Berkeleyside staff

Berkeley engineers help protect refugees from violence [East Bay Express] Legendary singer Johnny Otis, who grew up in Berkeley, dies [Mercury News] Robert Bresson movies at BAM/PFA will make you weep [KQED] Longtime Berkeley kitchen remodeler takes BAHA award [Inside Bay Area] Photo: Utata Thursday walk, by 2812 photography/Berkeleyside Flickr pool.

Kala Institute to hold tribute to Peter Selz, first director BAM [Kala] What happens when Cal’s business school cherry picks students [Fast Company] City aims to curb losses in parking ticket revenue [Patch] Berkeley pays $170,000 to woman hit by police car [Oakland Tribune] UC signs contract with new shuttle bus company [Daily Cal] Albany […]

Berkeley Police seek woman wanted for credit card theft [Patch] Bears to head north where it’s raining cats and dogs [Bear Insider] Rep announces cast for “A Doctor in Spite of Himself” [Theater Mania] Photo: Jewel Lake Tilden Park, by sisterfish3/Berkeleyside Flickr pool.

Researchers, tribes, clash over human bones [USA Today] Occupy Berkeley “knit-in” sends goods to NYC, Egypt, Japan [Occupy Berkeley] BHS jazz group going to Cuba [Oakland Tribune] Mapping UC Berkeley’s landscape through its voices [KALW] Magnes Collection opens in downtown Berkeley on 1/22 [Berkeley Homes] Ruth Reichl on birth of food movement in Berkeley [Diablo] […]

UC picks new vendor for shuttle buses, but retains drivers [UCB News] Cleanup of diesel fuel in Strawberry Creek is winding down [UCB News] MLK Day events and closures [Patch] From Syria to Berkeley High School [BHS Jacket] Berkeley’s filmmaker’s documentary on apartheid is “monumental” [Chronicle] Author ponders what’s a “true-life” novel? [Talking Writing] Photo: […]

UC Berkeley sees massive increase in freshman applications [East Bay Express] Artist makes creatures so lifelike they are called “vegan taxidermy” [Chronicle] Cal faculty help discover smallest solar system [Daily Cal] West campus will be transformed for school district HQs [Oakland Tribune] UC is either friendly or hostile to Jewish students, depending [J Weekly] Berkeley […]

Berkeley Lab works on better radiation detectors for ports [TechStream] Geraldo Rivera tussles with liberal Berkeley prof [Fox Nation] Concetta Finocchio, longtime activist for the disabled, dies [Mercury News] Divino Restaurant, which means divine in Italian, will open soon [BANG] Howard Hawks retrospective at Pacific Film Archive [Huffington Post] UC lecturer arrested for soliciting sex files […]

Heart to hearth: Berkeley nonprofit makes survival sustainable [Grist] Berkeley surrogate sex partner inspires story, film [Chronicle] Gennifer Brandon helping lead Bears to being top team [Cal Bears] George Moscone’s murder explored by son in new play [Mercury News] Photo: Full moon, by seaangel12/Berkeleyside Flickr pool.

Meredith Maran’s new novel: “A very Berkeley family story” [Chronicle] Daniel Borenstein: Kamlarz retirement deal not unique [Mercury News] Berkeley Lab hires UCLA expert for Molecular Foundry [SF Business News] Cal has a great recruiting class for football, but will success follow? [College Hotline] Photo: Green fingers, by 2812 photography/Berkeleyside Flickr pool.

Shaq Thomson commits to Cal football team [SFGate] Healthy take-out options on Solano Avenue [510 Families] Broc Cellars’ Chris Brockway on favorite wines, resolutions [Eater SF] Long live Bette’s OceanView Diner [East Bay Express] Phil Bronstein to join Berkeley-based CIR [Chronicle] Photo: Tilden, January 5th, 2012, by Anna Dorn.  

Berkeley man to go on trial on Walnut Creek rape charges [CCT] Berkeley watch company uses Facebook for focus groups [NYT] UC Lab makes robot that emulates leaping lizard [Chronicle] Berkeley schools: a sustainable food model [Fed Up With Lunch] 27-year old mezzo soprano is a rising singer [Coco Times] Biotech company Xoma cuts workforce […]