The Week

Contributed Photo/BAM Exhibit
          PANTHERS demonstrate in Oakland.
Contributed Photo/BAM Exhibit PANTHERS demonstrate in Oakland.
 

News

Photo Show Reframes Black Panther Image

By JOHN GELUARDI
Tuesday April 15, 2003

“We are challenging the memory that Black Panthers were brutal, the memory that they were violent, and the memory that they were criminal,” said UC Berkeley professor Percy Hintzen at a lecture Sunday. -more-


‘Vampires’ Has Bite At Under Ground

By BETSY M. HUNTON
Tuesday April 15, 2003

Frank Rich, the longtime New York Times drama critic, couldn’t seem to find anything good to say about Harry Kondoleon’s “The Vampires” when it appeared 14 years ago in New York. Judging by the production of Shotgun Players that opened Saturday night at La Val’s Subterranean, it looks as if Rich was just having a bad night. -more-


Letters to the Editor

Tuesday April 15, 2003

TAX REFUND -more-


Pioneer Doyle Leaves Legacy Downtown

By SUSAN CERNY
Tuesday April 15, 2003

Among Berkeley’s few remaining original downtown residences is the John M. Doyle House, located at 2008 University Avenue. It was built as a duplex with a workshop in 1890; the storefront facade was added in 1947, but the Victorian house has remained in the rear. -more-


Berkeley This Week

Tuesday April 15, 2003

Tuesday April 15, 2003

TUESDAY, APRIL 15


Which Way to Cesar Chavez?

By JOHN GELUARDI
Tuesday April 15, 2003

City Council’s effort to rename a major Berkeley street in honor of labor leader Cesar Chavez may be headed for a bump in the road. -more-


Shotgun Founder Dooley Aims Play 'In Your Face'

By FRED DODSWORTH
Tuesday April 15, 2003

Pinball machines, beer and pizza stand guard while below, in the dungeon of La Val’s Pizza Parlor on Euclid Avenue, Berkeley’s 10-year-old phenomenon, The Shotgun Players, launch their latest theatrical offering: Harry Kondoleon’s “The Vampires.” -more-


Visitor to UC Campus Denounces 'Vulgar' Behavior of Protesters

Henry Hart
Tuesday April 15, 2003

The following letter was sent to Chancellor Robert Berdahl in response to a protest held April 9 at UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza: -more-


Scholars Decry Iraqi Looting

By RICHARD BRENNEMAN
Tuesday April 15, 2003

As the world watched, spellbound, the spectacle of massive looting in the cities of Iraq, the tragedy proved particularly wrenching for those whose lives have been devoted to the study of the ancient land considered the cradle of Western culture. Hardest to bear were scenes of looting at Baghdad’s Iraqi National Museum, until Friday home to one of the world’s greatest collections of antiquities. -more-


Colin Powell Not Lawrence of Arabia

By SAGARIKA GHOSE
Tuesday April 15, 2003

Nothing could be more indicative of America’s innocence abroad than the outraged statement by one of the officers in Operation Iraqi Freedom. -more-


Arts Calendar

Tuesday April 15, 2003

TUESDAY, APRIL 15 -more-


Decomposed Bodies Wash Up on Bay Shore

By JOHN GELUARDI
Tuesday April 15, 2003

A woman walking her dog along the Point Isabel Shoreline in Richmond Monday discovered the decomposed body of a woman at water’s edge, about a mile from where the body of a full-term male fetus was found the day before. -more-


Council Must Account For Benvenue Housing Policy

By SHARON HUDSON
Tuesday April 15, 2003

On April 18, I and other stunned neighbors from the Benvenue and Willard neighborhoods watched in dismay as eight members of City Council voted swiftly and mercilessly to destroy a fine old apartment building at 2500 Benvenue Ave. at Dwight Way. This building is just one part of the expansion plans of the American Baptist Seminary of the West. However, much to the community’s relief, the council also voted 6-2-1 to require an Environmental Impact Report (ERI) for another part of the project, a proposed massive new building slated to replace two historic homes. The purpose of the entire project is in question, since the seminary has only 40 full-time students and currently rents half its space to UC Extension. -more-


District Plays Musical Chairs With School, Office Buildings

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG
Tuesday April 15, 2003

It’s a classic switcheroo — a four-way building swap that is leaving West Berkeley residents a little dizzy. -more-


Berkeley Briefs

Tuesday April 15, 2003

BART considers fare hike -more-


Banners Celebrate UC’s Nobel Laureates

John Geluardi
Tuesday April 15, 2003

Dozens of new banners honoring UC Berkeley’s 18 Nobel Laureates were installed along Telegraph Avenue last week to promote the area as a center for ideas. -more-


Berkeley This Week

Tuesday April 15, 2003

Bates Gets Mixed Reviews In New Role as Mayor

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG
Friday April 11, 2003

For the first time in recent memory, Berkeley has a professional politician in the mayor’s office — a schmoozer, a comedian, a dealmaker, a diplomat. He is a 20-year veteran of the state Assembly who, after terming out in 1996, fought like hell to overturn the law that pushed him out of office. -more-


