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Flash: Berkeley Mayor Bates is Running--Again

Thursday February 02, 2012 - 10:20:00 PM

With no fanfare, Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates,73, slipped in under the radar on Monday and filed a form kicking off his campaign to become a candidate for a fourth term--the "Campaign Intention Statement" of the "Re-Elect Mayor Tom Bates Committee."

He's already served one two-year and two four-year terms, so if he wins another four-year term, he'll have been mayor of Berkeley for a total of fourteen years.

His wife Loni Hancock, now running for yet another term as State Senator from the district which includes Berkeley, preceded him in the Berkeley mayor's office. This time the Mayor's race will be decided by ranked choice voting, but as yet no other candidates have appeared to be willing to challenge the formidable power of the well-oiled Bates-Hancock apparatus, which last week knocked Oakland Assemblymember Sandre Swanson out of the race for the Senate seat. -more-


Press Release: Berkeley Police Confirm Skateboarder's Death

From Sgt. Mary C. Kusmiss S-6 BPD Public Information Officer
Wednesday February 01, 2012 - 10:14:00 PM

The City of Berkeley Police Department (BPD) has received word from the Alameda County Coroner’s Office that the 18 year old skateboarder passed away at 4:10 p.m. The young man, Tyler DeMartini was a Berkeley resident. Members of BPD extend their condolences to the DeMartini family. -more-


Updated: Death of Berkeley Skateboarder Reported

By Bay City News and Planet
Wednesday February 01, 2012 - 05:43:00 PM

The Patch website is reporting that Tyler De Martini, the 18-year-old Berkeley skateboarder who was struck by a car while skateboarding down Marin in Berkeley Monday evening, died this afternoon. -more-


Berkeley Council Declares House a Public Nuisance

Tuesday January 31, 2012 - 09:58:00 PM

The Berkeley City Council, in a vote where several councilmembers chose to abstain, passed a resolution declaring a drastically expanded house at 2133 Parker a public nuisance. -more-


Press Release: City Council Stands With Berkeley Tibetan American Community

From:Tenzin Paldron (PhD Student, UC Berkeley Department of Rhetoric) and Noah Sochet (Berkeley Peace and : 51Justice Commissioner)
Tuesday January 31, 2012 - 09:38:00 PM

The City Council of the City of Berkeley today unanimously passed a resolution recognizing the immeasurable sacrifice of Tibetan monks and nuns who have self-immolated in protest of Chinese political suppression. The resolution calls on the Obama Administration to insist that China immediately end excessive security measures on Tibetan monasteries and lay communities in the region, and allow members of the media and international independent fact-finding delegations to visit the affected Tibetan-inhabited areas in Western China and the Tibetan Autonomous Region. -more-


Berkeley City Council Will Study Not Renewing Wells Fargo Contract

Tuesday January 31, 2012 - 08:00:00 PM

The Berkeley City Council at its meeting tonight has agreed unanimously to request that the City Manager evaluate and report back to the City Council no later than May 1, 2012 regarding:

1. The fiscal and operational impacts of not renewing the city's with Wells Fargo Bank and contracting with an alternative bank, including but not limited to Community Banks, membership-based Credit Unions or Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) for city banking services. -more-



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Press Release: Reward Offered For Information About City of Berkeley's First Homicide of 2012

From Sgt. Mary Kusmiss, Berkeley Police Information Officer
Monday January 30, 2012 - 05:05:00 PM

The City of Berkeley is offering a $15,000 reward, and Bay Area Crime Stoppers (BACS) is offering an additional $2,000 reward, for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect or suspects responsible for the City of Berkeley’s first homicide of 2012.

On Thursday, January 26, 2012 at about 6:50 p.m., the City of Berkeley Police Department (BPD) got a flurry of calls from community members reporting gunshots in the area of Shattuck and Ashby Avenues, Shattuck and Emerson and around Essex Streets. Officers found Kenneth Allen Warren, 35, of Hercules who had sustained gunshots wounds and was on Emerson Street east of Shattuck Avenue. City of Berkeley Fire Department (BFD) Paramedics transported Warren to a local Hospital’s Trauma Center where he was pronounced dead by physicians there. -more-



