SF News East Bay Blotter It is now illegal in the state of California to steal free newspapers, as reported in the Berkeley Daily Planet, itself, familiar with the issue. Berkeley Mayor, Tom Bates, was happy that the
SF News East Bay News First, the quick and dirty: the Oakland Tribune reports: one dead, two injured, 3 alarm fire at a 6 story residential hotel in downtown Oakland early Friday morning . In the Berkeley Daily Planet,
Arts & Entertainment Shh -- Don't Tell Any of the Shakespeare Festivals ...but Shakespeare was a fraud. Or at least that's how the Bard conspiracy theorists would have it. And Berkeley's Central Works Theatre Company's current production, (apparently that's pronounced "Loney," lest we get something