SF News Berkeley Has Bay Area's Largest Wealth Gap, Say Numbers With all the 99% vs. 1% talk flying around these days, it is important to keep a local perspective on these kinds of things. For today's perspective, the Bay Citizen offers:
SF News Massive Fire Displaces Dozens, Destroys Historic Sequoia Building In Berkeley A huge blaze, which has been described as the largest in the area since the Berkeley/Oakland Hills fire in 1991, burned inside the historic 39-unit Sequoias apartment building at Haste and
SF News Occupy Oakland and Occupy Cal to Merge in 'Carnivalesque' Union After Monday morning's Occupy Oakland raid dismantled the encampment at Frank Ogawa Plaza, the noted East Bay protesters, now without a headquarters, will merge with Occupy UC Berkeley protesters today. According
SF News Video: Police Beat UC Berkeley Students at Occupy Cal Rally [UPDATED] During a budding Occupy Berkeley demonstration Wednesday at the UC Berkeley campus, police charged at a group of protesting students before retreating. As the cops attacked the kids, the group chanted, "Stop
SF News Three Female UC Berkeley Students Grabbed, Robbed Berkeley police are looking for three suspects in the mugging and inappropriate touching of three female UC Berkeley students. The incident occurred on Monday night on Oxford Lane when a black SUV approached
SF News 3.6 Earthquake Hits Berkeley Following Thursday's small quake, another slight yet significant earthquake rattled the East Bay at 5:36 this morning, centered in Berkeley. This was the latest tremor to hit the Hayward fault
SF News 3.8 Aftershock Hits Berkeley Another jolting quake hit the Bay Area Thursday night, coming in at 8:16. Did you feel that one, too? This one measured 4.1 3.9 3.8. And it looks like
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Artist Contributes 'New Yorker' Cover With Evil Wall Street Theme Berkeley-based artist Eric Drooker painted this lovely-but-ominous cover, which he submitted to The New Yorker about a year ago, but only this week did the magazine decide it was thematically
Arts & Entertainment 'I Want to Come Back in My Next Life as Darren Criss,' Says Jane Lynch Jane Lynch was the guest of honor at Fall Free for All, the season-opening celebration for Cal Performances, this past Sunday. While speaking to a (rapt) audience, Lynch said, "If I
Arts & Entertainment Cal Men's Water Polo Team Plays McCovey Cove While the Cal Bears football team was busy trouncing Presbyterian 63 to 12 in AT&T Park this past Saturday (and bringing Jeff Tedford his 75th career win in the process), alumni
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meanwhile, in Berkeley: Alice Waters Groupies Act Unruly, Get in Trouble Berkeley police were called to the scene on Saturday when a motley assortment of Berkeley residents gathered for a 40th anniversary of Chez Panisse at the Cheese Board Collective next door. At 10pm,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meanwhile, In Berkeley... Amalia Mourad, an 18-year-old UC Berkeley student, hawks baked good on Solano Avenue in order to pay for tuition. According to Berkeleyside, "She takes out a $12,000 subsidized loan
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, In Berkeley... Tech / coffee / flowery-license plate love on the other side of the Bay.
SF News Two Ladies Bring 4-Month-Old Along During East Bay Crime Spree Raven Stewart, 26, and Lache Rodriguez, 24, were arrested on Friday in connection with a series of car burglaries in Emeryville and Berkeley. They are suspected in at least five smash and grabs,
Arts & Entertainment Portishead Coming to Berkeley The grating '90s revival continues at fullblast with a not-so-grating '90s band coming to town. "British downtempo" group Portishead just announced their first North American tour in
Arts & Entertainment Adele Cancels Tour Due to Illness British singer Adele, scheduled to perform at the Greek Theatre at U.C. Berkeley on Saturday, June 4, has canceled the North American leg of her tour. Citing laryngitis, Adele explains on her
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, in Berkeley... Friend of SFist, Kate, picked up this awesome pastel drawing on a sidewalk in Berkeley the other day, which features the intriguing headline, "Vicodin Pool Party." Kate hopes to return the
SF News Meanwhile, In Berkeley: Paw Fund to Help Pets of the Homeless Berkeleyside effortlessly tugs our heart strings today with a story about Paw Fund, a clinic for pets of homeless people started by Jill Posener, a photographer and onetime Animal Care Commissioner. Behold: In
SF News Man Barricades Himself Inside Berkeley Home The fuzz have closed down parts of a Berkeley neighborhood this morning after a man barricaded himself inside a home at around 7 a.m. The standoff is happening in the area of
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, in Berkeley... Our friends over at Curbed hipped us to these (ahem) Lawn Chairs on the campus of UC Berkeley. Twitterer Javier Panzar, who snapped the photo out on Sproul Plaza, rightly calls them "
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meanwhile, In Berkeley... A vegan (duh) Caramel Chocolate Chip bun from Cinnaholic (2132 Oxford). Photo by Gina Guillotine.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meanwhile, In Berkeley... Breakfast hedonism at Sunnyside Cafe in Berkeley.
SF News Meanwhile, In Berkeley: Hunger Strike Day 8 Did you know that several students at UC Berkeley are once again in the midst of a hunger strike? True. This time they're protesting the erosion of the school's
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, In Berkeley... Yes, it's in San Francisco, but it's going... back to Berkeley. (Photo credit: DavityDave)
SF News UC Berkeley Doctor Accused Of Sexually Assaulting Students Dr. Robert Martin Kevess, 53, has been charged with sexually assaulting six male students. He had been working at the University of California at Berkeley's Tang Center for almost 22 years
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