Estimated 400 Arrests Made in Day of Occupy Oakland Action

By Bay City News
Monday January 30, 2012 - 09:47:00 AM

Oakland police arrested an estimated 400 people Saturday during a day of protests that began with an attempt to take over a vacant building and ended with mass arrests and a break-in and vandalism at City Hall. -more-



New: Skateboarder in 'Grave' Condition after Colliding with a Car in Berkeley

By Khalida Sarwar (BCN)
Tuesday January 31, 2012 - 05:26:00 PM

An 18-year-old skateboarder is in "grave" condition today after being struck by a car in Berkeley on Monday evening, police said today. -more-



Press Release: Berkeley High School Info Night for Incoming 9th Graders – Feb 1

From Berkeley Unified School District website
Tuesday January 31, 2012 - 11:14:00 PM

The Berkeley High School Info night for incoming 9th graders and their parents/guardians is being held February 1 at 7:00pm in the Community Theater (on the northside of the BHS campus on Allston Way). This is a must for any student entering BHS for the 2012-13 school year, both current and prospective BUSD students. Applications for Fall 2012 admission to BHS for students not currently attending a BUSD school are due the week of February 21-24. Much more information is available here. -more-



Bone Marrow Match Needed by Chinese-American Woman

By Megan Hosterman
Tuesday January 31, 2012 - 09:40:00 PM

Janet Liang is a 25 year old, UCLA grad who grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and was diagnosed with Acute Leukemia in December. She only has 2 months to live unless she finds a bone marrow donor quickly (see her video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po9rZXNM5Tc ). Janet is Chinese-American, so people of Asian descent are more likely to be a match, but we want to encourage everyone to register. Registering is easy, fast, and free at marrow.org. Her website is www.helpingjanet.com and her facebook page is at https://www.facebook.com/#!/helpingjanet.
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Features

Road Scholar Adventures (First Person)

By Dorothy Snodgrass
Monday January 30, 2012 - 09:44:00 AM

Taking early retirement from my job at U.C.'s Boalt Hall School of Law, where I was a lowly administrative assistant, clearly wasn't the smartest move I've ever made. Suddenly I had all this loose time on my hands, driving me absolutely bananas! Not to worry-- thanks to the good Lord above, a friend passed on her Elderhostel Road Adventure catalog, so now I can fill those empty hours with dozens of Road Scholar programs. Should you not be familiar with Elderhostel, this is a not-for-profit educational program dating back to 1975, with President James Moses responsible for its remarkable success. It offers more than 7,000 learning adventures in all 50 states and 150 countries around the world, as can be seen in the bulky catalogs sent regularly throughout the year. There's also an Adventures Afloat Catalog. To date I've taken more than 31 programs, some domestic , some international. To say which programs I enjoyed the most is almost impossible. I've attended three or four New York City programs. One focused on the Fifth Avenue Museum Mile at the Metropolitan Museum. I also had lunch at a restaurant in one of the Twin Towers, little dreaming of the horrific attack of 9/11. -more-


Our Tax The Rich Rallies--An Instant Protest Success (First Person)

By Harry Brill
Monday January 30, 2012 - 09:39:00 AM

In early September, Evelyn Glaubman, who is a local artist, expressed her outrage to several of us about the unjustifiably low taxes paid by the rich and major corporations. She made a bunch of nicely designed posters and proposed that we publicize our concerns on Solano Avenue. None of us needed convincing. On September 12th, ten indignant protesters, mainly senior citizens, descended on Solano, by the closed Oak Theater on one side of the street and the Chase Bank on the other. We held up our signs, gave out leaflets, and engaged in conversations with people walking by. -more-


Public Comment

New: Occupy Oakland: Are We Being Childish?

By Osha Neumann
Tuesday January 31, 2012 - 01:09:00 PM

“The Bay Area Occupy Movement has got to stop using Oakland as their playground,” said Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, speaking at a press conference Saturday evening after a day of demonstrations called by Occupy Oakland that saw approximately 400 arrests, multiple injuries, and numerous confrontations with police. She ticked off the damage that had been done when a group of protesters broke into City Hall, overturning a scale model of the building, vandalizing a children's art exhibit, and burning an American flag. The next day in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, she returned to her talking point: "It's like a tantrum . . . They're treating us like a playground." -more-


Press Release: Oakland Council to Make Deeper Cuts to Vital City Services While Maintaining Enormous Funding Level for Largely Outside Agitator Police Force--Initial Occupy Research Survey Results Show that Occupy Served The People.

