SF News Cyclist Killed Trying To Cross Freeway In Berkeley Jarring news out of Berkeley this weekend. A cyclist attempting to cross I-80 early Saturday morning was struck and killed by a passing vehicle. The accident happened at around 4:30 am. "The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chez Panisse Reopening Delayed Again; Opening Night Starts At $1,000 A Plate Local foodinistas have been eagerly awaiting the rebirth of Chez Panisse from the ashes of the small but destructive electrical fire the restaurant suffered on March 8. It was initially announced that the
Arts & Entertainment Video: Naked Run At UC Berkeley [NSFW] A gaggle of young adults peeled off their clothing for the semesterly Naked Run last week at UC Berkeley. Lots of jiggling breasts and male bits can be seen in this video, so:
SF News Video: Homeless Berkeley Hippies Attack Stanley Roberts A pair of dreadlock-sporting vagrants in Berkeley attacked noted KRON 4 reporter (and SFist favorite) Stanley Roberts this week while he was doing a segment outside Amoeba Music on Telegraph Avenue. The journalist,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meanwhile, In Berkeley: Joyce Carol Oates Eats Bad Vegan Meal In late breaking Berkeley dining news, Joyce Carol Oates (author of some of the greatest American works of our time) read Berkeley restaurant Venus to filth last night, Tweeting: "Second & last near-inedible
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chez Panisse Delays Reopening Looking dismayed in this Contra Costa article today, Alice Waters tells us that, sadly, the re-opening of Chez Panisse will be delayed. As we reported last Friday, parts of the Shattuck Avenue mainstay
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alice Waters' Iconic Chez Panisse Damaged In Fire Early Friday morning, a fire broke out at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Alice Waters' noted temple of organic, locally-grown food. Fire crews responded to the scene on Shattuck Avenue around 3 a.m.
SF News Wild Turkeys Terrorizing Albany Now The Wild Turkeys of Berkeley, which we first heard about last year but which seem to have been proliferating for several years now, have moved in to Albany. As CBS 5 is reporting,
SF News Face-Punching Teen Girl Gang Terrorizes Berkeley Women Three teenage girls are wanted by UC police in Berkeley after they assaulted two women on Dwight Way and Prospect Streets near a residential part of the UC Berkeley campus. The Oakland Tribune
SF News Berkeley Teacher Busted For DUI, LSD After Leaving Grateful Dead Bar What was that about all California drivers being on drugs? 51-year-old Berkeley High School teacher Douglas Haight (seriously?) lost his job and teaching credentials after a December DUI arrest turned up a bottle
SF News Berkeley Pot Dispensary Reopens In New Location After Fed Shutdown As the quiet war rages on between the Justice Department and the medical marijuana community in California, one casualty of the recent crackdown has turned out to still have some life left in
SF News UC Berkeley Third Most Dangerous College In America Once famous as a hotbed of dangerous political thought and fashion statements, now UC Berkeley is just plain dangerous, or so says Business Insider. The news site ranked colleges in the U.S.
SF News Berkeley's Sit/Lie Measure Fails Berkeley's Measure S, the liberal city's sit/lie measure that would've barred sitting on sidewalks in commercial areas between of 7 a.m. and 10 p.m., tanked by a slim margin last
SF News UC Berkeley Fraternity's Halloween Decor Deemed Not Cool A UC Berkeley fraternity is under fire for misguided haunted house decor left literally hanging outside their frat house on Halloween. Theta Delta Chi thought it would be a good idea to feature
SF News UC Berkeley Cop Shoots Self In Leg See, this is something we would do if (God save us all) we held a job as a uniformed police officer. Early this morning, A UC Berkeley cop shot himself in the leg
SF News Berkeley On The Fence About Official Bisexual Day Bisexuals are often shunned (and often altogether disbelieved) by their straight and queer counterparts. Which is why, in part, Berkeley wants to make September 23 the city's official Bisexual Day. The City Council
Arts & Entertainment Gallery: Special Delivery's Massive Street Art Museum Endless Canvas' warehouse-turned-graffiti gallery opened last weekend and the hordes of street art aficionados and photographers we on hand at the Carbon Warehouse (formerly the Flint Ink factory) at 4th and Gilman in
Arts & Entertainment Regarding Michael Chabon's New Oakland-Set Novel, <em>Telegraph Avenue</em> We haven't yet had the time to read it ourselves, but the reviews are coming in for Michael Chabon's new novel Telegraph Avenue, which is set in 2004 in Oakland but which reaches
SF News Artists Use Salvaged Solyndra Stuff in Artwork, Cause Right-Wing Media to Go Ballistic Everyone knows conservatives hate art. They especially hate contemporary art that was funded by any source other than one's parents' old money, especially if that source is the NEA. Well, a couple of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Get Free Grilled Cheese, UCB Students, At The Melt Tonight! Two things happen tonight in Berkeley involving grilled cheese. 1) The Melt in Berkeley will offer free grilled cheese sandwiches for UC Berkeley students only. You hear that, kids? Get your free basic
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Chevron's Smoke Scene from Indian Rock Park in Berkeley during the Chevron refinery fire, shot by Justin Casey.
SF News Schizophrenic Beat Poet Joins Berkeley Mayor's Race Over in the People's Republic of Berkeley, a well-regarded, Chomsky-endorsed beat poet with 13 books and one degree in engineering to his name has thrown his metaphorical hat in to the race to
SF News The State of Sit/Lie A new report reveals that the sit/lie ban that went into effect in 2011 has had negligible effects in Upper Haight, the area where it was meant to effect the most change.
SF News Berkeley Police Agencies Denied Hippie-Stomping Armored Vehicle Over in Berkeley, the University of California Police Department's plan to use homeland security funds to purchase an armor-plated, riot-squelching monster truck, has been shot down by city officials and school administrators. In
SF News Berkeley Police Agencies Want Hippie-Stomping Armored Vehicle After seeing those cool anti-protest riot vehicles in action at Occupy Oakland events this past year, the UCPD, Berkeley PD and Albany PD have acted on their riot squad envy and formed a