Unscripted: Wiseman Retrospective Spans

ERIC HSU
Friday April 11, 2003

For those accustomed to being spoon-fed our messages at the movies the documentary films of Frederick Wiseman can be a little hard to swallow. -more-


BERKELEY THIS WEEK

Staff
Friday April 11, 2003

FRIDAY, APRIL 11 -more-


Letters to the Editor

Friday April 11, 2003

IN MY THOUGHTS -more-


Budget Cuts: Bad to Worse

By JOHN GELUARDI
Friday April 11, 2003

City Council previewed four budget-cutting proposals Tuesday that could result in higher parking fines, massive cuts to city services and the loss of over 100 city jobs. -more-


Arts Calendar

Friday April 11, 2003

FRIDAY, APRIL 11 -more-


Albany Advocates Say Town’s

SHERMAN LIM and JAMES CARTER
Friday April 11, 2003

In his piece “Big Box Targets City” (Daily Planet, April 4-7), John Geluardi raises a number of issues regarding the construction of a Target Store on Eastshore Highway in Albany. -more-


Adams Takes Pulitzer With Reservations

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG
Friday April 11, 2003

Berkeley composer John Adams won the Pulitzer Prize in music this week for his homage to the Sept. 11 victims, “On the Transmigration of Souls,” but his elation was tempered by criticism of the award. -more-


Eleven Ways to Remove Rudeness

BARBARA GILBERT
Friday April 11, 2003

I have lived in Berkeley for 34 years and have been actively involved in civic life for the past six. I have been often dismayed and occasionally sickened by the low, mean level at which many civic participants operate, and I know that this grim atmosphere keeps many intelligent and interested residents away from the civic table. -more-


Comfort Meals, Low Prices

PATTI DACEY
Friday April 11, 2003

I report this more in sorrow than in anger, but I have been flipped off three times in the past couple of weeks by middle-aged women driving expensive vehicles. -more-


Berkeley This Week

Friday April 11, 2003

FRIDAY, APRIL 11 -more-


Of Speedy’s Downfall

COUNTRY JOE McDONALD
Friday April 11, 2003

The other day my wife brought home a baby bunny. She had stopped at the pet store on the way home from work and picked it out from a bunch of baby bunnies. There is nothing like a baby bunny. They are perhaps the cutest thing in the world. -more-


Hearing Set for Port Violence

—Angela Rowen
Friday April 11, 2003

Both the Oakland Police Department and the demonstrators who clashed with them at Monday’s anti-war protest will have a chance to testify at a hearing later this month. The public hearing will be held before the Public Safety Committee on April 29 at 3 p.m. in Oakland’s City Hall. -more-


Apply Patience to Battle Against Homelessness

SONJA FITZ
Friday April 11, 2003

I work for a Berkeley-based nonprofit organization that offers comprehensive services to help homeless people gain independence. I have worked here for 17 years, and watched as attention to the war on poverty ebbed and flowed as public priorities changed. We are seemingly no closer to a solution than when I first arrived. Or are we? -more-


Health Official Warns New Disease Spreading

By FRED DODSWORTH Special to the Planet
Friday April 11, 2003

A UC Berkeley ceremony honoring Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control, as “Alumna of the Year” became an impromptu press conference last week on the mysterious disease SARS, which stands for severe acute respiratory disease. -more-


City Council Delays Five-Story Project

By JOHN GELUARDI
Friday April 11, 2003

City Council handed a partial victory to neighborhood opponents of an American Baptist Seminary of the West proposal to demolish two century-old cottages to make way for a five-story building. -more-


The Scared One

From Susan Parker
Friday April 11, 2003

“I’m scared,” she said as she stood on the sharp edge of the shallow end of Willard Pool in Berkeley. -more-


Police Blotter

By JOHN GELUARDI
Friday April 11, 2003

Elderly woman robbed -more-


Berkeley Briefs

Thursday May 12, 2005 - 08:55:00 PM

Students Protest for Palestine -more-


Unscripted: Wiseman Retrospective Spans Thirty-Five-Year Career in Documentaries

By ERIC HSU Special to the Planet
Friday April 11, 2003

For those accustomed to being spoon-fed our messages at the movies the documentary films of Frederick Wiseman can be a little hard to swallow. -more-


Opinion

Editorials

Race Collides With History In Effort to Rename School

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG
Tuesday April 15, 2003

A group of teachers and parents at Jefferson Elementary School are pushing to rename the building, citing concerns with Thomas Jefferson’s slaveholding past. But critics, including some parents, call the move shortsighted. -more-


John Henry Mitchell Fought to Calm Traffic in Intersection Where He Died

By PAUL KILDUFF Special to the Planet
Friday April 11, 2003

ohn Henry Mitchell, always concerned about the well-being of others, wrote several letters to the city pleading for a stop sign at the busy Shattuck Avenue corner near his home, the very intersection where he was killed by a car in January. -more-