Richard Brenneman: Shattuck Hotel owner Roy Nee has teamed up with a premier hotel firm to restore the landmark to its former preeminence. With its bigger rooms, luxury suites and a top-of-the-line restaurant, Nee said the hotel can help crystallize a downtown renasissance.
Richard Brenneman: Shattuck Hotel owner Roy Nee has teamed up with a premier hotel firm to restore the landmark to its former preeminence. With its bigger rooms, luxury suites and a top-of-the-line restaurant, Nee said the hotel can help crystallize a downtown renasissance.

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New Shattuck Hotel Owner Seeks Past Splendor By RICHARD BRENNEMAN

Friday July 08, 2005

The Shattuck Hotel, once one of the toniest hotels in Northern California, is headed for a new era of grandeur, thanks to the partnership of owner Roy Nee with Starwood Hotels—considered by many the world’s leading hotelier. -more-



Hazing Incident Earns One-Year Ban For UCB Fraternity By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR

Friday July 08, 2005

In what the University of California is calling “the most severe and comprehensive disciplinary action that UC Berkeley has taken against a fraternity in several years,” the fraternity accused in last spring’s pellet gun hazing attack on a Berkeley street will be disbanded and forced to reorganize. -more-



Medical Center Looks to Texas for Next CEO By MATTHEW ARTZ

Friday July 08, 2005

Seeking to restore stability to Alameda County’s much criticized public hospital system, hospital trustees are negotiating with Dr. Samuel Ross of Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Tex., to become the system’s next CEO. -more-



Shattuck Deli Could Go Dry By MATTHEW ARTZ

Friday July 08, 2005

State regulators are threatening to strip E-Z Stop Deli, the liquor outlet nearest to Berkeley High, of its alcohol license after police cited it for selling beer to minors for the third time since last March. -more-



Pastor Brings New Life to Church By MATTHEW ARTZ

Friday July 08, 2005

Visitors to Edwina Perez’s West Berkeley apartment are greeted by a sign that reads, “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” -more-



Features

Ozzie’s Closes, Search Begins for New Operator By RICHARD BRENNEMAN

Friday July 08, 2005

The latest incarnation of Ozzie’s, the beloved soda fountain at the southwest corner of the College Avenue and Russell Street intersection in the Elmwood, has expired. -more-


Massive Blaze Guts West Berkeley Firm By RICHARD BRENNEMAN

Friday July 08, 2005

July 4 Calm, But Several Other Fires Keep City Firefighters Busy -more-


Hills Neighborhood Steaming Over Fire Station Closures By MATTHEW ARTZ

Friday July 08, 2005

An apparent miscommunication has Fire Chief Debra Pryor in hot water with Berkeley hills residents. -more-


Berkeley Man Arrested In 1997 Rape Case By RICHARD BRENNEMAN

Friday July 08, 2005

Berkeley police revealed Tuesday that they’d arrested 56-year-old Berkeley resident Paul Mitchell four days earlier in connection with the 1997 rape of a 39-year-old Berkeley resident. -more-


Herta Bregoff: From Baden to Berkeley By MIRIAM DUNBAR Special to the Planet

Friday July 08, 2005

Long-time Berkeley resident Herta Bregoff died peacefully in her home on June 26. She was born Herta Maas in 1922 in Karlsruhe, Baden Province, Germany. -more-


Editorial Cartoon By JUSTIN DEFREITAS

Friday July 08, 2005

http://www.jfdefreitas.com/index.php?path=/00_Latest%20Works -more-


Letters to the Editor

Friday July 08, 2005

TERRORISTS, ANARCHISTS -more-


Column: Undercurrents: ‘Run Ron Run’: A New Oakland Rallying Cry By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR

Friday July 08, 2005

The Draft Ron Dellums Movement that is currently sprouting wings and flying all over town has generated the most excitement in an Oakland mayoral race since, well, let’s see...since Jerry Brown announced his plans to run some eight years ago. -more-


