Summer is a time for outdoor music and barbecues. Get your fix tomorrow from 2-7pm at the Farmers’ Market at Derby and MLK. From ribs and oysters to tofu and portobello mushrooms, they’ve got you covered.
I’ll be on the lookout for some free samples.
More info at The Ecology Center website.
The Metrics Gang, a group of doctoral candidates in economics at Berkeley, is establishing a reputation for combining economic concepts with real musical chops. Their latest effort, takes Jay-Z’s “99 Problems” and renders it as “99 Problems, Econometrics Ain’t One”.
Cathy Cockrell provides the complete scoop on The Metrics Gang.
How utterly disappointing. Just a couple of weeks after extolling the virtues of its plum sorbet, I have to report the disheartening news that Sketch, the gourmet ice-cream store on Fourth Street, is to close on July 26. [Hat tip: Eater SF.]
Owners Eric Shelton and Ruthie Planas say they are shutting up their first [business] baby in order to concentrate on their first real baby whose arrival is expected in about a month.
This from their website: “It’s been a great five years getting to know many of you (many by name, some by facial recognition, some by their consistent ordering patterns) and seeing many of your children grow from the womb on up to being able to see over the counter.”
They stress that Sketch isn’t disappearing, however, “just taking a ‘lil break from the retail aspect”. Their candies, pastries, sauces/fixins, ice cream cakes and other custom orders will be available online.
Add another vacant retail space to the growing number on Fourth Street.
Darn. I missed the double rainbow over Berkeley on Saturday.
Cathryn Hrudicka offered a lyrical tweet: “Still feeling enchanted by the double rainbow over the Bay Area last night, & the magical, rose & fuschia sky. Neighbors outside, entranced.”
Photo by lights 1 go from Flickr
If consumers don’t have to buy their own batteries, a new UC Berkeley study predicts, electric car sales could reach 86 percent of U.S. light vehicle sales in 2030. Consumers would still purchase the vehicles, but not the batteries. Instead, like cell phone plans, consumers would subscribe to pay-per-mile servies from companies like Better Place, which would own the batteries, offer charging stations and swap out batteries as needed to extend the driving range.
The study is to be release today, according to Reuters.
Update You can read the study from UC Berkeley’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology here.
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