Firefighters battling the fire that engulfed the Sequoia Apartments building on Haste and Telegraph Friday. Photo: Pete Rosos The city of Berkeley and the merchants of Telegraph Avenue are encouraging the community to shop on Berkeley’s most famous street this holiday season after a devastating fire left many people homeless on Friday and closed down […]
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What happened when Lonely Island trio visited Amoeba
Back in April, three Berkeley boys made a return visit to their hometown. Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer are the threesome behind Lonely Island, makers of ‘digital shorts” (otherwise known as music videos) for NBC’s Saturday Night Live. The trio visited Amoeba on National Record Store Day to promote their latest album, Turtleneck & Chain, and chat […]
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Amoeba named the best record store in the country
Marc Weinstein of Amoeba Music, named top record store in the country. Photo: Vinyl Hounds So sooner had the ink dried on our story about Amoeba celebrating National Record Store Day tomorrow with, among other things, an appearance by The Lonely Island Berkeley boys, than the news crosses our transom that Rolling Stone has named Amoeba […]
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The boys are back in town: Lonely Island trio hit Berkeley
Jorma Taccone, Andy Samberg and Akiva Schaffer: visiting their Berkeley hometown Update, 7:30pm: Exciting news: Dina, one of the managers of Amoeba, writes in to say that this event is NOT sold out as of 5 o’clock 4.14.11. “There are still wristbands available for those who pre-order the new album. Thanks! Peace” Thanks Dina. The […]
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City says it is addressing Telegraph Avenue rat problem
The city of Berkeley’s environmental health division says it is working to solve the problem of a rat infestation on a vacant lot on the corner of Telegraph Avenue and Haste. City of Berkeley spokesperson Mary Kay Clunies-Ross tells Berkeleyside that city officials have been to the site “a couple of times” since a report […]
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The rats of Telegraph Avenue
One of the most graphic moments at Berkeleyside’s inaugural Local Business Forum on Monday night was when Marc Weinstein, the co-founder 20 years ago of Amoeba Music, stood up and described a scene he encounters regularly on the vacant lot near his store on the corner of Telegraph and Haste. “I don’t want to turn people […]
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Photos from the First Local Business Forum
By Queena Kim, The Bay Citizen Welcome to the first ever “Local Business Forum” at Freight & Salvage. On stage tonight were Berkeleyside’s Lance Knobel in conversation with Wired’s Chris Anderson and Autodesk’s Carl Bass, who both live in Berkeley. The Berkeleyside Local Business Forum begins/All photos by citizen journalists from Bay Citizen The doors […]
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Marc Weinstein: Berkeley’s indie music maestro
Marc Weinstein: owner of Amoeba Records. Photo: Amoeba Blog Marc Weinstein is a Berkeley institution — or if he isn’t he should be. The founder of Amoeba Records, the world’s largest independent record retailer, which opened in a former Mexican restaurant on Telegraph Avenue in 1990, Weinstein has built a veritable empire based on the […]
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Test your knowledge of Berkeley’s many murals
Mural #10 on the Berkeley Mural Treasure Hunt. According to Brett Weinstein, there are more than 80 murals in our city. Some are well-known, such the one commemorating the history of the Free Speech Movement on the side of Amoeba Records, or the 3-D work at La Peña Cultural Center on Shattuck. Others are less visible, […]
