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News Pix: Bay Area Faces Sequester Cuts, Bay Lights Magic and Birds of Berkeley's Marina

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PhotoWeek130301baylightsArtist Leo Villareal controls the Bay Lights with his laptop. (Cy Musiker/KQED)

PhotoWeek130301shorebirdsOn Wednesday, author and photographer Elaine Miller Bond captured this shot of "hundreds, probably thousands, of seabirds (mostly cormorants) sitting on the old pilings at the far end of the Berkeley Pier." A reader suggested they were on a herring run. (Elaine Miller Bond/Berkeleyside)

PhotoWeek130301chineseNYCrowds swarm Grant Street in San Francisco's Chinatown to celebrate Chinese New Year on Saturday, Feb 23. (Jason Winshell/SF Public Press)

PhotoWeek130301airporttowerThe air traffic control tower at San Carlos Airport could close as part of federal budget cuts related to the sequester. (Scott Shafer/KQED)

PhotoWeek130301warblerThe protester known as "Warbler" watches a Caltrans truck from her perch 71 feet up a Ponderosa pine near the Mendocino County town of Willits. Warbler, who has been tree-sitting for more than a month, is protesting Caltrans' plan to build a bypass for U.S. 101. Critics says the project will have dire environmental consequences. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)

PhotoWeek130301blackhistoryA new black history museum at Woodside Plaza in Redwood City features 11,000 square feet of history and memorabilia. (Kate Abbott/Peninsula Press)

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PhotoWeek130301kimchiKimchi, pickles--and Korean food in general--are hot right now in the East Bay, not least at FuseBOX, a popular spot in West Oakland run by chef Sunhui Chang and his partner Ellen Chang. Here Sunhui makes kimchi by hand. (Anna Mindess/Berkeleyside)

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