Michael Lerner Hours after Tikkun magazine held a gathering to celebrate the magazine’s 25th anniversary, the house of the editor was vandalized. Vandals plastered posters on the garage door of Rabbi Michael Lerner’s Cragmont Avenue home Tuesday night, according to Berkeley police. The posters depicted pictures of a Nazi carrying away a Jew, according to […]
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Peggy Orenstein dissects girls’ passion for pink
From her home in north Berkeley where she lives with her filmmaker husband Steven Okazaki and 7-year-old daughter Daisy, Peggy Orenstein has been opining for years for the New York Times magazine about the world of girls and feminism. Last week, her latest book, Cinderella Ate My Daughter, was published and it is already climbing […]
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It’s in The New Yorker: God spotted in Berkeley
At long last, the truth can be revealed: God has visited Berkeley. And apparently he is tall, broad-shouldered and six foot three. No word on his hair length. This news of God’s appearance was revealed last week in the New Yorker’s Thanksgiving edition, in an article by Lauren Collins titled “Are You The Messiah?” Apparently, […]
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Hosts of KPFA’s Morning Show axed
Protest outside KPFA last week The executive director of the Pacifica Foundation laid off the staff of KPFA’s popular The Morning Show on Monday as part of a cost cutting measure. Arlene Englehardt laid off co-hosts Aimee Allison and Brian Edwards-Tiekert on Monday and informed them by letter that they would be paid through Dec. […]
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Protesters picket KPFA over staff cuts
More than 100 people marched outside KPFA headquarters on Martin Luther King Street at noon on Thursday to protest looming staff cuts. The protesters, made up of paid and volunteer staff at the radio station and representatives from the Communication Workers of America, contend that a forthcoming proposal to cut workers is unnecessary. While the […]
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Electric car bores people in Berkeley
Wired reporter Chuck Squatriglia got the use of a futuristic-looking electric car from Mitsubishi and took it out for a spin on the streets of Berkeley. He was amazed at the reaction he got: total indifference. It seems Berkeleyans were so busy whizzing around in their hybrid Priuses that they barely noticed the bright blue […]
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The Monthly turns 40
May 2010 cover with self portrait by Colette Calascione The Monthly, (formerly known as The Telegraph Monthly, the Berkeley Monthly, and the East Bay Monthly) turns 40 in October and has put out an anniversary edition pondering the question “What Makes the East Bay Unique? The magazine’s writers have asked 40 “local luminaries” for some […]
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Book bares truth about false incest accusation
Bay Area author Meredith Maran has been chronicling her life and the world around her since the mid 1990s. Her memoir, What It’s Like to Live Now, which was a Chronicle bestseller, and Notes From an Incomplete Revolution, detailed what it was like to come out as a lesbian, raise two sons in a marginal […]
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Berkeleyan wins New Yorker cartoon caption contest
“Throw us a doughnut!” That was William Rodarmor’s winning entry in the New Yorker’s June 28th cartoon caption contest. Rodarmor, a Berkeley resident, is an award-winning French literary translator and a former editor at PC World magazine. The other contenders for the caption were: “Abandon cup!” “We’ll never get to sleep tonight.” Hat tip to […]
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Why isn’t more of NBC’s Parenthood filmed in Berkeley?
Every since NBC debuted its hour-long drama, Parenthood, people in Berkeley have pointed out all the ways it’s not, well, Berkeley. Complaints are many. There are too many white characters, and not enough people of color. No one is gay. There are too few Priuses in the show, and not nearly enough Peet’s Coffees. That […]
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New Berkeley newspaper set to launch in September
Four months after the demise of the newsprint version of the Berkeley Daily Planet, a new weekly newspaper devoted to Berkeley is set to launch in the fall. The Berkeley Times will focus on the community made up of families with school-age children with an emphasis on public school education and kids’ sports, although more general […]
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Berkeleyside launches partnership with Bay Citizen
The Bay Citizen, a non-profit news website dedicated to independent reporting on civic and community issues in the Bay Area, went live today. Berkeleyside is happy to announce that we are one of the site’s founding media partners. The arrangement will see The Bay Citizen publishing selected Berkeleyside articles, such as the one today on […]
