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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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 "
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
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
