That’s the question the Los Angeles Times poses in a lengthy article today, written to coincide with the 30th anniversary of Chez Panisse. The answers are varied: “There’s something very Khmer Rouge about Alice Waters,” said Anthony Bourdain, a chef as well known for his theatricality as his food. “I’m suspicious of orthodoxy when it […]
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Daily Planet reports on continuing troubles
The Berkeley Daily Planet is facing ongoing difficulties and has been advised to refrain from engaging in any financial transactions, be it paying staff or accepting fees from advertisers. Writing on the publication’s website today, publisher Becky O’Malley explains that, following a theft by a payroll preparer the company was using, attorneys have advised the […]
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Dave Eggers decries the death of the newspaper
Reports of the death of the newspaper are greatly exaggerated. Long live the newspaper. So says bestselling author Dave Eggers, who with a small editorial team, published Panorama, a 320-page newspaper that sold out its 20,000 print-run in December. The prolific publisher discussed the newspaper business as a guest of the UC Berkeley Graduate School […]
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Planet in spin, goes online only
In a lengthy editorial in today’s Berkeley Daily Planet (which is not yet online update read it here), publisher Michael O’Malley and executive editor Becky O’Malley announce that the paper is giving up print publication “for the moment”. They write: The only way to cut expenses further is to give up print publication for the […]
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Berkeley reporters to dig into unsolved Civil Rights murders
The Berkeley-based Center for Investigative Reporting has just announced that it will launch investigations into a number of unsolved, racially-motivated murders committed during the Civil Rights era. CIR will team up with Paperny Films of Vancouver, WNET of New York, National Public Radio, the National Archives, and other organization to form the Civil Rights Cold […]
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‘Flanagan made me choke on my chard’
Berkeley freelance writer Sarah Henry, who muses about food and family matters on her blog, Lettuce Eat Kale, was so hot under the collar after reading Caitlin Flanagan’s “Cultivating Failure” article in The Atlantic, she had to wait a week to cool off before responding. Henry volunteers at King Middle School’s Edible Schoolyard. Here’s her […]
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Berkeley High Jacket now online
Photo by Simone Obidahday, Jacket staff The Berkeley High School Jacket has long been recognized as one of the best high school newspapers in the country. That reputation comes in part from the story it broke 9 years ago about how Berkeley landlord Lackireddy Bali Reddy was importing girls from India to work as sex […]