SF News Meanwhile, In Berkeley (via Austin, Texas)... Cal Berkeley's diving coach Todd Mulzet lands his dive while watched by an unknown spectator after diving off of the 10-meter platform to celebrate his team's 2011 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championship Saturday,
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, In Berkeley... "[Y]arn-bombing artist Streetcolor and her assistant went to work on the bike rack in front of the former Black Oak Books store on Shattuck Avenue," reports Berkeleyside. Indeed.
SF News Photo: Tsunami Makes Its Way To Emeryville Berkeley photographer Steven Winter (Dr Speed) sent Berkeleyside this astounding image of the tsunami making its way to Emeryville. Excellent work. Click to enlarge. [Berkeleyside]
SF News Woman Attacked On UC Berkeley Campus KRON 4 Morning News reported that, just this past Tuesday night, a woman was attack on the UC Berkeley campus. A man allegedly exposed himself to the victim. She walked away. He ran
SF News UCB Wheeler Hall Protesters Receive Misdemeanor Charges After 17 protesters were arrested last week during UC Berkeley's Wheeler Hall occupation, 14 were smacked with misdemeanor charges on Monday. "Eleven protesters were charged on a single count of trespassing by the
SF News Scenes from Wheeler Hall Protest at UC Berkeley After 17 protesters were arrested earlier this week over UC budget cuts, among other isues, eight demonstrators occupied a fourth-story ledge at UC Berkeley's Wheeler Hall. Riot police were called in to use
SF News 17 Protesters Arrested at UC Berkeley After Statewide Demonstration Against Cuts [Updated] After protesters refused to leave a UC Berkeley building, officers arrested 17 people who were demonstrating against budget cuts. Daily Cal reports: Following a day filled with rallies, marches and snacking that began
SF News UC Berkeley Sports Teams In Danger In an effort to save an estimated $4 million dollars, UC Berkeley may have to cut five sports teams, including baseball, lacrosse, men and women’s gymnastics, and rugby. Save Cal Sports has
SF News Arboreal Berkeley-ite Arrested After Knifing This one is just too good to let it go: UC Berkeley Police arrested one Matt Dodt of Berkeley yesterday after he attacked someone in his makeshift treehouse in People's Park. Dodt had
SF News Berkeley Plastic Bag Ban On Hold Get it? On hold? Anyway, a plan to ban plastic bags in the city of Berkeley faces serious delays after the Coalition to Save the Plastic Bag raised a stink. "A ban on
SF News Meanwhile, In Berkeley: City-Funded Sex Reassignment Surgery? On February 15, the Berkeley city council will vote whether or not to fund reassignment surgeries. The proposal would provide $20,000 per year. At a meeting last night regarding the planned vote,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chez Panisse To Serve 5,000 At Greek Theatre In today's Garchick, we learn that Chez Panisse, Berkeley's iconic joint for organic grub, plans on celebrating the big 4-0 in an even bigger way. Behold: "This year's holiday card from 'The Family
SF News UC Berkeley Cuts 150 Jobs Days after Gov. Jerry Brown proposed cutting $500 million from the UC system next year, UC Berkeley plans to prune 150 managers and support staff this year. This comes on top of the
misc Berkeley Barbarella "Beginning with something as simple as the various olives and continuing on, you’d take a bite and realize that never in your life had you ever experienced the particular flavor before. All
misc Meanwhile, in Berkeley: UC Tuition Riots Inspire Photography Course In a slow-week feature yesterday, the Chronicle detailed a one-credit, freshman seminar at UC Berkeley that strives to help students perfect the art of "Photographing History in the Making." Of course, we've all
SF News Berkeley McDonald's Robbed At Gunpoint Talk about your unhappy meals: An armed gunman sporting a ski mask "walked into a Berkeley MacDonald’s prior to its opening early Wednesday, locking employees in a freezer before dropping a trail
SF News Freed UCB Hostage Shourd's Song About Jailed Hiker Pals We had no idea that Sarah Shroud, former Iran hostage/UC Berkeley hiker, was so delightfully wacky. Take, for example, the song she just released about her ordeal. It's called "Piece of Time"
SF News Berkeley Police Search for Home Invasion, Rape Suspect Berkeley Police are searching for Omar Sosa, a man suspected of invading a home in North Berkeley and raping a teenaged girl. The hunt is now focused on Southern California, as Sosa is
misc Meanwhile, In Berkeley... Cal prepares for a big sporting match (football, we assume) against Stanford with illumination.
SF News Researchers from U.C. Berkeley Trap Antimatter, Universe Fails to Implode Researchers from U.C. Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley Labs were part of a team of scientists from CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) who reported yesterday that they had successfully created and
SF News The KPFA Morning Show Ends Bay Area baby boomers took a hit to the black felt beret this week after The KPFA Morning Show was yanked from the air. Why? Well, for starters, radio is a dying industry.
SF News Berkeley Student Faces Suspension for Fee-Hike Protests Laura Zelko, A UC Berkeley student who took part in protesting fee-hikes and campus layoffs last November is now facing a possible one-year suspension in a public disciplinary hearing which took place on
SF News Shooting Kills Berkeley High School Student A sad tale here, folks: Berkeley student Larry Malik Grayson, a 14-year-old Berkeley High School student who was shot in the head on last week, died on Thursday. He was shot by his
misc Trend Alert: Yarnbombing Recent sightings of yarnbombings across the Bay Area indicate that the long relationship San Francisco has enjoyed (or not, it's up to you really) with various forms of street art is taking a
SF News Meanwhile, In Berkeley... While the rest of the Bay Areacelebrated the World Series victory, earnest-college-students-who-get-arrested-in-dangerous-countries-while-traveling-abroad poster girl Sarah Shourd, right, held candles during a vigil for her hiker pals still jailed in Iran. Alas, what with