Police Blotter By RICHARD BRENNEMAN

Friday July 08, 2005

GTGC -more-


Commentary: The LPO and CEQA: The Hidden Agenda By SHARON HUDSON

Friday July 08, 2005

In my June 28 commentary entitled “Historical Preservation: It Takes A Community,” I wrote that proposed changes to the Landmarks Preservation Ordinance (LPO), due to come before the City Council on July 12, would (among other problems) remove state prot ections that encourage developers to work with the community. The state protections to which I referred are those provided by the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). -more-


Commentary: Pull the Brake to Slow the Train By JILL KORTE

Friday July 08, 2005

Suicide bombers? Anarchists? That’s not my impression. It’s hard to believe that Alan Tobey (Commentary, July 1) and I both attended the same Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) meeting on the evening of June 27. -more-


Why Memín Pinguín is Accepted in Mexico By TED VINCENT Special to the Planet

Friday July 08, 2005

The Mexican comic strip character “el negrito” Memín Pinguín has been put on a series of postage stamps. The character is bug eyed, fat lipped, has enormous ears and looks like a black rubber mask compared with the white people in the cartoon, who are drawn with the realistic precision of the old “Prince Valiant” strip. Compared to the whites in the strip, Penguin is Bugs Buggy in the movie Roger Rabbit. -more-


Kala Art Institute Celebrates 30 Years By PETER SELZSpecial to the Planet

Friday July 08, 2005

One of the living treasures of Berkeley is the Kala Art Institute. Now that this facility is over 30 years old, an exhibition of about 80 works by 71 artists can be seen at the Artists Gallery of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art at Fort Mason acros s the bay. The exhibition stresses works on paper, created in a very wide range of processes, from woodcut and etching to digital photography, and includes sculpture, books and video works. It presents an overview of some of Kala’s multifarious activities. -more-


Election Section

Play Explores Post-9/11 Tensions in Family Portrait By KEN BULLOCK Special to the Planet

Friday July 08, 2005

The Domestic Crusaders, a new play by Bay Area-native Wajahat Ali about the reactions of three generations of a Pakistani-American family in the wake of 9/11, will be staged for three performances only, July 15 and 16, at the Thrust Stage of Berkeley Repertory Theater. -more-


Arts Calendar

Friday July 08, 2005

FRIDAY, JULY 8 -more-


Berkeley This Week

Friday July 08, 2005

FRIDAY, JULY 8 -more-


East Bay Trails Challenge at Points Isabel and Pinole By MARTA YAMAMOTO Special to the Planet

Friday July 08, 2005

The pursuit of fitness in nature continues, as does the Trails Challenge. This month we shift from the redwoods of the East Bay hills to the East Bay shore, exploring Point Isabel and Point Pinole. -more-


Editorial

Editorial: Playing it Cool on a Hot Topic By BECKY O'MALLEY

Friday July 08, 2005

Mr. Tobey, who appears again today to our right, seems not to know that editors, not writers, always write the headlines. Headlines in this and most papers will always be the choice of the editor—we’re happy to clarify that for him. There’s a simple practical reason for this: headlines have to be adjusted to fit into space available. Also, we do try to write headlines to catch readers’ eyes, and “Landmarks Meeting of June 27th” just isn’t a very catchy title. And if Mr. Tobey did predict that a headline writer might combine the epithets “anarchist” and “suicide bomber” into the concept of “terrorist” in a headline, he should have used less, shall we say, “inflammatory” language in the first place. -more-


Back Stories

Opinion

Editorials

Editorial: Playing it Cool on a Hot Topic By BECKY O'MALLEY 07-08-2005

Editorial: Left-Right Alliances: The Next New Thing? By BECKY O'MALLEY 07-05-2005

News

New Shattuck Hotel Owner Seeks Past Splendor By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 07-08-2005

Hazing Incident Earns One-Year Ban For UCB Fraternity By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR 07-08-2005

