Don't trust anyone over 30, unless it's Jack Weinberg
WEBApr 6, 2000 · The man who coined the phrase “Don’t trust anyone over 30” turned 60 years old Tuesday. Jack Weinberg uttered the phrase – which became one of the most memorable expressions of the turbulent 1960s era – during the height of the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley.
Famed Deaf Sculptor Died 75 Years Ago in Berkeley
WEBAug 3, 2010 · Famed Deaf Sculptor Died 75 Years Ago in Berkeley. Tilden in 1903, when he was near the height of his success and popularity. Tilden’s “Football Players” on the Cal campus is the oldest piece of permanent outdoor sculpture on the University grounds. Thirty years ago Tilden’s “Bear Hunt” statue was plucked by a crane from the ...
Life before Vaccines: Growing up in the 1930s and 40s
WEBAug 30, 2019 · The East Bay's Non-commercial Voice. Medical science has profoundly changed our lives. I am sure that I would not have survived to this old age without antibiotics, advances in epidemiology and surgery.
Try La Loma Park for Baseball and More - Berkeley Daily Planet
WEBAug 21, 2008 · A stone quarry was built at the mouth of Codornices Creek in the 19th century. In 1962 the site was filled in and leveled and two additional properties were purchased from private owners in 1966 and 1967. The baseball field was added in 1967, and the upper terraces were developed in 1969-1970. On Nov. 1, …
Local News and Opinion from The Berkeley Daily Planet
WEBSunday, September 8, 2024: From 10 am – 5 pm is the Solano Stroll with Solano closed to traffic. Monday, September 9, 2024: At 2:30 pm the Agenda and Rules Committee meets in the hybrid format. At 4:30 pm City Council meets in closed session in the hybrid format. At 6:30 pm the Police Accountability Board has a community input meeting on the ...
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WEBAug 8, 2013 · In the early hours of June 18, Michael Hastings was found dead in the flaming wreckage of his car. The 33-year-old journalist was, perhaps, best known for the 2010 Rolling Stone cover story that ended the career of Army General Stanley McChystal. According to initial press reports, Hastings was driving south on Los Angeles' North Highland Avenue when he "apparently lost control of [his car ...
Robert McAfee Brown, leader of liberation theology movement …
WEBSep 8, 2001 · The East Bay's Non-commercial Voice. PALO ALTO, (AP) — Robert McAfee Brown, a Presbyterian theologian who bridged tensions between Protestants and Catholics and became one of the best-known advocates of …
Features - Berkeley Daily Planet
WEBSep 26, 2002 · The East Bay's Non-commercial Voice. OAKLAND — A couple accused of abducting, raping and murdering a 22-year-old Pleasanton woman in a minivan rigged for torture was sentenced to death Wednesday.
Berkeley's Campanile has a connection to Renaissance Venice
WEBSep 21, 2002 · Did a beautiful Berkeley landmark rise in part because an Italian landmark fell? It’s speculation, but an interesting possibility. The Berkeley landmark is our famous bell tower, the Sather Campanile, designed by John Galen Howard and completed in 1914 as a centerpiece for the UC Berkeley campus.
Home & Garden Columns - Berkeley Daily Planet
WEBJan 23, 2007 · The East Bay's Non-commercial Voice. If Chez Panisse were to serve up a menu to match its guardian bunya-bunya, it would include roast haunch of free-range sauropod and a salad of braised organic tree ferns.