SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Pollan Questions Peoples' Gluten Hate In New Netflix Series Berkeley resident and slow-food guru Michael Pollan took on the topic of cooking in his 2013 book Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation a second follow-up to his runaway bestseller The Omnivore's Dilemma,
SF News Techies Spending $4K A Pop On 'Rationality' Seminars That Sound Vaguely Culty It's time for a bunch of self-proclaimed "rationalists" — a group of mostly technologists in their 20s — to start acting like it and stop paying the Berkeley-based Center For Applied Rationality. I say this
SF News Life-Size Bronze Statue Of UC Berkeley Crew Coach Stolen From Boathouse A collegiate caper took place this week sometime between the hours of 11 p.m. Tuesday night and 7 a.m. Wednesday morning, during which a 300-pound life-size statue of onetime UC Berkeley
SF News BART Service Disrupted After Severed Foot Discovered On The Tracks An East Bay BART station was closed for about an hour this morning, after a gruesome discovery was made: A human foot, lying on the tracks. BART spokesperson Jim Allison says that the
SF News Stray Bullet Strikes East Bay Elementary School Teacher In The Neck A Berkeley elementary school teacher remains in critical condition after she was shot in the neck Saturday, struck by a stray bullet as she drove down the Richmond street on her way to
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Rep's Renovated Thrust Stage Getting Named After Peet's Coffee Berkeley Repertory Theater has been undergoing a major renovation project in their original, three-quarter round Thrust Stage space, which is set to be unveiled to the public with a grand opening celebration on
SF News Berkeley Wine Shop Sued For Massive International Fraud A Berkeley wine store is being sued by a group of customers for running some sort of wine pyramid scheme. The store, Premier Cru, apparently accepted wine orders totaling $5 million from overseas
SF News Berkeley City Council Approves Laws Targeting Homeless In a contentious public meeting that went well into the night, the City Council of Berkeley Tuesday passed a set of laws specifically designed to target the city's homeless population. The laws, which
SF News [Update] Facebook Shuts Down Berkeley 'White Student Union' Page, Hoax Introduced By Outsiders A Facebook group that listed itself as a "safe space for white students," as if Berkeley itself were not that space, has been the talk of campus at Cal since this weekend. Update:
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cafe Gratitude Closing Its Last Bay Area Location In Berkeley After years of simultaneously serving organic vegan dinners and allegedly indoctrinating staff into a creepy cult, Cafe Gratitude is closing its Berkeley location marking a final exit from the Bay Area where they
SF News Mushrooms Were Growing On Rotting Berkeley Balcony Before Fatal Collapse, According To 13 New Lawsuits In the case of the Berkeley balcony collapse that killed six college-aged Irish exchange students in June when a structure that may have been only "decorative" broke and fell four stories ABC7 now
SF News Berkeley High School Student Confesses To Leaving Racist Threat On Library Computer Yesterday was marked by protest and student walk-outs at Berkeley High School in response to racist threats invoking the KKK and lynching that were left to be seen on a library computer. “Fuck
SF News Berkeley High School Students Protest After Racist Threat Found On Library Computer BLACK LIVES MATTER 💯💯🅱 @berkeleyside BERKELEY HIGH TAKING A STAND pic.twitter.com/uZ1HlblfR3— DOOSKIWORLD❄️ (@tkeepittrill) November 5, 2015 Students at Berkeley High School today staged a walk-out and rally in protest of a
SF News Up To 5,000 People Riot Near UC Berkeley Campus Overnight Thousands of partiers and college students took to the streets in Berkeley near the Cal campus on Saturday night and early Sunday morning as Halloween revelry devolved into a massive riot. Hundreds gathered
SF News Notable UC Berkeley Professor Resigns Amid Sexual Harassment Claims University of California Berkeley astronomy professor Geoff Marcy resigned today, after a six-month internal university investigation found that he had repeatedly sexually harassed numerous students over the course of years. The investigation, which
SF News Videos: Intelligent Stanford, Berkeley Professors Win MacArthur Grants "One day I want to see my basic research fundamentally change the way people live in the future," says Peidong Yang, an inorganic chemist who is creating "synthetic leaves" that could represent a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink AT&T Park Bartender Orders Pizza, Gets Delivered Huge Wad Of Cash Instead My favorite story: guy orders #Dominos wings and gets a box full of cash. What would you do? Watch at 11pm #abc7now pic.twitter.com/uzHYLDZTQ6— Natasha Zouves ABC7 (@NatashaABC7) September 20, 2015
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink In Total Bay Area Move, Food Writer Mark Bittman Leaves NYT For Food Startup When in Rome, do as the Romans do. When in San Francisco, eat well and try to get hired by an early stage startup. That's of course what Mark Bittman's done, revealing in
SF News 4.0 Magnitude Earthquake Gets The Bay Area's Monday Going Good morning, Bay Area! That's what the Hayward Fault appeared to be saying, as it rocked those of us who were lingering in bed out of it with a 4.0 magnitude quake
Arts & Entertainment Stinking 'Corpse Flower' Blooms For One Day In Berkeley, People Flock To Sniff Stench Over at the UC Botanical Garden in Berkeley, a rare Indonesian "corpse flower" specimen that's been blooming every three to four years began spreading its ghastly bloom on Saturday night, and was available
SF News Citing 'Structural Damage' Berkeley Indefinitely Closes Historic Pier Due to “considerable structural damage,” the city of Berkeley has announced the indefinite closure of its 89-year-old historic municipal fishing pier. Berkeleyside, the Chronicle, and others report that the pier has been closed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Berkeley's Pyramid Alehouse Shuts Down After 18 Years Fans of the big, indoor-outdoor Pyramid Alehouse brewpub in deepest Berkeley will be sad this week to learn that the place has abruptly shut down. As the East Bay Express reports, the brewery
Arts & Entertainment Frances McDormand Coming To Berkeley Rep Next Season In <em>Macbeth</em> Oscar winner and all around terrific actress and person Frances McDormand will be starring as Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's dark and murderous Macbeth, next season at Berkeley Rep. The addition to the 2015-2016
SF News Pleasanton Construction Firm Denied Access To Evidence In Berkeley Balcony Case; Erin Brockovich Joins Fight Against Them The story of the tragic collapse of that balcony on June 16 in Berkeley proceeds on, and as it turns out, the Pleasanton-based company Segue Construction that built the arguably faulty balconies on
SF News Day Around The Bay: This Weekend Will Be Very Trafficky A new proposal would slash stolen car towing fees for auto theft victims in SF. (Under current law, victims have 20 minutes to come claim their car wherever police find it, or pay
