Berkeleyside staff

UC Berkeley opens Magnes Collection’s new home [Coco Times] The Marsh extends Don Reed’s “The Kipling Hotel” to 03.25 [The Marsh] Two men charged in UC Berkeley student’s brutal beating [AP] Berkeley home made with salvaged car scraps [A&D] Berkeley man facing sex charges out on bail [Fremont Argus] Photo: Dragon 2012 01, by 2812 […]

Rep hosts selected shorts with Jill Eikenberry, Michael Tucker [Broadway World] Haas School to inaugurate new Summer Institute [UC Berkeley] City considers moving bank account from Wells Fargo [Patch] Suspended Cal forward expected back next season [Chronicle] Contention resurfaces with People’s Park maintenance [Daily Cal] Photo: Rainy day beauty #1, by sisterfish8/Berkeleyside Flickr pool.

Applications to UC Berkeley surge 17% [New York Times] Berkeley’s Mint Leaf Indian restaurant celebrates four years [PRWeb] Famed Berkeley High musicians eye trip to Cuba [CBS] Children in west Berkeley to be tested for heavy metals [Oakland Tribune] Community celebrates Ed Roberts Day at Cal [UCB News] Original 1969 People’s Park leaflets found [HuffPo] […]

A Jewish museum shifts identity [NYT] Berkeley High girls fall to city rival St Mary [Chronicle] Occupy Cal library protest ends [UC Berkeley] DJ Dave on how he “sold out” a long time ago [NYT] Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life reopens [Chronicle] Cal frat boy wows “American Idol” judges [Coco Times] Two new […]

Berkeley startup capitalizes on printed word, photo [Oakland Tribune] Some tenants to file suit against owners of Sequoia Apartments [Daily Cal] Cal faculty stand between protesters, police crackdown [Coco Times] Urban farming essentials: the definitive guide [Grist] Berkeley scientists turning seaweed into biofuels [Chronicle] Berkeley gets a “B” for anti-smoking efforts [Patch] Berkeley’s unemployment rate lowest in 3 […]

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: […]