Those poor UC Regents. All they wanted to do was knock down a few trees to build a new training facilityand for all this, they've been sued, had a bunch of people live in the trees , and saw Native Americans declare it a sacred site. Now they might be facing their most diabolical protest yet-- a work of community art. Oh, no, not community art. What's next, will the Dance Brigade stage an interpretive dance? ...

Stadium issues aren't just affecting Bay Area professional teams, but college teams too. There's a fight going on about renovating Cal's Memorial Stadium that's been going on for the past few months. And it's even taken an "Only in Berkeley" angle: to protest the planned cutting down of some Oak trees, activists went all Julia Butterfly Hill and camped out on them before the Big Game. ...

...and it's the special silver linings edition! We're mixing up the format a little and starting off with the East Bay Express. Why not? Bottom Feeder reports on a fight in a Contra Costa condo complex where one person tore out someone else's topiary duck. So Method and Red. Gay couples aren't sorry they demanded equal rights. Cover article: Julia Butterfly Hill (the chick who lived in a tree for two years) started her own......