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Berkeley’s 1923 fire, 100 years later | At 28, he died on Berkeley’s streets | House with famed communal hot tub up for sale

Berkeley Public Library

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Around Berkeley: Dance party on Fourth, Ezra Klein talk

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Iris Kwok and Andrew Gilbert Sept. 28, 2023, 12:42 p.m.September 28, 2023

Other events include a Berkeley Improv student showcase, hip-hop collage-making session and tour of a glass-making studio.

Posted inEvents

Around Berkeley: Pottery sale, new festival in Civic Center Park, 150 years of art depicting the Cal campus

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Iris Kwok and Andrew Gilbert Aug. 17, 2023, 10:33 a.m.August 17, 2023

Other events include a showing of Miyazaki’s Spirited Away at BAMPFA, Berkeley High reunion and talk by community historian Steve Finacom.

Children race in carboard boats in a Berkeley swimming pool
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Around Berkeley: Racing cardboard boats, making zines, saving Street Spirit

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Iris Kwok and Andrew Gilbert July 13, 2023, 10:32 a.m.July 13, 2023

Other events include the opening of ACCI Gallery’s flight-themed group exhibit and an outdoor showing of Puss in Boots.

Posted inArts

Berkeley is searching for its first ever youth poet laureate

Avatar photo by Iris Kwok July 11, 2023, 3:30 p.m.July 11, 2023

A youth poet laureate and vice laureate will be chosen in January through a new Berkeley Library program. The city’s second ever adult laureate will be selected in December.

Children gather around a table to watch a cooking demonstration at the Berkeley Library.
Posted inCity

Kids can eat lunch free 3 days a week at the Berkeley library this summer

Avatar photo by Iris Kwok June 26, 2023, 1:00 p.m.June 26, 2023

Berkeley’s Central Library is piloting a free lunch program for kids 18 and under. Kids can also eat free in the summer at some schools and community centers.

Rafael Gonzalez speaks into a microphone during the Lights of Liberty rally at Martin Luther King Jr. Park in Berkeley in 2019. The crowd holds up various posters in the background in protest of poor conditions at migrant detention centers.
Posted inArts

After 5 years, Berkeley’s first-ever poet laureate is calling it quits

Avatar photo by Iris Kwok June 20, 2023, 4:19 p.m.July 10, 2023

The city wants to crown a new poet with laurels — and this time the job will come with formal duties and $10,000. You can apply starting July 1.

Wearing a shirt and tie and a gigantic live snake wrapped around his neck, Jim Jacobs stands in a library surrounded by several smiling children.
Posted inObituaries

Remembering James Henry Jacobs Jr., Berkeley’s first African American librarian

by Hannah Aguero June 07, 2023, 6:00 a.m.June 7, 2023

He began the Summer Reading Program and pushed to desegregate the library’s collection. Humble, humorous and multi-talented, he spent the Korean War interpreting for the U.S. Army in Japan, where he competed in judo at the highest level.

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Shop Talk: Beloved Berkeley pet food store loses dogged battle to internet retailers; Modena Salon is moving

Joanne Furio by Joanne Furio Feb. 03, 2023, 12:03 p.m.February 6, 2023

Animal Farm Discount Pet Foods was a mainstay on the corner of San Pablo Avenue and Cedar Street for 35 years. Even the owner’s parrot felt it was time to go.

Exterior of library
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Watch the World Cup at your Berkeley library — and learn about human rights, FIFA corruption and Qatar

Avatar photo by Ricky Rodas Dec. 05, 2022, 2:55 p.m.December 5, 2022

The Berkeley Public Library is hosting game watch parties and a virtual panel examining sportswashing and controversies in the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

Posted inCity

Berkeley Tool Lending Library will end late fees, go fully fine-free

Avatar photo by Iris Kwok Sept. 08, 2022, 3:56 p.m.September 12, 2022

Berkeley Public Library stopped charging late fees for teen and adult books in 2018. Now, residents can check out tools, from ice cream makers to weed whackers, without worrying about overdue fees.

Posted inObituaries

Remembering Regina Minudri, former director of Berkeley Public Library

by Guest contributor June 28, 2021, 7:00 a.m.August 4, 2022

She started the Tool Lending Library, an adult literacy program and was the first library director in California to turn to voters to secure library tax funding.

Posted inIn Brief

More time to browse books: Berkeley Public Library opens more branches

Avatar photo by Frances Dinkelspiel June 18, 2021, 4:32 p.m.October 4, 2022

The Tarea Hall Pittman/South Branch will open for in-person browsing on June 22 and the Claremont branch will open on June 28.

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