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The Berkeley Wire: 05.23.13: Photo: beckcowles Indecent exposure incidents investigated in Albany, Berkeley (BANG)Graduate exhibition at BAM features six artists (Mercury News)Cal student in exotic bird death takes plea (KTVU)Complaints filed against USC, Cal over rape reporting (LA Times)Berkeley High combo hits right not...
Remembering Barbara Oliver, iconic Bay Area theatre figure: Barbara Oliver, who passed away on Monday. Photo: David Allen Barbara Oliver, the founding Artistic Director of Berkeley’s Aurora Theatre and an instrumental figure in Bay Area theatre for more than 40 years, passed away peacefully from complications of a stroke on Monday at her Berkeley home. ...
Kai Eckhardt’s zeitgeist: Berkeley bassist plays home: Kai Eckhardt plays Berkeley’s Jazzschool on Friday Kai Eckhardt is recognized internationally as one of jazz’s most prodigious electric bassists, but few people know the extraordinary sojourn that brought him to Berkeley. He was born in the Rhineland to a Liberian father and West German mother ...
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After Major National Security Speech, Lee Still Has Concerns Over Use Of Drones: CONGRESS 13//DRONES | While some opponents of the Obama Administration’s use of military drones were placated by the president’s major national security speech Thursday, East Bay Rep. Barbara Lee, however, still has concerns. Preceding the president’s speech Thursday morning, Lee introduced the ...
An Early Shot Across Tuman’s Bow: Joe Tuman OAKLAND//MAYOR 2014 | What exactly likely Oakland mayoral candidate Joe Tuman thought he was getting away with when he placed personal political aspirations in the middle of his syllabus is unclear. The San Francisco Chronicle reported Thursday Tuman for a class assignment asked h...
Donald Evans Named Berkeley's New Superintendent: EDUCATION | Hayward Superintendent Donald Evans was confirmed as Berkeley’s new school superintendent Wednesday and will start his new job July 1 after spending just 18 months at the helm in Hayward. Evans would not clarify why he was leaving Hayward after spending such a short while with the di...
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Car is king in street design, to detriment of pedestrians: Wide roadways, long stretches between traffic lights, mistimed crosswalks prove deadly for walkers
How we analyzed pedestrian fatalities: What consequences do drivers face when they kill a pedestrian in the five largest Bay Area counties? We sifted through thousands of pages of documents to find the answers.
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Students file charges against campus for sexual assault mishandling: Nine UC Berkeley students have filed a complaint with the US Department of Education alleging that UC Berkeley violated federal regulations on the handling of sexual assault. The complaint, filed Wednesday, alleges the university violated 10 provisions of the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Sec...
UC Berkeley graduate student receives new fellowship: By Chase Schweitzer | Staff cschweitzer@dailycal.org UC Berkeley architecture graduate student Antony Kim and his faculty mentor have been awarded the new Schmidt-MacArthur Fellowship for their commitment to finding self-sustaining sources of lighting in low-income housing developments. The fello...
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November 2012 Summary of Recommendations: Here's my summary of recommendations for the November 2012 election. I've tried my best to put these in the order they'll appear on your ballot, based on how they show up in mine. If there's a race missing that you want more info on, post a comment!!Federal & State President, Senator, Congres...
Oakland City Council District 1: Raya #1, Lemley #2, Kalb #3: This is an interesting race. North Oakland's District 1 has been Jane Brunner's seat for 16 years. She's stepping down to run for City Attorney, so it is an open seat. There are seven candidates, no obvious front-runner, and a lot of good ideas from good people. I don't get to vote in this race, ...
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Girlfriend Grieves for Man Shot Dead on Berkeley Street: By Doug OakleyStaff WriterBay Area News Groupdoakley@bayareanewsgroup.comThis article originally published on Feb. 7, 2013BERKELEY -- The girlfriend of a man shot to death on a busy street on Monday was grieving with her sons at home on Tuesday, a block away from where the man died. Teena Alexand...
Why Have Rape Reports Increased by 95 Percent in Berkeley?: By Doug OakleyStaff WriterBay Area News Groupdoakley@bayareanewsgroup.comThis article originally published on Feb. 9, 2013BERKELEY -- Police here logged a 95 percent increase in reported rapes in 2012, a spike in cases that has police, victim advocates and educators wondering what happened. The r...
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A Meeting of Wizards: Indra’s Net’s “Copenhagen” at Berkeley’s Osher Studio:
Eliza O'Malley Sings Aaron Blumenfeld's Songs on Thursday at the Berkeley Arts Festival:
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Parking rates begin to stabilize as the SFpark program approaches two-year milestone: Although hot spots remain, many parking meters are stabilizing at the right price. (Red = increase, light blue = no change, dark blue = decrease.) Courtesy of SFMTA. It has been nearly two years since San Francisco first launched the SFpark program to study how a parking crunch could be allevia...
Transit lanes for Church Street: On Church Street in San Francisco near the intersection of Market Street — a nexus of light rail, streetcar, and bus lines — a simple but potentially transformative street improvement was put in place over the weekend. The center lanes of Church Street between Duboce Avenue and 16th Street were p...
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