Know why I love living in Berkeley? Because everyone this morning around town is wishing each other a Happy Winter Solstice.
It is, after all, the next holiday. And an obvious one, since children all over town are up well before dawn because the damned planet is conspiring to remind us how completely in control [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘berkeley’
19 December 2009
Tis the season. In Berkeley.
21 October 2009
Gee, I wonder where to live
Our dilemma:
Median Home Cost Seattle $422,190 Berkeley$660,500
Why?
Precipitation Days Seattle 155 Berkeley 64
Sunny Days Seattle 152 Berkeley 256
Graduate Degrees Seattle 17.19% Berkeley 34.02%
Oh.
Source: Sperling’s Best Places, which is good clean time wasting fun for [...]
28 July 2009
IJ quote of the day 26
“The most hated Incandenza film, a variable-length one called The Joke, had only a very brief theatrical release, and then only at the widely scattered last remains of the pre-InterLace public art-film theaters in art places like Cambridge MA and Berkeley CA” (397).
Having lived in both, I can tell you that audiences in each [...]
3 March 2009
When the world stops
Words fail me…a friend just posted a link on his facebook page about a boy he worked with…
Zachary Cruz was walking from kindergarten to his after-school program and was killed by a car.
His parents, grad students at Cal, have set up a memorial page. There’s a link to help defray their son’s funeral costs, and [...]
30 September 2008
Can’t we just live at The CheeseBoard?
The center of my sense of home and community is The CheeseBoard Collective on Shattuck. Living near there formed some of the most important pieces of who I am, and visiting now brings back a flood of revelations, realizations, and nine-plus-senses pleasures that make me happy to my core.
So I took Peanut there.
He’s been before, [...]
26 September 2008
Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings—-review, sort of
Let me begin with a caveat: I’m not a music critic. I’m not a professional reviewer or musician, and, quite frankly, don’t know what I’m talking about. But Counting Crows’ music has always had a place in my life, for various reasons, and my response to the new album is different than I expected. So [...]
