SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pioneering Diner Proprietor Bette Kroening, Of Bette's Oceanview Diner, Dies At 71 The Bay Area's food world lost another of its most pioneering generation last week as we learn of the passing of Bette Kroening, owner and constant presence at Berkeley's Bette's Oceanview Diner. She
SF News Alt-Right March Planned In Berkeley March 4 This should go well! A gathering of "patriots" who support "free speech" will be descending on Berkeley on March 4 to show all those silly liberals what America really looks like. The already
SF News [Update] UC Berkeley Cancels Breitbart Editor Milo Yiannopoulos Event Amid Protests, Trump Pens Angry Tweet Orders have been given for crowd to disperse after violent protests force cancellation of #MiloYiannopoulos event at #UCBerkeley pic.twitter.com/3IMQ34TP1a— KTVU (@KTVU) February 2, 2017 An event hosted by the Berkeley
SF News State Senator From Berkeley Demands To See Melania Trump's Immigration Documents California state senator Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) makes a good point: If we already know that First Lady Melania Trump worked in this country illegally when she first arrived here from Slovenia in 1996,
SF News Berkeley Couple's Death Linked To Carbon Monoxide, Possibly From Laser Cutter Or 3D Printer The mystery of the deaths of two people and their two cats in a Berkeley home last week has been preliminarily solved, and the cause appears to have indeed been carbon monoxide poisoning
SF News Tideline, The Chariot Of Ferries, Launches Commuter Service Between SF, Berkeley, and Richmond Much the way private shuttle buses like Chariot have been invading San Francisco for several years and providing more comfortable alternatives for the Muni-averse, a new public/private ferry service has just launched
SF News Two People, Two Cats Mysteriously Dead In Berkeley Apartment, Carbon Monoxide Leak Ruled Out #BREAKING Berkeley Police say suspicious:2 people (approx. 30's), 2 cats found dead in Deakin St. unit of 4-plex bldg pic.twitter.com/Z5BPB8j2Qw— Jana Katsuyama (@JanaKTVU) January 24, 2017 There were no
Arts & Entertainment Recently Discovered Children's Story Written By Mark Twain To Be Published This Fall Sifting through the Mark Twain Papers and Project at UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library, one scholar struck literary gold, or at least enough raw material to turn into something of value: A set of
Arts & Entertainment Radiohead Announces Two April Shows At Berkeley's Greek Theatre Breaking news: In addition to headlining Coachella this year, Radiohead has decided to swing back through the Bay Area for the second year in a row, i between their Coachella weekends, performing two
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Super Duper Announces SFO, East Bay, And Upcoming International Locations Fast on the heels of the news that Super Duper Burgers is getting ready to double the size of its original Castro location something that the Planning Commission just approved last week the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Boot & Shoe Service Bringing Its Wood-Fired Pizza To Berkeley Berkeley fans of wood-fired pizza can rejoice today as news breaks that the man behind Oakland's very popular Boot & Shoe Service and Pizzaiolo is expanding his offerings to the north. Berkeleyside reports
Arts & Entertainment Video: Carrie Fisher's Berkeley Rep Show Remembered In Interview In 2008, the late Carrie Fisher told local news station ABC7 that she was "a better writer than an actor," before demonstrating her way with words by joking that people always told her
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Berkeley's 20-Year-Old Cafe Rouge Calls It Quits The next in the annual series of end-of-year surprise closures is 20-year-old butchery haven Cafe Rouge, opened by Zuni alum Marsha McBride in 1996. McBride tells the Mercury News, in a familiar refrain
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley's Shotgun Players Enter Full Repertory Cycle, With New Plays Each Night Of The Week Shotgun Players opened their ambitious 25th anniversary season this spring with a decidedly ambitious approach to Hamlet seven actors have their names randomly drawn each night, each having memorized most of the show's
SF News San Francisco Bay Area Mourns, Immediately Protests Trump Victory Some of us are going to default to being quiet and trying to stay in a dark room with pillows and Netflix/Amazon/Xfinity access for the next few weeks as the only
SF News Berkeley High School Water Polo Player Accused Of Mid-Game Sexual Assault A Bay Area participant in the notoriously brutal sport of water polo was accused of crossing the line separating gamesmanship from assault last month, to the point that police have launched an investigation
SF News UC Berkeley Fraternity, Sorority Parties On Hold Following Reports Of Sexual Assault There will be none of the usual tailgates on frat row today before UC Berkeley takes on Oregon in football this weekend: Following two reports of sexual assaults at separate off-campus fraternity events
SF News Police Investigating Two Reported Sexual Assaults At Berkeley Frats Last Weekend Two female Berkeley students reported that they were sexually assaulted over the weekend according to separate UCPD crime alerts released on Monday morning and reported on by the Daily Californian. One alert indicated
SF News Dope! Amoeba Music In Berkeley Can Now Sell Pot Amoeba Music's jazz section at their Berkeley location has a new focus: jazz cigarettes. The location has received its license to sell medical marijuana as a city-sanctioned dispensary, which it plans to place
SF News As California Executions Hang In The Balance, Man Convicted Of Oakland Sleepover Murder Sentenced To Death Even as the future of California's death penalty hangs on two November ballot measures, a judge ruled Wednesday that the man convicted of a high-profile double murder in the East Bay should be
SF News Berkeley Passes Resolution Banning Dog-Eating Festival... In China Oliver, rescued from Yulin, China Dog Meat Festival, appears at Berkeley City Council #berkmtg pic.twitter.com/KwDFYniUnU— Tom Lochner (@tomlochner) September 21, 2016 Tuesday's meeting of the Berkeley City Council featured a
SF News Berkeley Police Chief Michael Meehan Resigns, The Third Bay Area Police Chief To So In Four Months We're getting breaking news via KTVU that Berkeley Police Chief Michael Meehan has resigned, and Captain Andrew Greenwood is now going to be serving as Acting Chief. Meehan, who came to Berkeley after
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Animal Rights Activists Storm Chez Panisse In Very Berkeley Protest At the end of August, animals rights group Direct Action Everywhere took up their cause at Eat Drink SF, a San Francisco food festival organized by the Golden Gate Restaurant Association. While animal
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Berkeley Synthetic Milk Startup Says They've Found The 'Whey' To Make Good Vegan Cheese The race to find the hot new milk — the one cool coffee shops start serving, the one protective parents insist their children only drink — can sometimes feel as heated a contest as, I
SF News Study: Berkeley Sugary Drink Tax Led To 21% Decrease In Soda Consumption Among Low-Income Residents A first-in-the-nation tax on sugar-sweetened beverages (of just a penny per ounce) was having its intended effect a mere four months after implementation in Berkeley according to a study published in The American
