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‘The Lady’s Not for Burning’ closes theater’s season
Staged Hereafter – Berkeley’s newest theater company to complete a full season of plays – is closing out its first year at South Berkeley Community Church with a very strong grassroots production of English playwright Christopher Fry’s dark, fascinating 1948 philosophical comedy “The Lady’s Not for Burning.” -more-
Nonprofit to lead city-wide initiatives
To get to the new office of the Berkeley Alliance, make your way to the second floor of the Berkeley Adult School, turn right at the old computer key boards and monitors – piled up against a wall like so many dislodged boulders at the base of a cliff – and then right again, into the windowless, L-shaped room at the end of the hallway. -more-
Coughlin adds to Cal’s medal count at Worlds
FUKOUKA, JAPAN - On the final day of the 2001 World Swimming Championships in Fukouka, Japan, Cal’s Natalie Coughlin had an impressive lead-off butterfly leg on the United State’s 400-meter medley relay that placed second to Australia. -more-
Hundreds rally to protest new youth jail
OAKLAND – Hundreds of teens, artists and social activists gathered in Frank Ogawa Plaza Saturday to protest Alameda County’s plan to replace the 299-bed juvenile detention facility in San Leandro with a 450-bed facility in Dublin. -more-
Berkeley lab retracts discovery of elements
Physicists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are retracting a 1999 claim of having discovered two “superheavy” elements in a fusion of lead and krypton. -more-
Berkeley man found shot to death in yard
RICHMOND – Police say a 43-year-old Berkeley man was shot dead in the back yard of a Richmond apartment complex yesterday afternoon. -more-