SF News UC Berkeley Campus Evacuated After Explosion [Updated] UC Berkeley is being evacuated after an underground fire. pic.twitter.com/XDeuSiI52K — Joe Vazquez (@joenewsman) October 1, 2013 A power outage at UC Berkeley prefaced a major explosion on Monday night, resulting
SF News Berkeley High Pool Shut Down After Water Polo Players Lose Body Hair Yikes. The City of Berkeley is shutting down the pool at Berkeley High School after some water polo players began reporting some strange symptoms likely connected with the chemical levels in the pool,
Arts & Entertainment Audience Member At 'No Man's Land' Passes Out, Refuses To Go To Hospital Until He Sees The End An 80-year-old man who attended opening night of No Man's Land at Berkeley Rep on Sunday reportedly passed out with about 30 minutes left in the second act of
SF News Man Killed In Berkeley Hit and Run The University Avenue overpass near Interstate 80 in Berkeley was the site of a fatal early morning hit and run accident. At 5:10 a.m. this morning, a police officer encountered the
SF News Bart Strike: Scenes From A Public Transit Meltdown Today's BART strike, announced at midnight, snarled traffic and forced denizens into finding alternate routes. Trains were packed, buses, jammed, and lines grew long. Here are some images from today'
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Comal Owners Expanding With Second Berkeley Restaurant Comal, the upscaled Mexican concept in downtown Berkeley that's been wildly well received in its first year, is going to get a sister restaurant soon in Berkeley's Elmwood neighborhood.
SF News Boy Sexually Assaulted In Bathroom At Berkeley Marina Police are looking for a man who sexually assaulted a 10-year-old boy inside the Adventure Playground bathroom at 160 University Aveune on Tuesday. At around 1 pm, a the victim told
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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