From Sarah Thomason and Yvonne Yen Liu, Occupy Oakland Research Working Group
Tuesday January 31, 2012 - 04:47:00 PM

As the Oakland City Council prepares to approve more layoffs and make even deeper cuts to already less-than minimal City services, Occupy Research released initial survey results that show the Occupy Movement provided food, healthcare, and other social services to Oakland residents in three months.

“Oakland is spending millions to prevent Occupy from providing vital services to Oakland residents when they need it most. These funds should be used to prevent further cuts to schools and social services, instead of being wasted on the violent repression of activists and community members who are trying to fill in the gaps where local government has failed.” said Sarah Thomason, member of Occupy Oakland Research Working Group and graduate student at University of California, Berkeley.

Over the past four years, Oakland has slashed $97 million from its General Purpose Fund, and $34.2 from other sources, cutting transitional kindergarten and adult education programs, reducing library services by one day each week, eliminating the senior shuttle and elderly nutrition programs, among other cuts, and laying off 277 City workers.

Initial survey results from Occupy Research show that: -more-


Response to Zelda Bronstein's The Tea Party, Planning and Democrac

By Jake Robinson, Concerned Citizens for Rutherford County, Murfreesboro, TN
Monday January 30, 2012 - 10:53:00 AM

I found her article to be balanced. I am conservative and yes, one of "those" tea party nut jobs...

Recently, my "google alerts" went off and warned me about our County's plan to finalize a two-year process (of public input and comment) for our 25 year Comprehensive Plan.

I researched and was appalled at the draconian (I know, it's my opinion) nature of the sweeping changes headed our way. I read the Comprehensive Plan (CP) thoroughly at least 3 times and gathered my wits and performed deep-research.

I think you are on to something when you challenge your government's agencies to prove where the growth numbers are coming from. -more-


New: 90% Smokefree is a Contradiction in Terms

By Carol Denney
Tuesday January 31, 2012 - 09:48:00 PM

90% Smokefree is a Contradiction in Terms, by Carol Denney -more-


Smart Growth: Another View

By Charles Siegel
Monday January 30, 2012 - 09:42:00 AM

In her two articles about regional planning for smart growth, Zelda Bronstein repeatedly claims that the planning is undemocratic. She sympathizes with Tea Party members who have disrupted planning meetings and who gave the biggest round of applause one evening to a Berkeley extremist who is well known for disrupting city meetings. -more-


CEDAW Principles Becoming City of Berkeley Law

By Rita Maran
Monday January 30, 2012 - 09:37:00 AM

Here's rare good news, rare indeed these days, about a truly worthwhile piece of new legislation that's about to be born in the City of Berkeley. The City Council will give the final YES on women's human rights becoming law in Berkeley this Tuesday 31 January 2012, when it formally approves the passage into Berkeley law of the safeguards and protections of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). CEDAW-related legislation is already in force in the city across the Bay; San Francisco was the first city in the US to establish new law based on CEDAW principles, making Berkeley the second city in the US to be taking this historic step. -more-


Editorial

Handgun Violence Strikes Again: Another Senseless Shooting in a Berkeley Neighborhood

By Becky O'Malley
Friday January 27, 2012 - 12:49:00 PM

There’s bad news today in the Planet’s old neighborhood in south Berkeley. Kenny Warren, nephew of Don Warren who’s been running the very popular Don’s Headquarters barber shop on Shattuck for four decades, was gunned down last night as he stood on the balcony at a friend’s apartment on Emerson, around the corner from the shop.

The gunman is reported to have fired many many rounds of bullets, perhaps as many as 80, from a pair of automatic weapons, the super-lethal variety which make it possible for any fool, without need for target practice, to hit his mark with at least one bullet. Forty shell casings were recovered from the sidewalk alone.

