Photo Show Reframes Black Panther Image
“We are challenging the memory that Black Panthers were brutal, the memory that they were violent, and the memory that they were criminal,” said UC Berkeley professor Percy Hintzen at a lecture Sunday. -more-
“We are challenging the memory that Black Panthers were brutal, the memory that they were violent, and the memory that they were criminal,” said UC Berkeley professor Percy Hintzen at a lecture Sunday. -more-
Frank Rich, the longtime New York Times drama critic, couldn’t seem to find anything good to say about Harry Kondoleon’s “The Vampires” when it appeared 14 years ago in New York. Judging by the production of Shotgun Players that opened Saturday night at La Val’s Subterranean, it looks as if Rich was just having a bad night. -more-
Among Berkeley’s few remaining original downtown residences is the John M. Doyle House, located at 2008 University Avenue. It was built as a duplex with a workshop in 1890; the storefront facade was added in 1947, but the Victorian house has remained in the rear. -more-
TUESDAY, APRIL 15
City Council’s effort to rename a major Berkeley street in honor of labor leader Cesar Chavez may be headed for a bump in the road. -more-
Pinball machines, beer and pizza stand guard while below, in the dungeon of La Val’s Pizza Parlor on Euclid Avenue, Berkeley’s 10-year-old phenomenon, The Shotgun Players, launch their latest theatrical offering: Harry Kondoleon’s “The Vampires.” -more-
The following letter was sent to Chancellor Robert Berdahl in response to a protest held April 9 at UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza: -more-
As the world watched, spellbound, the spectacle of massive looting in the cities of Iraq, the tragedy proved particularly wrenching for those whose lives have been devoted to the study of the ancient land considered the cradle of Western culture. Hardest to bear were scenes of looting at Baghdad’s Iraqi National Museum, until Friday home to one of the world’s greatest collections of antiquities. -more-
Nothing could be more indicative of America’s innocence abroad than the outraged statement by one of the officers in Operation Iraqi Freedom. -more-
A woman walking her dog along the Point Isabel Shoreline in Richmond Monday discovered the decomposed body of a woman at water’s edge, about a mile from where the body of a full-term male fetus was found the day before. -more-
On April 18, I and other stunned neighbors from the Benvenue and Willard neighborhoods watched in dismay as eight members of City Council voted swiftly and mercilessly to destroy a fine old apartment building at 2500 Benvenue Ave. at Dwight Way. This building is just one part of the expansion plans of the American Baptist Seminary of the West. However, much to the community’s relief, the council also voted 6-2-1 to require an Environmental Impact Report (ERI) for another part of the project, a proposed massive new building slated to replace two historic homes. The purpose of the entire project is in question, since the seminary has only 40 full-time students and currently rents half its space to UC Extension. -more-
It’s a classic switcheroo — a four-way building swap that is leaving West Berkeley residents a little dizzy. -more-
Dozens of new banners honoring UC Berkeley’s 18 Nobel Laureates were installed along Telegraph Avenue last week to promote the area as a center for ideas. -more-
A group of teachers and parents at Jefferson Elementary School are pushing to rename the building, citing concerns with Thomas Jefferson’s slaveholding past. But critics, including some parents, call the move shortsighted. -more-
Race Collides With History In Effort to Rename School 04-15-2003
John Henry Mitchell Fought to Calm Traffic in Intersection Where He Died 04-11-2003
Photo Show Reframes Black Panther Image By JOHN GELUARDI 04-15-2003
‘Vampires’ Has Bite At Under Ground By BETSY M. HUNTON 04-15-2003
Letters to the Editor 04-15-2003
Pioneer Doyle Leaves Legacy Downtown By SUSAN CERNY 04-15-2003
Berkeley This Week 04-15-2003
04-15-2003
Which Way to Cesar Chavez? By JOHN GELUARDI 04-15-2003
Shotgun Founder Dooley Aims Play 'In Your Face' By FRED DODSWORTH 04-15-2003
Visitor to UC Campus Denounces 'Vulgar' Behavior of Protesters Henry Hart 04-15-2003
Scholars Decry Iraqi Looting By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 04-15-2003
Colin Powell Not Lawrence of Arabia By SAGARIKA GHOSE 04-15-2003
Arts Calendar 04-15-2003
Decomposed Bodies Wash Up on Bay Shore By JOHN GELUARDI 04-15-2003
Council Must Account For Benvenue Housing Policy By SHARON HUDSON 04-15-2003
District Plays Musical Chairs With School, Office Buildings By DAVID SCHARFENBERG 04-15-2003
Berkeley Briefs 04-15-2003
Banners Celebrate UC’s Nobel Laureates John Geluardi 04-15-2003
Berkeley This Week 04-15-2003
Bates Gets Mixed Reviews In New Role as Mayor By DAVID SCHARFENBERG 04-11-2003
Unscripted: Wiseman Retrospective Spans ERIC HSU 04-11-2003
BERKELEY THIS WEEK Staff 04-11-2003
Letters to the Editor 04-11-2003
Budget Cuts: Bad to Worse By JOHN GELUARDI 04-11-2003
Arts Calendar 04-11-2003
Albany Advocates Say Town’s SHERMAN LIM and JAMES CARTER 04-11-2003
Adams Takes Pulitzer With Reservations By DAVID SCHARFENBERG 04-11-2003
Eleven Ways to Remove Rudeness BARBARA GILBERT 04-11-2003
Comfort Meals, Low Prices PATTI DACEY 04-11-2003
Berkeley This Week 04-11-2003
Of Speedy’s Downfall COUNTRY JOE McDONALD 04-11-2003
Hearing Set for Port Violence —Angela Rowen 04-11-2003
Apply Patience to Battle Against Homelessness SONJA FITZ 04-11-2003
Health Official Warns New Disease Spreading By FRED DODSWORTH Special to the Planet 04-11-2003
City Council Delays Five-Story Project By JOHN GELUARDI 04-11-2003
The Scared One From Susan Parker 04-11-2003
Police Blotter By JOHN GELUARDI 04-11-2003
Berkeley Briefs 05-12-2005
Unscripted: Wiseman Retrospective Spans Thirty-Five-Year Career in Documentaries By ERIC HSU Special to the Planet 04-11-2003