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berkeleyside.org | Nathan Dalton |Zac Farber
The Claremont, the 276-room luxury hotel at the foot of the Berkeley Hills, has changed hands for at least the 10th time in its 110-year-history — and the fifth since 2007. After a decade of operation under the Fairmont flag, management of the property passed to HEI Hotels + Resorts in February, two years after the hotel was sold to Ohana Real Estate Investors by the estate of Richard Blum, the husband of Sen. Dianne Feinstein. The hotel’s official name has changed to the Claremont Resort & Club.
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berkeleyside.org | Bill Berkowitz |Zac Farber
Arnold Passman, known to friends as Arnie, died on Tuesday, April 8, at the Vale Medical Center in San Pablo. He was 88. He would’ve preferred to announce the news himself … but his time ran out. Born in Chicago on May 22, 1936, Arnie was a word maven, a poet, a prolific punster and a writer. His book The Deejays: How the Tribal Chieftains of Radio Got to Where They’re At, published in 1971, examined the influence of radio disc jockeys on popular culture.
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berkeleyside.org | Adam Echelman |Zac Farber
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. In 2023, Berkeley City College librarian Heather Dodge started to notice something odd about the students who took her online research course. To connect with students and make the class more engaging, Dodge said she always began the course by asking students to submit a video introducing themselves using their webcam or an iPhone.
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2 weeks ago |
berkeleyside.org | Zac Farber
As members of the Berkeley Law faculty, we are honored to teach and to study the principles of law and constitutional democracy. We are writing today in our individual capacities to express our concern about current threats to the rule of law and what they mean for our shared enterprise of the study and practice of law in a democratic legal system.
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berkeleyside.org | Nathan Dalton |Zac Farber
Find out which stores have opened, closed or moved and what’s new in Berkeley’s nonprofit, retail and small-business communities. If you have updates to share, send an email to [email protected]. Closed ElmwoodAfter eight years selling artisan-made goods, including clothing, jewelry, handbags and kitchenware, Palm + Perkins closed its College Avenue shop on March 21.
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