Berkeley Resole SOLE REPAIR Back in January, we reported that Marmot Mountain Works, near Ashby Station, was due to close. And indeed it came to pass last month. But, be aware that climbing shoe repair services are still being offered there. How? Because Tom Wandall, the chap who had operated that service as a Marmot […]
Keneuoe Vivere
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Shop Talk: The ins and outs of Berkeley businesses
Keneuoe Vivere: changing. Photo: Nancy Rubin FASHION MOVE Designer boutique Keneuoe Vivere, which opened its store at 2951 College Avenue in the Elmwood in 2009, is closing its retail operation in order to focus on personal design services. The store’s last day was Sunday March 18. Keneuoe Designs is holding its first Retail Account Opening celebrating spring at Rue […]
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Berkeley store takes red carpet to the White House
Berkeley’s Keneuoe Vivere, procurer of tailor-made suits and dresses to the sartorially savvy, scored something of a coup recently when one of owner Keneuoe’s creations went all the way to the White House. It happened when Nicole Zatarain Rivera, a 17-year-old student at International Studies Academy in San Francisco, was selected to represent WritersCorps at […]
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Hollywood comes to Berkeley for TV show, again
Two Hacienda Heights actors make their way to the Keneuoe Vivere store on College Avenue. It isn’t only the people behind NBC series Parenthood who feel Berkeley is a choice spot to shoot a TV series. Yesterday, the Elmwood neighborhood paid host to a film crew shooting scenes for Hacienda Heights, a night-time drama (not a […]
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New to the Elmwood: a design and tailoring studio
The Elmwood neighborhood continues its gentle gentrification with the recent arrival of a very stylish design and tailoring studio, occupying part of the refurbished Bolfing’s Hardware store at 2951 College Avenue, near the corner of Ashby. Keneuoe Vivere — or K/V Studio — is owned by local resident Keneuoe who has been designing clothes in […]
