SF News Ahmadinejad Mentions Allah, Nuclear Weapons; Fails to Mention Detained UC Berkeley Grads At U.N. He says it was "a long-shot," but Berkeley professor Ken Light was hoping Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would take a moment out from invoking Allah and predicting the downfall of global capitalism at
misc Meanwhile, in Berkeley Socialist democratic republic of Berkeley birdhouses? Sounds about right.
SF News Cal Ranks No. 1 When It Comes to Public Schoolin' For the 75892432th year in a row, UC Berkeley was named the number-one university when it comes to undergraduate education at a public university. At least according to U.S. News & World
SF News Hackers Break Into Berkeley Journalism School's Server While j-schoolers at Cal are busy bemoaning the state of the Journalism and perfecting that well-worn journalist look (hint: spiral notepad, unkempt hair, elbow patches, lots of chin scratching), a hacker breached UC
SF News Detained Hikers In Iran Have Bay Area Ties Three hikers (Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Joshua Fattal) were captured by Iranian authorities last week, "after they strayed across the border while hiking in Northern Iraq in a tourist area." Two of
SF News Berkeley Daily Planet: "We Are SO Not Mean to the Homeless" You may recall this study that was released a couple weeks back by the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty in which San Francisco was named the 7th meanest city to the
SF News Two Sexual Assaults at Two Berkeley Homes A woman and a teenage girl were sexually assaulted in two separate incidents inside two Berkeley homes on Thursday morning. First, reported around 2:30 a.m. on the 2100 block of Cedar
SF News Two Children Shot Inside Berkeley Home A few days after a Vallejo toddler was shot while sleeping in her parents' bed, Berkeley played host to another kids-meet-gunfire incident. Two children aged 3 and 6 were shot inside their home
SF News Pedestrian Hit, Killed By Amtrak Train In Berkeley Following on the heels of this week's Caltrain suicides, "a pedestrian was struck and killed by an Amtrak train in Berkeley Thursday morning, the third person to be struck by a train in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Berkeley Bowl West Opening June 4th, Despite Neighbors' Protest For anyone who's ever shopped there -- be it noon on a Tuesday or 6 p.m. on payday -- Berkeley Bowl has pretty much always been a shitshow. Bulk granola-buying hippies elbow
SF News Baby Shaking Death Brings Berkeley 2009 Homicide Tally to 4 Lamar Franklin, 21, was charged with the shaking death of his infant son last week. According to reports, Berkeley police responded to a call around 4:40 p.m. on Friday regarding 'a
SF News SFist Blotter BERKELEY-OAKLAND/SATURDAY: Three people died after a murder and car chase through the East Bay Saturday night. "It all started at 6:35 p.m. when Berkeley Police responded to reports of gunfire
SF News Did You Feel It? A magnitude 3.0 earthquake, according to CBS 5, "has struck near Berkeley at 3:34. There are no immediate reports of damage or injuries." Tell us, readers, where were you during the
SF News Dalai Lama to Cause Traffic Nightmare On Saturday, the arrival of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, along with an Earth Day festival and "special farmer's market celebrating the elimination of plastic bags" (chortle), means that you'll want to stay
SF News TMZ's Harvey Levin Speaks at Cal's School of Journalism Inexplicably managing not to spray the room with gunfire or hurl himself out of the nearest open window, TMZ's Harvey Levin spoke to students enrolled at the "elite" Graduate School of Journalism at
SF News Thousands Line Up to Score Dalai Lama Tickets Thousands of students lined up in Berkeley on Wednesday to get tickets to see professional celebrity and sometime activist, the Dalai Lama, scheduled to appear April 25 at the Greek Theater. According to
SF News Berkeley Wins Solar Award Due to installing the "most solar systems per 1,000 citizens by any city in the Bay Area," the city of Berkeley has won a coveted the "City Solar Award" sponsored by NorCal
SF News Skirt Rally at Cal What with the "skirt creeper" attacking two more females over the weekend, the kids over at UC/Berkeley have decided to hold a skirt rally. According to Christine Borden at the Daily Clog,
SF News Have You Seen this Skirt-Chasing Sexual Predator? SFist's thinner, younger, and more attractive brethren over at UC-Berkeley want you to be on the lookout for this guy (at left) who has been sexually assaulting dames near Greek Row (or whatever
SF News Berkeley Sexual Predator Still At Large A sexual predator has stuck a 10 times in an area south of the University of California at Berkeley campus. In each reported incident, the suspect "approached the victim from behind, lifted her
SF News Berkeley's New Sculpture Includes Dogs Pooping, Fornicating, and Butt-sniffing Last year Berkeley paid realist artist Scott Donahue "$196,000 to install two sculptural groups at either end of a new pedestrian bridge across the freeway on the city’s waterfront." Donahue came
misc Film du Jour: Bollywood's 'Vaaranam Aayiram' The kids over at The Daily Clog bring to our attention this festive Bollywood film, Vaaranam Aayiram (2008), that was shot in Berkeley, the Cal campus, and San Francisco. While the English dubbing
