Berkeley-El Cerrito Pet of the Week: Meet Estrella and Nigel
Source: The Berkeley Voice
Berkeley :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-19 14:44:16 -0700 | political-news
Font Resize Contra Costa Times Berkeley East Bay Humane Society Cassandra was adopted from us 11 years ago and recently returned after her family had to move and couldn't take her with them. This 12-year-old is a sweet and gentle...
Berkeley police log: Pants among belongings taken from pedestrian in street robbery
Source: The Berkeley Voice
Berkeley :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-19 14:44:16 -0700 | political-news
A business was burglarized in the 3000 block of Ashby Avenue. Vehicles were stolen in the 1600 block of Addison Street; the 2900 block of Dohr Street; the 2400 block of Hillside Avenue; and the 1500 block of Stannage Avenue...Items...
UCLA Professor Mark Kleiman — Washington's Weed Consultant — Speaks in Oakland
Source: East Bay Express
Berkeley :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-19 14:31:42 -0700 | political-news
Public Policy Mark Kleiman who is helping the state of Washington set up its legal cannabis industry will speak Wednesday. June 26 at the Valley Center for the Performing Arts, 3500 Mountain Blvd, Oakland as part of Councilmember Libby Schaaf's...
What Montanans Hear About Medical Marijuana
Source: East Bay Express
Berkeley :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-17 10:40:18 -0700 | entertainment-news
Good morning, how about some modern reefer madness from flyover country? "The average 'medical' marijuana user is a 32-year-old white male with a history of alcohol, cocaine and meth use, but NO history of a life-threatening illness," wrote a rehab...
News Analysis: Facebook Made Me Do It
Source: International Herald Tribune
Berkeley :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-15 13:50:35 -0700 | technology-news
It is one way to understand why people upload things that make us gasp, from my friends playful bare-all portrait to more sinister, illegal activities, like the defacing of parks and monuments with graffiti and other acts of outright vandalism....
Castles in the Sky: Anime Season Starts This Sunday at PFA
Source: KQED
Berkeley :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-15 07:32:22 -0700 | entertainment-news
A Of course we don't want our kids to go out and get bitten by wild animals, but there's something about that early domestication scene in 1984's Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind , where the eponymous heroine stays...
Berkeley: Man assaulted with 4-foot chrome pole in People's Park
Source: The Berkeley Voice
Berkeley :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-14 18:31:47 -0700 | political-news
An altercation between two transients left one man with head and arm wounds at People's Park Thursday morning, according to police. At 10:17 a.m., a University of California police officer patrolling the area called for backup as he watched a...
UC Berkeley announces new design institute in its College of Engineering
Source: Contra Costa Times
Berkeley :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-14 17:37:05 -0700 | technology-news
UC Berkeley's College of Engineering will open a new institute for design innovation with a $20 million donation from the Paul and Stacy Jacobs Foundation. The news came Thursday at the Clinton Global Initiative America conference in Chicago. The foundation's...
California awards $18 million to build hydrogen fueling stations
Source: Los Angeles Times
Berkeley :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-14 12:36:43 -0700 | green-news
Projects supporting California's hydrogen fuel cell infrastructure will see a hefty boost thanks to more than $18 million in grant funding, the state's Energy Commission announced this week. The agency's dollars will go toward installing, or in some cases upgrading,...
Friday Must Reads: Bay Bridge Contractor to Get Big Bonus if Span Opens on Time; Alameda County ...
Source: East Bay Express
Berkeley :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-14 16:52:26 -0700 | political-news
American Bridge/Fluor Enterprises, the contractor building the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge, stands to receive a $20 million bonus if the bridge opens on time on Labor Day, the CoCo Times reports. The huge incentive is worrying some...
Torah | ‘Irrational' rituals take on meaning if motives are pure
Source: j.
Berkeley :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-13 18:02:27 -0700 | your-story
Irrational rituals take on meaning if motives are pure by rabbi yoel kahn Chukat Numbers 19:122:1 Judges 11:133 This week's portion, Chukat, details what surely is one of the most inscrutable and strange rituals of biblical religion. Numbers 19 is...
Theater review: "Dust Storm" an assured start to new Theatre Esprit Asia theater company
Source: Denver Post
Berkeley :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-13 15:51:14 -0700 | entertainment-news
Font Resize With "Dust Storm," Theatre Esprit Asia gets its inaugural gambit just right, delivering a work that is modest and ambitious, spare and emotionally textured. A chair, a bench, a stool and a screen make up the minimal set...
Daniel Ellsberg on PRISM: We're "a Turnkey Away from Tyranny"
Source: East Bay Express
Berkeley :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-13 10:03:50 -0700 | political-news
Daniel Ellsberg and a panel of legal and political experts warned an overflowing crowd at St. John's Church in Berkeley on Tuesday night that American civil liberties are in jeopardy. The consensus of the ( well-timed ) panel which, in...
Thursday Must Reads: Oakland Budget Battles Heat Up; Mayor Quan's Chief of Staff Appointed to School ...
Source: East Bay Express
Berkeley :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-13 07:50:22 -0700 | political-news
The Oakland City Council will consider competing budget proposals at a hearing today at City Hall that will ultimately determine whether the city will further civilianize its police force or provide raises to non-sworn employees. A plan authored by Council...
‘How Richard Pryor Became Richard Pryor': an interview wit' author Cecil Brown
Source: San Francisco Bay View
Berkeley :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-13 00:45:06 -0700 | entertainment-news
Popular Tags Archives Feeds by The Minister of Information JR Although Richard Pryor is perhaps the most celebrated comedian in the history of the United States, few people know anything significant about his life, particularly the time period that took...
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