News

Pagodas? on Telegraph?

By Richard Brenneman
Tuesday August 14, 2007
Eclectic Building Plan Certain to Stir Up Plenty of Free Speech -more-

Dynes to Leave Top UC Post, Replacement Search Begins

By Richard Brenneman
Tuesday August 14, 2007
University of California President and UC Berkeley Physics Professor Robert Dynes announced his resignation Monday as head of the nation’s leading public university system. -more-

Coalition Protests Museum Changes

By Judith Scherr
Tuesday August 14, 2007
Reorganization Hurts Native American Repatriation Efforts, Critics Say -more-

UC Students Tapped for City Commissions

By Riya Bhattacharjee
Tuesday August 14, 2007
There’s a new kind of campaign at Berkeley City Hall. It aims to tap Berkeley’s best and brightest young minds to solve problems in the city. -more-

Locked-Out Workers Picket West Berkeley Store

By Judith Scherr
Tuesday August 14, 2007
Charges and countercharges are flying between workers locked out by the owners of West Berkeley’s Metro Lighting. -more-

Media News Ends Newsroom Union’s Status

By Richard Brenneman
Tuesday August 14, 2007

Oakland School Board Considers Censure Resolution Against Dobbins

By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor
Tuesday August 14, 2007

Nelson Mandela’s Daughter to Speak at Event Commemorating Tookie Williams

By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor
Tuesday August 14, 2007

Zoning Board Approves Fidelity Bank Building Plan

By Riya Bhattacharjee
Tuesday August 14, 2007

The Dangers of Reporting on Your Hometown

By Abi Wright, New America Media
Tuesday August 14, 2007

A Bounty of Rosy, Crunchy Fruits

By Shirley Barker, Special to the Planet
Tuesday August 14, 2007

Healty Living: Staving Off Alzheimer’s Through Improvisation

By Mary Barrett
Tuesday August 14, 2007

Ken Sarachan’s vision for a key corner of Telegraph Avenue features a rooftop park for public events over a commercial building that also includes a Free Speech Museum filled with memorabilia from Berkeley’s radical past. The rooftop courtyard would open onto Haste Street, framed on either side by pagoda-like towers filled with tenant-configured apartments.
Ken Sarachan’s vision for a key corner of Telegraph Avenue features a rooftop park for public events over a commercial building that also includes a Free Speech Museum filled with memorabilia from Berkeley’s radical past. The rooftop courtyard would open onto Haste Street, framed on either side by pagoda-like towers filled with tenant-configured apartments.

Editorials

Editorial: Cynicism Damages Tenant Cause

By Becky O'Malley
Tuesday August 14, 2007
There’s been a lot of hoo-hah lately, including some in these pages, about the recent airing in the Matier-Ross gossip column of the old rumor that Berkeley Rent Control Board member Chris Kavanagh is seldom seen in the Dwight Way apartment which he rents, and that in fact he might really “live” in a charming cottage in Rockridge, just over the border in Oakland. Why the ironic quotes around “live”? -more-

Reader Commentaries

Letters to the Editor

Tuesday August 14, 2007

Commentary: Psychologists Protest Professional Association Over Ethics

By Ruth Fallenbaum
Tuesday August 14, 2007

Commentary: Criticisms of BRT Workshop Are Unfair

By Fran Haselsteiner
Tuesday August 14, 2007

Commentary: Local Communities Are Not Dumping Grounds

By Keith Carson
Tuesday August 14, 2007

Commentary: Your Black Muslim Bakery (Or What’s Left Of It)

By David Nebenzahl
Tuesday August 14, 2007

Commentary: Independence for Kosovo? Why?

By Fred E. Foldvary
Tuesday August 14, 2007

Commentary: Bus Rapid Transit Debate — Any Takers?

By Doug Buckwald
Tuesday August 14, 2007

Columnists

Wild Neighbors: Developers Strike Back: Arrowhead Marsh at Risk Again

By Joe Eaton
Tuesday August 14, 2007

Arts & Entertainment

Arts Calendar

Tuesday August 14, 2007

The Theater: Calshakes Stages ‘The Triumph of Love’

By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Tuesday August 14, 2007

The Theater: SF Theater Group Brings Noir Classic to the Stage

By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Tuesday August 14, 2007

Events Calendar

Berkeley This Week

Tuesday August 14, 2007