We say “his” mark here because neighbor accounts suggest that the shooter, like his victim, was a young African-American man. This is sad but not surprising. -more-


The Editor's Back Fence

Swanson (Oakland) Defers to Hancock (Berkeley) : He Will Not Run for State Senate--So She's In

Monday January 30, 2012 - 08:51:00 PM

Senator Loni Hancock (Berkeley) has announced in an email blast to her mailing list that she will not face any opposition in her quest for re-election to the California State Senate. -more-


New: Rumor Mill: Two Rumors Rejected by Berkeley Police

Thursday February 02, 2012 - 05:31:00 PM

Berkeley Police Information Officer Sgt. Mary Kusmiss today issued press releases denying two rumors which have been published elsewhere. She said that a recent Berkeley murder is NOT connected with a recent Vallejo murder in any way, and that there has NOT been a hold-up of any Wells Fargo bank in Berkeley. Neither rumor was published in the Planet. -more-


Columns

New: EATS, SHOOTS 'N" LEAVES: Berkeley Landlord Bankrolls Anti-Obama Ads

By Richard Brenneman
Tuesday January 31, 2012 - 11:17:00 PM

UC Berkeley students who live in the Gaia Building, the Fine Arts Building, or any of the other properties that make Sam Zell the city’s largest private landlord may be happy to learn that some pennies of their rent checks are going to Karl Rove. -more-


Dispatches From The Edge:Israel’s War On Democracy (and why Americans should care)

By Conn Hallinan
Tuesday January 31, 2012 - 08:00:00 PM

From its birth more than 60 years ago, Israel has always presented itself as “an oasis of democracy in a sea of despotism,” an outpost of pluralism surrounded by tyranny. While that equality never fully applied to the country’s Arab citizens, Israel was, for the most part an open society. But today political rights are under siege by right-wing legislators, militant settlers, and a growing religious divide in the Israeli army, all of which threaten to silence internal opposition to the policies of the government of Benjamin Netanyahu. Since that may include a war with Iran—and the probable involvement of the U.S. in such a conflict—the move to stifle dissent should be a major concern for Americans. -more-


Arts & Events

Belle de jour Explores the Dark Side of Deneuve

By Justin DeFreitas
Monday January 30, 2012 - 10:02:00 AM
Directors Luis Buñuel directs the coachman on the proper technique for ravishing Catherine Deneuve in <i>Belle de jour</i>.

The collaborations of director Luis Buñuel and screen writer Jean-Claude Carriere examine and satirize the dark underbelly of bourgeoisie society. Their films are dark, a bit twisted and sometimes discomfiting. But Buñuel and Carriere do not judge these characters. They are presented from a certain distance; we watch them, we gain a certain understanding of them, but we are not made to either identify with them nor be repulsed by them. Buñuel and Carriere merely present them as they are and allow the audience to come to their own conclusions. -more-


AROUND AND ABOUT THEATER: Virago Stages 'A Taste of Honey'

By Ken Bullock
Tuesday January 31, 2012 - 09:54:00 PM

Virago Theatre Co—based in Alameda, and featuring a predominately East Bay cast—opens its production of Shelagh Delaney's 1959 hit comedy of asingle mother and her teenage daughter moving into a working class slum in Northern England, this weekend at the Thick House on Potrero Hill in San Francisco. -more-


Theater Review: Tom Stoppard's 'Arcadia'—Actors Ensemble of Berkeley at Live Oak Theater

By Ken Bullock
Tuesday January 31, 2012 - 09:51:00 PM
L-R Aaron Lindstrom as Valentine Coverly, Jody Christian as Hannah Jarvis, Alona Bach as Thomasina Coverly, Paul Stout as Septimus Hodge, and Rachel Ferensowicz as Chloe Coverly.

A young early 19th century girl, learning about thermodynamics, asking her tutor the meaning of "carnal embrace" ... He replies it's about hugging a side of beef ... A garden in the new "scenic" style, sublime, with a hermitage—but where's the hermit? ... And almost 200 years later, speculation, conjecture—and a costume ball—on the former inhabitants and visitors of manor and garden, which may have included Lord Byron, and their thoughts, their secret loves—maybe a fatal duel over one of those loves ...

