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Mayor’s Night Out Focuses Attention on Homeless Plight

By JOHN GELUARDI
Friday April 25, 2003
Walking along a bustling section of Telegraph Avenue, Mayor Tom Bates, clad in beat-up sneakers and a pair of baggy, frayed blue jeans, intently watched the ground from beneath the brim of a cap pulled low over his forehead. -more-

Berkeley This Week

Friday April 25, 2003
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Jones Acts Seven Roles In Gripping Performance

By BETSY M. HUNTON Special to the Planet
Friday April 25, 2003
The only question unanswered at the end of “Surface Transit,” Sarah Jones’ one-woman show at Berkeley Repertory’s Thrust Stage, is “What’s that title all about?” Simple enough: It refers to the bus rides during which this New Yorker found sources for several of the characters she portrays so brilliantly. -more-

Arts Calendar

Friday April 25, 2003
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Letters to the Editor

Friday April 25, 2003
DEEPEN COVERAGE -more-

Creative Re-Use Workers PushTo Form Union

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG
Friday April 25, 2003
Employees of the East Bay Depot for Creative Re-Use voted unanimously to unionize this week, capping a year of turmoil at one of the area’s most storied nonprofit organizations. -more-

Symphony Premiere

By BEN FRANDZEL Special to the Planet
Friday April 25, 2003
With a world-class, world-hopping conductor at its helm in Kent Nagano, the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra enjoys a connection to the global music community that is rare for an orchestra of its size. -more-

Improved Access, But Problems Linger

By CAROL DENNEY
Friday April 25, 2003
When the Berkeley Folk Festival takes place in a week or so, much will be made of the accessibility of the venue, a great improvement on the locations of the past. Much will be made of the sign language interpreters assigned to translate the main stage shows. People will marvel, at least privately, at finally having wheelchair-accessible bathrooms and an accessible stage. -more-

West Berkeley Struggles To Maintain Character

By JOHN GELUARDI
Friday April 25, 2003
The struggle to maintain a delicate balance between arts and crafts, blue collar jobs and office development in West Berkeley has entered another chapter in its 19-year saga. -more-

Chronicle Crosses Line By Altering Ethics Policy

By HENRY NORR
Friday April 25, 2003
Almost four weeks after suspending me for participating in an antiwar demonstration, the San Francisco Chronicle this week officially fired me from my job as a technology reporter and columnist. I consider this punishment a violation of my rights as a citizen and as an employee, and I intend to fight it with all the means available to me. -more-

Planning Director Said to Leave

Staff
Friday April 25, 2003
Rumors that Planning Director Carol Barrett has resigned her post swirled around City Hall Thursday. -more-

Presidential Hopeful Kucinich Condemns Bush for Violence

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG
Friday April 25, 2003
U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Cleveland), one of nine Democratic candidates for president, blasted the Bush Administration over the war in Iraq and insisted that his shoestring candidacy has a chance during a UC Berkeley appearance Wednesday. -more-

UnderCurrents

From J. Douglas Allen-Taylor
Friday April 25, 2003

Library Bristles At Patriot Act

By AL WINSLOW Special to the Planet
Friday April 25, 2003

A Diary of Sleeping Bags and Outhouses

By AL WINSLOW Special to the Planet
Friday April 25, 2003

Passion for Italy Infuses Food at Venezia

By PATTI DACEY Special to the Planet
Friday April 25, 2003

School officials to leave

—David Scharfenberg
Friday April 25, 2003

Police Blotter

By JOHN GELUARDI
Friday April 25, 2003

View from Abroad: Europe Takes On An American War

By MICHAEL KATZ Daily Planet Foreign Service
Friday April 25, 2003

Erik Olson GENE BYRON MABERY, 23, a homeless man, chats with Mayor Tom Bates in People’s Park.
Erik Olson GENE BYRON MABERY, 23, a homeless man, chats with Mayor Tom Bates in People’s Park.

Editorials

Schools to Revamp Independent Study

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG
Friday April 25, 2003
The Berkeley Unified School District, in a cost-cutting move, is planning a major overhaul of its Independent Study program next year — shrinking year-long courses to a semester and cutting teacher-student time up to 50 percent. -more-

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