On Saturday night, the Live Oak Theatre will host a stand-up comedy night, sponsored by Berkeley’s recreation department. Live Oak Laughs (LOL, get it?) will feature Andrew Norelli (above), a fixture on the comedy club scene, who had a slot on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson last spring. Other comedians include Jason Armenio, [...]
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Eat Real Lit Fest features Berkeley scribes
The second annual Eat Real Festival, a three-day showcase of the best of the Bay Area’s street food carts, local growers, artisan beer and wine purveyors, cheese makers, urban homesteaders, and other local food crafters kicks off tomorrow at Jack London Square in downtown Oakland. The event that promises to “Put the Food Back in [...]
Watch those octopi fly through the air
Even though the Berkeley Kite Festival was earlier this month and Berkeleyside wrote about the world record set by putting the most octopi kites in the air (22), I couldn’t resist putting up this video (which we didn’t title — Berkeleyside knows how to spell Berkeley). It shows those kites in action and they are [...]
Music for everyone at Downtown Berkeley MusicFest
The first man to play the first show at Freight & Salvage in 1968 will be the kickoff headliner event for the Downtown Berkeley MusicFest, a nine-day extravaganza of music. Phil Marsh, described as a “folk-to-country-to-blues troubadour” will reunite with the Energy Crisis band for a performance Friday August 20 at 8 pm the newly-remodeled [...]
Biotech Academy students get hands-on education
The woman had been missing for six months, with no clue to her whereabouts. Now police had found her car, and it was covered with what looked like blood splatters, blood trails, and a bullet hole. William Clark and Evanney Salisi went to work analyzing the clues. They looked at the pattern of the blood [...]
Protests greet John Yoo on first day of classes
Cindy Sheehan, the anti-war activist, and dozens of protestors from Code Pink, The World Can’t Wait, the Boalt Alliance to Abolish Torture and other groups marched through Berkeley Law School today to protest John Yoo’s position as a member of the faculty. After holding a brief press conference outside the law school, the group marched [...]
Phish delights fans at the Greek Theater
More than 8,500 people streamed into the Greek Theater on Thursday for the first of Phish’s three concerts. When the shows were announced, tickets sold out in about five minutes. They originally cost $50 but are in such high demand now that some are selling on the secondary market for $750. It looks like it [...]
World record set at Berkeley Kite Festival
By Elinor Holland Participants in the Berkeley Kite Festival set a new world record Saturday when they flew the most giant octopus kites together at one time. The Octopile joined forces with the Gomberg Kite Production to fly 22 octopus kites. The previous record had been 20 kites. The octopus kites are massive and heavy [...]
“Guerrilla” Shakespeare in John Hinkel Park
A group of UCLA acting students, who have been living communally in Berkeley for the summer, will stage a “guerrilla” performance of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream this weekend at the amphitheater in John Hinkel Park. The group of 24 actors and crew are hoping to bring Shakespeare back to its roots by performing for [...]
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