Tom Stoppard's 'Arcadia' is on the boards at Live Oak Theater, and looks very good there, the set, props and costuming a triumph for Actors Ensemble of Berkeley. -more-


Back Stories

Opinion

Editorials

Handgun Violence Strikes Again: Another Senseless Shooting in a Berkeley Neighborhood 01-27-2012

The Editor's Back Fence

Swanson (Oakland) Defers to Hancock (Berkeley) : He Will Not Run for State Senate--So She's In 01-30-2012

New: Rumor Mill: Two Rumors Rejected by Berkeley Police 02-02-2012

Fund for Berkeley Murder Victim's Children Will Be Established 01-28-2012

Funding Israel and Berkeley Law 01-28-2012

THIS JUST IN! New Lab to Be Build on UC Berkeley's Richmond Property! 01-24-2012

Cartoons

Odd Bodkins: Squishy (Cartoon) By Dan O'Neill 01-28-2012

Bounce: Chamaeleon Eyes.gif (Cartoon) By Joseph Young 01-28-2012

Public Comment

New: Occupy Oakland: Are We Being Childish? By Osha Neumann 01-31-2012

Press Release: Oakland Council to Make Deeper Cuts to Vital City Services While Maintaining Enormous Funding Level for Largely Outside Agitator Police Force--Initial Occupy Research Survey Results Show that Occupy Served The People. From Sarah Thomason and Yvonne Yen Liu, Occupy Oakland Research Working Group 01-31-2012

Response to Zelda Bronstein's The Tea Party, Planning and Democrac By Jake Robinson, Concerned Citizens for Rutherford County, Murfreesboro, TN 01-30-2012

New: 90% Smokefree is a Contradiction in Terms By Carol Denney 01-31-2012

Smart Growth: Another View By Charles Siegel 01-30-2012

CEDAW Principles Becoming City of Berkeley Law By Rita Maran 01-30-2012

The Tea Party, Planning and Democracy, Part Two (News Analysis) By Zelda Bronstein 01-27-2012

CNN Attempts to Defame Memory of Martin Luther King By Jack Bragen 01-28-2012

New: Another Occupy Oakland March Attacked by Police. By Marc Sapir 01-28-2012

New: Self Immolations and Tibet By Tenzin Dorjee 01-26-2012

New: Jerusalem Concert by Children's Orchestra Cancelled by Israeli Government Action By Samia Nasir Khoury 01-24-2012

Welcome Back Streicher!- The Alabama-Arizona Immigration Laws Recall 1935 Germany By Jean Damu 01-24-2012

One Person, One Vote (Except in Berkeley) By the Occasional Curmudgeon* 01-24-2012

There's More to Tobacco Story By Carol Denney 01-24-2012

Happy New Year, Berkeley--The Chickens Have Come Home to Roost By Jim Fousekis, Berkeley Budget SOS 01-24-2012

News

Flash: Berkeley Mayor Bates is Running--Again 02-02-2012

Press Release: Berkeley Police Confirm Skateboarder's Death From Sgt. Mary C. Kusmiss S-6 BPD Public Information Officer 02-01-2012

Updated: Death of Berkeley Skateboarder Reported By Bay City News and Planet 02-01-2012

Berkeley Council Declares House a Public Nuisance 01-31-2012

Press Release: City Council Stands With Berkeley Tibetan American Community From:Tenzin Paldron (PhD Student, UC Berkeley Department of Rhetoric) and Noah Sochet (Berkeley Peace and : 51Justice Commissioner) 01-31-2012

Berkeley City Council Will Study Not Renewing Wells Fargo Contract 01-31-2012

Press Release: Reward Offered For Information About City of Berkeley's First Homicide of 2012 From Sgt. Mary Kusmiss, Berkeley Police Information Officer 01-30-2012

Estimated 400 Arrests Made in Day of Occupy Oakland Action By Bay City News 01-30-2012

New: Skateboarder in 'Grave' Condition after Colliding with a Car in Berkeley By Khalida Sarwar (BCN) 01-31-2012

Press Release: Berkeley High School Info Night for Incoming 9th Graders – Feb 1 From Berkeley Unified School District website 01-31-2012

Bone Marrow Match Needed by Chinese-American Woman By Megan Hosterman 01-31-2012

Road Scholar Adventures (First Person) By Dorothy Snodgrass 01-30-2012

Our Tax The Rich Rallies--An Instant Protest Success (First Person) By Harry Brill 01-30-2012

Press Release: Occupy Oakland Say Oakland Police Violate Their Own Policies From Occupy Oakland Media Committee 01-29-2012

Oakland Police Say 200 Arrested During Occupy Actions By Bay City News 01-28-2012

Press Release: Audio of Oakland Press Conference with Mayor Jean Quan and Oakland City Officials From Sgt. Christopher Bolton, Oakland Police Department and Harry Hamilton Oakland City Administrator’s Office 01-28-2012

