The city-owned parking lot at Oxford and Addison streets is not yet available for development, but that hasn’t stopped Berkeley’s most prolific – and perhaps most controversial – developer from spreading the word about his plans to develop housing and provide theatre space for the Shotgun Players at the site. -more-

Saturday, April 1

Barge into the Kala Institute, bark out the old cliché “stop the presses!” and you very well may trigger a major shutdown. That’s because the 25-year-old art institute’s 8,500-square-foot main studio is inundated with more varieties of presses than you can shake a lithograph at. There are giant presses and baby-sized presses, venerable old presses and shiny new presses, presses used for one form of printing or another, presses used to meld one form of printing with another and even a press sporting an eye-catching, 6-foot-wide crank wheel that, over the past quarter-century, at least one artist has probably stood behind and suddenly felt compelled to lapse into his or her Long John Silver impersonation. -more-

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The Yellowjackets began their second league match of the season as an underdog on Friday, hosting rival Amador Valley at San Pablo Park in Berkeley. The ’Jackets, who missed out on a month of preseason practice due to the rain, managed to plough over this obstacle with a 12-2 victory over the Dons. The game was halted in the bottom of the fifth by the umpires, due to a 10-run “mercy rule.” -more-

By Rob Cunningham -more-

Any coach will tell you that, in team sports, you’re only as strong as your weakest link. The San Ramon boys tennis team learned that lesson on Friday afternoon at the Berkeley High tennis courts, winning the top two singles spots, but still falling to the notoriously deep Yellowjackets, 7-2. -more-

Daily Planet Staff -more-

The Berkeley High girls lacrosse team gets its second shot of the season at league rival St. Ignatius, in an 11 a.m. matchup this morning at the BHS football field. -more-

The X-Plicit Players, perhaps best known for performing nude, are holding auditions and open rehearsals for new members. -more-