Medical Center Looks to Texas for Next CEO By MATTHEW ARTZ 07-08-2005

Shattuck Deli Could Go Dry By MATTHEW ARTZ 07-08-2005

Pastor Brings New Life to Church By MATTHEW ARTZ 07-08-2005

Ozzie’s Closes, Search Begins for New Operator By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 07-08-2005

Massive Blaze Guts West Berkeley Firm By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 07-08-2005

Hills Neighborhood Steaming Over Fire Station Closures By MATTHEW ARTZ 07-08-2005

Berkeley Man Arrested In 1997 Rape Case By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 07-08-2005

Herta Bregoff: From Baden to Berkeley By MIRIAM DUNBAR Special to the Planet 07-08-2005

Editorial Cartoon By JUSTIN DEFREITAS 07-08-2005

Letters to the Editor 07-08-2005

Column: Undercurrents: ‘Run Ron Run’: A New Oakland Rallying Cry By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR 07-08-2005

Police Blotter By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 07-08-2005

Commentary: The LPO and CEQA: The Hidden Agenda By SHARON HUDSON 07-08-2005

Commentary: Pull the Brake to Slow the Train By JILL KORTE 07-08-2005

Why Memín Pinguín is Accepted in Mexico By TED VINCENT Special to the Planet 07-08-2005

Kala Art Institute Celebrates 30 Years By PETER SELZSpecial to the Planet 07-08-2005

Play Explores Post-9/11 Tensions in Family Portrait By KEN BULLOCK Special to the Planet 07-08-2005

Arts Calendar 07-08-2005

Berkeley This Week 07-08-2005

East Bay Trails Challenge at Points Isabel and Pinole By MARTA YAMAMOTO Special to the Planet 07-08-2005

Confidential UC-City Settlement Released By MATTHEW ARTZ 07-05-2005

Jefferson Name-Change Debate Continues as New Rules Studied By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR 07-05-2005

Richmond Joins Bid for Ferry Site By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 07-05-2005

Grand Jury Report Slams Medical Center By MATTHEW ARTZ 07-05-2005

Disabled Vets Battle City Over Veterans’ Building Fees By MATTHEW ARTZ 07-05-2005

More Parking Urged for Brower Center By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 07-05-2005

BUSD Compensation Packages Ratified By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR 07-05-2005

Newspapers on Demand From Around the World By MATTHEW ARTZ 07-05-2005

Campus Bay Toxics Advisory Panel To Cover Field Station, Other Sites By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 07-05-2005

AC Transit Unions Approve New Contracts By MATTHEW ARTZ 07-05-2005

Student Director Leaves School Board By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR 07-05-2005

San Francisco Rejects RFID By MATTHEW ARTZ 07-05-2005

Editorial Cartoon By JUSTIN DEFREITAS 07-05-2005

Letters to the Editor 07-05-2005

Column: The Public Eye: Commission Reform: High-Toned Rhetoric, Low-Down Motives By ZELDA BRONSTEIN 07-05-2005

Column: Chaise Longue Hell By SUSAN PARKER 07-05-2005

Commentary: Public Deserves to Hear Reasons for Name-Change Decision By MICHAEL CASSIDY 07-05-2005

Commentary: Let’s Take a Fair Look at Slavery By CARL SHAMES 07-05-2005

Commentary: Drayage Artisans Were Protected Until 1998 By JOHN CURL 07-05-2005

Commentary: Not the Worst Election Process in the World By Kurosh Arianpour 07-05-2005

Humor: Nanotechnology Experiment Surpasses UC Expectations By STILLYN SHAWKE Daily Planet Science Reporter 07-05-2005

Humor: Mr. A and Mr. B: The Long-Lost Twins By HOMAYON 07-05-2005

‘Busker’s Opera’ a Vivid Update of An Old Story By ARIEL 07-05-2005

LaborFest Commemorates 1934 Strike with Films, Music By CASSIE NORTON 07-05-2005

Arts Calendar 07-05-2005

Copper Beeches Grace Berkeley Streetscape By RON SULLIVAN Special to the Planet 07-05-2005

Berkeley This Week 07-05-2005