Berkeley author Ayelet Waldman raised a good question yesterday evening when she, and hundreds of others like her no doubt, was pondering what to have for supper. “Oy. It’s 5 pm, and I have no idea what to make for dinner. ‘Make.’ Ha. I wish someone would start a soup delivery service,” she tweeted. Followed […]
Tracey Taylor
Tracey Taylor is co-founder of Berkeleyside and co-founder and editorial director of Cityside, the nonprofit parent to Berkeleyside and The Oaklandside. Before launching Berkeleyside, Tracey wrote for The New York Times, the Financial Times and the San Francisco Chronicle, among others. Tracey has worked as an editor for business magazines and at the Financial Times in London, as well as a writer and editor for a number of nonprofits.
Posted inCity
Won’t you start tweeting, Mr Bates?
We at Berkeleyside have a penchant for Twitter (follow us at berkeleyside) and appreciate the networking/sharing possibilities the micro-blogging site offers. So we were pleased to see that Berkeley’s mayor Tom Bates jumped on the bandwagon back in April and opened up a Twitter account, which can be found at MayorTomBates (hat-tip: michellequinn). Trouble is Mr Bates […]
Posted inCommunity
Excavating Berkeley’s New Deal past
On Wednesday, Gray Brechin will give a talk entitled “A New Deal for the East Bay: Excavating the Buried Civilization of the Great Depression” in which the historical geographer will look at how New Deal public work agencies put thousands of men and women to work to transform Berkeley and its sister cities within less […]
Posted inArts
Pixar’s Brad Bird in conversation with Jon Carroll
The Berkeley Rep, aglow with the success of its latest smash, American Idiot, and from the general recognition of its artistic prowess, is also holding what promises to be an entertaining series of “conversations” hosted by San Francisco Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll. First up, on November 9, is Pixar‘s Brad Bird (pictured left), the internationally acclaimed director of […]
Posted inHousing & Development
Weekend pursuits: a Maybeck home to savor
If you are into open-housing, are an architecture enthusiast, or are on the look-out for a home to buy, I would recommend a visit to 2960 Linden Avenue in Berkeley’s Elmwood neighborhood this Sunday. The house was designed by noted Bay Area architect Bernard Maybeck in 1902 for a site on Regent Street and moved, […]
Posted inArts, Business
Two Berkeley businesses honored
Two Berkeley businesses have won 2009 Women-Owned Business of the Year Awards in the Alameda County category. They are Mrs. Dalloway’s Literary & Garden Arts bookstore, founded by Marion Abbott and Ann Layhe (pictured above), and BioFuel Oasis, run by Novella Carpenter, Margaret Farrow, Ace Anderson, Melissa Hardy and Jennifer Radtke. The awards are sponsored […]
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Mr Chabon is on the road
Photo: www.michaelchabon.com Berkeley author Michael Chabon has just embarked on one of those “If it’s Tuesday it must be Pittsburgh” type book tours that make you exhausted just reading about them. He is promoting his newly published collection of essays “Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father and Son” and the media […]
Posted inCity
City annual report details revenue slide
The City of Berkeley’s 2009 Annual Report is now online and will be delivered to 60,000 residents and businesses this week. There’s nothing startling in the report, but the extent of economic pressures on the city budget are clear. Property transfer tax declined by a third, as shown in the chart above. The approved city […]
Posted inNature
Berkeley: 100% chance of rain
Photo: www.noaa.gov That’s the weather map right there for Berkeley right now. Today: Rain. High near 62. Windy, with a south wind between 36 and 44 mph, with gusts as high as 55 mph.
Posted inSchools
UC building moves forward
Graphic: www.cp.berkeley.edu UC will choose a contractor this week to build the $133 million Helios Energy Research Center, a five-story, 112,800-square-foot building adjacent to the central campus in downtown, according to the CoStar group newsletter. The Helios Energy center will house the Energy Biosciences Institute and the UC Berkeley Bioengineering Program, both of which are conducting […]
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Berkeley boy at helm of new bookstore
Books Inc opened its Berkeley store at 1760 Fourth Street today. The doors opened early to welcome the crowd that had gathered outside eager to experience a new book store after witnessing so many go the other way in recent years. Co-owner and president Michael Tucker told Carolyn Said at the Chronicle: “I’m a Berkeley […]