Berkeley’s National Landmark Church (above) celebrates 100 years [BAHA]
Taking steps to get the Bay Bridge finished on time [San Francisco Chronicle]
Berkeley’s unemployment rate highest in 10 years [Daily Californian]
How green is my mansion? Mr Kapor’s home begs the question [New York Times]
Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre returns to Berkeley [Contra Costa Times]
Photo: Tracey Taylor.
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The Berkeley Wire: 3.11.10
Enjoy the rain this weekend at “Singin’ in the Rain”
On our family’s to-do list for the weekend is the show, Singin’ in the Rain, produced by Berkeley Playhouse.
It promises to be a delight, with excellent singing, great dancing, and a wonderful sense of fun.
How do I know, when I haven’t seen the production? Because I have loved every other performance this Berkeley group has [...]
Berkeley authors write winning books
Michael Chabon’s collection of essays, Manhood for Amateurs, is up for a non-fiction award from the Northern California Book Reviewers, as well as the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association.
Chabon is one of a handful of Berkeley authors whose books have been singled out for praise.
Berkeley poet Kim Addonozio’s Lucifer at the Starlite is a nominee [...]
Berkeley group hopes Oscar stops dolphin slaughter
Berkeley’s Earth Island Institute, the group behind the Academy Award-winning documentary The Cove, is hoping the Oscar will draw increased attention to the slaughter of dolphins in Japan.
The Cove, will open in Japan next month, tells the story of a cove in Taijicho, a town in southeastern Japan where thousands of dolphins are herded each [...]
Opening: Marc Riboud photography
This Friday, March 12th, sees the official opening of the “Marc Riboud Photographs” exhibition at the Graduate School of Journalism Center for Photography at UC Berkeley.
Marc Riboud is considered one of the great photojournalists of the 20th century. He joined the Magnum photo agency in Paris in the early 1950s and traveled extensively, working with Magnum [...]
Imperfect Endings: Can a daughter help her mother kill herself?
Zoe Fitzgerald Carter was living in Berkeley with her husband and two daughters when her mother began to call from Washington DC to talk about ending her life. Carter’s mother, Margaret, a vivacious, intelligent woman, was suffering from Parkinson’s and a host of other ailments and could no longer stand the pain. She wanted to [...]
Why is that parsley sprig on the Seder plate anyway?
When Ira Steingroot started working at Cody’s Books in 1976, he noticed that the store only had a small collection of Jewish books. Since Passover was approaching, Steingroot decided to stock some more haggadot, the book Jews follow during the Passover Seder.
That casual decision launched Steingroot on a 34-year quest to discover and understand haggadot [...]
Music and food fest to benefit Chile
La Peña Cultural Center on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley will hold a benefit concert this Sunday to help the victims of the recent earthquake in Chile.
A newly formed organization, Mano a Mano Con Chile (Hand in Hand with Chile) — a group made up of local Chileans and north Americans — will host the benefit, which [...]
Steve Jobs, Chekhov and Afghanistan
Artistic Director Tony Taccone today announced the 2010-11 season for the Berkeley Rep, which includes plays about Steve Jobs and Afghanistan, Anton Chekhov’s The Three Sisters, world premieres from Daniel Handler (better known as Lemony Snicket) and Rinne Groff, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ruined by Lynn Nottage, and a new play by Taccone written for Berkeley [...]
How Berkeley can you be on TV?
Parenting prevented me from attending the Parenthood premiere bash held in — oops — Oakland not Berkeley.
So instead of viewing the pilot with local luminaries at the beautifully restored Fox Theater in downtown Oaktown, I watched the start of the series from the comfort of my couch in a modest west Berkeley cottage.
Berkeleyside readers will [...]
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