News

Property Owners Feud Over Ashby Apartment Development

By Richard Brenneman
Friday April 07, 2006
Day-glo netting mounted atop galvanized steel pipes along the property line separating a popular Ashby Avenue discount gas station from an unfinished apartment building proves yet again that good fences don’t make good neighbors. -more-

BUSD Lays Off 57 Educational Aides

By Suzanne La Barre
Friday April 07, 2006
After almost 20 years in education, Hosanna Kitzenberger leaves her job as a reading resource specialist—a position she says has brought her great joy—with a tinge of bitterness. -more-

Mystery House in Ownership Fight

By Riya Bhattacharjee
Friday April 07, 2006
Ward Street: it’s 6 in the evening, and the roads are sepia tinted, the pavement is wearing a jaded look. It looks like your everyday neighborhood—until you come across house number 2122. -more-

Foster Farms Threatens Litigation Against East Bay Animal Advocates

By Suzanne La Barre
Friday April 07, 2006
A website dedicated to exposing the supposed mistreatment of Foster Farms’ chickens is under attack for allegedly infringing on intellectual property and defaming the company’s name. -more-

UCB Custodians Join Students at Poetry Event

By Riya Bhattacharjee
Friday April 07, 2006
As the words “Beauty is truth, truth beauty—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know” from Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn” echoded through the UC Berkeley Wada Tower multipurpose room on Wednesday evening, you could see five excited pair of eyes in the last couple of rows. -more-

District: Berkeley School Libraries Growing Strong

By Suzanne La Barre
Friday April 07, 2006

Rain Drains Cause Concern All Over Berkeley

By Judith Scherr
Friday April 07, 2006

Berkeley Bowl Praised, Feared

By Judith Scherr
Friday April 07, 2006

Creeks Task Force Reports

By Judith Scherr
Friday April 07, 2006

Peralta Officials Have Hope for New Bond

By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor
Friday April 07, 2006

Albany Council Approves Waterfront Ballot Measure

By Richard Brenneman
Friday April 07, 2006

Library Board Schedules Meeting For Saturday

Friday April 07, 2006

A Study in Contradictions: Gary Hart Comes to Berkeley

By Richard Brenneman
Friday April 07, 2006

Police Blotter

By Richard Brenneman
Friday April 07, 2006

Richard Brenneman: Shahzad Khan, left, has erected a fence of netting and parked a truck against the wall of the new apartment building being built by Athan Magannas, right, at 2700 Ashby Ave. Khan refuses to allow workers on his gas station at 3000 Shattuck Avenue to apply stucco to the new building..
Richard Brenneman: Shahzad Khan, left, has erected a fence of netting and parked a truck against the wall of the new apartment building being built by Athan Magannas, right, at 2700 Ashby Ave. Khan refuses to allow workers on his gas station at 3000 Shattuck Avenue to apply stucco to the new building..

Editorials

Editorial: There Were Always Uncles at Christmas

By Becky O’Malley
Friday April 07, 2006
In the olden days, back around 1960, I first heard Dylan Thomas’s recording of “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” on one of the Pacifica stations, in the period when they were not afraid to celebrate sectarian holidays like Christmas. -more-

Reader Commentaries

Letters to the Editor

Friday April 07, 2006

Commentary: Why I’m Running For Mayor

By Zelda Bronstein
Friday April 07, 2006

Commentary: Troops Support Iraq Withdrawal

By Kenneth J. Thiesen
Friday April 07, 2006

Commentary: Hamas Plans to Destroy Israel

by John Gertz
Friday April 07, 2006

Columnists

Column: The Public Eye: A Pocket Guide to Supporting Democrats for Congress

By Bob Burnett
Friday April 07, 2006

Column: Undercurrents: Oakland Fails to Deal with Violence Problems

By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor
Friday April 07, 2006

California’s Natural Bounty at the Oakland Museum

By Marta Yamamoto Special to the Planet
Friday April 07, 2006

East Bay Then and Now: Architect Seth Paris Babson Gets No Respect In Berkeley

By Daniella Thompson
Friday April 07, 2006

About the House: Is a Home Warranty Right for You?

By Matt Cantor
Friday April 07, 2006

Garden Variety: It Doesn’t Get Much Better Than Your Corner Nursery

By Ron Sullivan
Friday April 07, 2006

Arts & Entertainment

Arts Calendar

Friday April 07, 2006

Moving Pictures: Chasing Demons: The Life and Art of Daniel Johnston

By Justin DeFreitas
Friday April 07, 2006

Arts: Noel Coward’s ‘Relative Values’ at Masquers Playhouse

By Ken Bullock Special to the Planet
Friday April 07, 2006

Arts: Michael Palmer and Douglas Blazek Read at Moe’s

By Ken Bullock Special to the Planet
Friday April 07, 2006

Events Calendar

Berkeley This Week

Friday April 07, 2006