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The It List: Five things to do this weekend, Feb. 8-9
Diving into the lives of plants at UC Botanical Garden, grooving with the Electric Squeezebox Orchestra, or enjoying photos and 'photo haigas' in a café: just three of our weekend activity picks.
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UC Botanical Garden in Berkeley will reopen July 14
Beginning July 14, members of the garden will have exclusive access for one week, from noon to 5 p.m., followed by a general reopening to the public on July 22.
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Hungry deer, shrinking ponds, speeding golf balls: the drought’s toll around...
Strawberry Creek and the city’s trees are doing OK, but Lake Anza is unswimmable, turtles are getting run over by cars and wild pigs may be moving in.
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‘Civic trauma’ of pandemic brings East Bay arts community together
A new coalition of East Bay arts organizations is making joint funding requests of Alameda County and cooperating on a regional “return to the arts” campaign.
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‘Botanical Entanglements’ opens Saturday at UC Botanical Garden
Berkeley artist Juniper Harrower explores our complicated history with flora in the new ecological art exhibition.
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2 UC Berkeley trees over age 150 were damaged in last week’s storms
At the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden, part of a redwood sheared off and flattened a buckeye.
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Squished newts are drowning at bottom of leaky UC Botanical Garden pond
The garden is trying to raise $150,000 to seal the 80-year-old pond’s cracks, which the newts are getting stuck in, plug sinkholes and resurface the basin.
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Newts are safe in tanks as UC Botanical Garden patches the bottom of the pond...
Newts were getting lodged in holes at the bottom of the leaky Japanese Pool and were unable to surface for air. They'll be returned to the pond once it's repaired.
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Around Berkeley: Indigenous Peoples Day Powwow, pumpkin patch, music at the...
Other events include a First Friday Block Party at Gilman District, a free community day at BAMPFA and a plant sale at the Botanic Garden at Tilden.
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A glass dome? A pedestrian bridge? UC Botanical Garden dreams big
A $40 million visitor center with a glass atrium and a bridge linking the main garden to the Redwood Grove are among the ideas floated in a new long-range plan.
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Around Berkeley: Parties for reading comics and listening to unreleased Green...
Other events include a new exhibition at Alma Rise Gallery, an Electric Squeezebox Orchestra concert and another Werner Herzog film.
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UC Berkeley Botanical Garden’s Tropical House reopens after $2.3M renovation
After being closed for four years, the long-awaited opening of the 50-year-old greenhouse will take place this weekend, showcasing exotic, rare and endangered tropical plants.
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