Press Release: City Provides Update on Occupy Activities in Downtown Oakland – 10:30 pm From Sgt. Christopher Bolton, Oakland Police Department and Harry Hamilton Oakland City Administrator’s Office 01-28-2012

Occupy Breaks into Oakland City Hall By Bay City News 01-28-2012

Press Release: Occupy Oakland Responds to Oakland Police Repression Tonight, Demands Accounting of Brutal Tactics, and End to Disinformation From Jamie Omar Yassin, Occupy Oakland 01-28-2012

Updated: Oakland: At Least 100 People Detained Near YMCA in Occupy Protest By Bay City News 01-28-2012

Oakland Protesters Prepare for Second Try to Enter Building By Laura Dixon (BCN) 01-28-2012

Press Release: Update on Occupy Activities in Downtown Oakland – 4:30 pm From Officer Johnna Watson, Oakland Police Department and Harry Hamilton, Oakland City Administrator’s Office 01-28-2012

Flash: Occupy Oakland Protest: Police Tear Gas, Threaten to Forcibly Remove Protesters By Laura Dixon (BCN) 01-28-2012

Berkeley Police Identify Victim of Last Night's Murder By Becky O'Malley 01-27-2012

Video Report on Berkeley Murder Scene Last Night By Florian Charread 01-27-2012

Flash: Man Shot and Killed on Emerson near Shattuck in Berkeley By Becky O'Malley 01-27-2012

Police Respond to Berkeley Shooting on Thursday Night By Erika Heidecker (BCN) 01-26-2012

Free-Market Medicine—A Personal Account by Michael Parenti 01-27-2012

Fire Hits Great China Restaurant in Downtown Berkeley By Scott Morris (BCN) and Planet 01-26-2012

Press Release: Alameda County Bans Bags, Mandates Recycling From Jeff Becerra, Stopwaste.org 01-26-2012

New: The Tea Party, Planning and Democracy(Part One) By Zelda Bronstein 01-25-2012

New: Two Arrested as Suspects in December Berkeley Shooting By HannahAlbarazi/JeffShuttleworth (BCN) 01-25-2012

Press Release: Study Shows Restored Wetlands Rarely Equal Condition of Original Wetlands By Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley Media Relations 01-25-2012

New: Ghosts of the Past: Blake's Re-opening on Telegraph Avenue as Pappy's--a Happy, If Haunted, Reminder of Berkeley's Past By Ted Friedman 01-25-2012

Columns

New: EATS, SHOOTS 'N" LEAVES: Berkeley Landlord Bankrolls Anti-Obama Ads By Richard Brenneman 01-31-2012

Dispatches From The Edge:Israel’s War On Democracy (and why Americans should care) By Conn Hallinan 01-31-2012

THE PUBLIC EYE: Obama’s Common Sense By Bob Burnett 01-27-2012

ECLECTIC RANT: Remembering Vietnam By Ralph E. Stone 01-27-2012

SENIOR POWER: Sister Age By Helen Rippier Wheeler 01-27-2012

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDGE: The U.S., Indonesia & The Times By Conn Hallinan 01-24-2012

New: WILD NEIGHBORS; The Short but Intense Life of the Tidewater Goby By Joe Eaton 01-25-2012

MY COMMONPLACE BOOK: (a diary of excerpts copied from printed books, with comment added by the reader.) By Dorothy Bryant 01-24-2012

Arts & Events

Belle de jour Explores the Dark Side of Deneuve By Justin DeFreitas 01-30-2012

AROUND AND ABOUT THEATER: Virago Stages 'A Taste of Honey' By Ken Bullock 01-31-2012

Theater Review: Tom Stoppard's 'Arcadia'—Actors Ensemble of Berkeley at Live Oak Theater By Ken Bullock 01-31-2012

Press Release: Group Demands Mortgage Modification for Noted Author From The Friends of Jane Powell 01-28-2012

New: AROUND & ABOUT MUSIC: Berkeley Symphony This Thursday: Debussy, Dutilleux, Shostakovich By Ken Bullock 01-24-2012

AROUND AND ABOUT THEATER By Ken Bullock 01-25-2012

Don't Miss This By Dorothy Snodgrass 01-24-2012