the sheen acquired during the glory days of Fiorello La Guardia and Robert Moses.
On April 19, 1989, a 28-year old investment banker was brutally attacked and left for dead in the northernmost reaches of Central Park. Within days, the New York Police Department claimed they’d found the monsters responsible: five African-American teenagers. The case, and the horrendous miscarriage of justice that followed, is examined in a new documentary, The Central Park Five, opening at Landmark’s Shattuck Cinemas on Friday, December 14. … Continue reading »
