SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Berkeley Restaurant Removes Signature Portobello Fritters From Menu, Diners Revolt At Rivoli in Berkeley, there have been some portobello mushroom fritters on the menu that were introduced by chef-owner Wendy Brucker back in the '90s that became a signature of the restaurant. They're
SF News Dry Rot Confirmed As Cause Of Fatal Balcony Collapse In Berkeley Berkeley building inspectors have determined that water seepage and dry rot were to blame for the balcony collapse that took the lives of six young people last week, five of them on J1
Arts & Entertainment You Can Own Whoopi Goldberg's Long-Ago Berkeley Home For $1.275M Actor and comedian Whoopi Goldberg, n&233;e Caryn Johnson, did some of her first work as a performer in Berkeley in the 1970s, and it was there after she had her
SF News Berkeley Balcony Contractor Has Paid Millions In Lawsuits Over Other Balconies The shoddy balcony that collapsed under the weight of thirteen people early Tuesday morning in Berkeley was the work of an East Bay construction firm that already paid $6.5 million in a
SF News Deadly Berkeley Balcony May Have Been 'Decorative' Only The Berkeley apartment building balcony that collapsed, killing six and injuring seven others, may not have been built to support so many people. A former zoning board member who was part of a
SF News UPDATE: 6 Killed In Berkeley Balcony Collapse, 7 Injured Authorities say that five people have died after a fourth floor apartment balcony collapsed early this morning. At least eight others were injured, and "Many of the injured have critical, life-threatening wounds." Update:
SF News Video: Herding Goats In The Berkeley Hills Everyone knows that goats are the new cats, which is to say, they're the most popular creatures to be found on the Internet. They can also be found, it would seem, in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink NYT Food Writer Mark Bittman Launches Video Series About California For the last couple of years, New York Times food columnist Mark Bittman has been having an extended love affair with California, and with the Bay Area in particular. It seems like he
SF News Why Is Berkeley Installing Cash Donation Boxes To Support The Homeless? A very Berkeley initiative approved by the Berkeley City Council called The Positive Change program aims to make giving to resources for the homeless as easy as it is to give to them
SF News SF Now Has The Highest Minimum Wage In The Country Today's the day San Francisco catches up with Oakland! As of Friday, SF's minimum wage rises from 11.05 to $12.25 an hour, which means the city now joins Oakland as having
SF News W. Kamau Bell Will Discuss Incident of 'Implicit Bias' With Berkeley Cafe Owner This Friday Back in January, local comedian W. Kamau Bell wrote a lengthy tale of a frustrating, unfortunate incident that happened to him outside the Elmwood Cafe, a place he and his wife like to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Bar Guys From Tonic & Bullitt To Reopen Spats In Berkeley This Spring Two bar owners who just can't seem to get their fill of opening new bars, Ben Bleiman and Duncan Ley, are adding to their ever-growing portfolio once again, taking over the lease at
SF News (NSFV) Two Severed Boars' Heads Found On Berkeley Streets This post is not safe for vegetarians (and vegans). The first boar's head, blood-covered with dangling skin, was found yesterday. Today a second was discovered. No, this isn't Westeros or Middle Earth. It's
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Berkeley Tiki Hut Edition For this week's edition of Apartment Sadness, I take you across the Bay where someone is renting out an "in-law" that is more accurately described as a "tool shed in the backyard with
SF News One Dead In Berkeley Shooting Possibly Tied To Marijuana Robbery In what the Chronicle reports may have been a robbery involving medical marijuana in Berkeley last night, one man was killed with a shotgun and a woman was injured. The events took place
SF News Day Around The Bay: Singing Frogs San Francisco has a love-hate relationship with the Pacific chorus frog. [BayNature] This video takes you on a tour of opening night at Chris Cosentino's Cockscomb. [Eater] The Street Sheet got a redesign
SF News Fourth Night Of Protests Includes Trash Fires, BART Disruptions, Five-Hour March From Berkeley To Downtown Oakland In the fourth consecutive such rally in a row for Berkeley, protesters took to the streets Tuesday night for a lengthy, mostly peaceful march that extended many miles from Berkeley to downtown Oakland
SF News Another Large Protest In Berkeley Shuts Down Freeway, 150 Arrested Following on a violent and chaotic Saturday and Sunday in Berkeley where at least 400 people were protesting police violence against unarmed civilians, about 1000 to 1500 protesters gathered again on Monday to
SF News [UPDATES] Saturday Night's Berkeley Protest Ends In Tear Gas In the latest local protest in a national movement for police accountability in the killing of black Americans, over 400 protestors marched for five hours Saturday night along Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley. Police
SF News Day Around the Bay: A Cell Phone Thief's Selfie Fail A dumb dude who stole someone's iPhone in Stockton is apparently unaware of the whole cloud concept he's been shooting lots of selfies, which the owner of the stolen phone now has access
SF News Anonymous Letter Alleges Third Sexual Assault at Berkeley Frat After two reports of sexual assault at UC Berkeley fraternities in as many months, a third attack has allegedly occurred, reports ABC 7. Campus police received an anonymous letter describing the alleged incident,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Longtime Berkeley Bar Spats, Shuttered For Five Years, May Reopen This Fall UC Berkeley alums and longtime Berkeley residents know the legend of Spats, the dusty but homey Shattuck Avenue bar (known as Oleg's back in the 70s), which has always been a bizarre, sprawling
SF News 'Watch This' Said Berkeley Bus Rider Before Randomly Stabbing Woman A 25-year-old skateboarder is being applauded by Berkeley Police after intervening during a terrifying random stabbing on an AC Transit bus. According to a press release sent by Berkeley Police, at around 9:
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink All-Paleo Restaurant Coming To Berkeley Later This Summer A couple of Paleo Diet-loving caterers, Yrmis Barroeta and Bobby Chang, are opening their first restaurant in Berkeley in September, and it will serve those "bulletproof" lattes with butter in place of milk.
SF News Oakland Home Sales Prices Growing Far Faster Than San Francisco's While the median home sales price for the city of Oakland is far lower than many of its neighboring areas, it might not be that way for long: an analysis of MLS data
