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&
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
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
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
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."
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
SF News Sexual Predator On the Loose In Berkeley Police are warning women in Berkeley that an attacker in on the prowl near the UC Berkeley campus. So far three "college-aged" women have been attack just south of the
SF News Berkeley to Become Nuclear Zone Temporarily You know how Berkeley prides itself on, among other things, being a nuclear-free zone? Well, not so much these days. See, the Berkeley's city council voted today to let the
SF News Berkeley Counts First Murder of 2009 William Payton, 37, was shot on Jan. 11 over at the Bank of America parking lot at 2546 San Pablo Ave. in Berkeley. Yesterday, Payton died at Highland Hospital in Oakland. This makes
misc Tied Up, Burned Body Discovered in Berkeley Responding to a fire in Berkeley at 7 a.m. this morning, emergency crews found a dead, burned body at East Bay Parks land, west of I-80 between Gillman Street and University
SF News Entombed East Bay Body Identified Remember how Hassan Ben Ali committed suicide in front of Berkeley police last week? Then, after doing a search of Ali's Ashby Avenue apartment, the police found an entombed body at
SF News Code Pink Holds Farewell Kiss Shoe-In Protest in Berkeley Code Pink is having yet another Bush/war protest today. This time they're using the shoe -- made popular last week by Iraqi journalist Muntader al-Zaidi, who hurled his footwear at
SF News Hang Yoo for War Crimes, Shrieks Berkeley City Council Under the false impression that Melanie Morgan doesn't already have enough ammunition, the fruit-and-nut granola bar that is the Berkeley City Council will vote today on whether to demand
SF News Blogging Berkeley Grannny Sues US Army Jane Stillwater, a Berkelery blogger and Ghost Whisperer fan, is hopping mad. See, Stillwater is suing the US Army for a plane ticket and 15 mocha lattes because she had been given the
SF News Berkeley Tree-Sitters Sentenced Three of the privileged youths who protested the removal of the Berkeley oak grove were sentenced in Berkeley on Monday. Kingman Lim and Zachary RunningWolf Brown, both ground supporters, and Michael Schuck, a
SF News A Look at the Map and List of National Prop 8 Protests The above image -- showing just how large scale Saturday's national Prop 8 protest will look -- is from the flyer used to promote the big event. All of the demonstrations start at
SF News BREAKING NEWS: Fire Burning in Tilden Park 10-acre grass fire burning in Tilden Park over in Berkeley right now. So, you know, stay out of the park. (Not that you will since it's raining right now, but
SF News Film du Jour: Karl Rove Knows How to Handle a Woman You read about scary man Rove's appearance at Moscone Center at the annual Mortgage Bankers' Association. You know, where the Gorgeous Ladies of Code Pink tried taking him downtown? Now
SF News Tree-Sitters Hurling Toilet Waste at Arborists? Charming. The spoiled children high atop the Berkeley redwood have, of course, resorted to (allegedly) throwing their urine and fecal matter at arborists trying to get them down. (Yeah. Fight the power. Idiots.
SF News Cal Tree-Sitter Money Shot Expected Today Whether pro or con saving the oak tree grove on the UCB campus, it's safe to say that we're all looking forward to seeing just how how the last
SF News Sit Down for This: UC/Berkeley Has a Fashion Publication Christine Borden over at the Daily Clog has both word and a VIP invite to the launch of BARE, UC Berkeley’s fashion publication. Also, holy hell, Cal has a fashion rag! Yeah,
misc Bomb Scare at Bayer Building in Berkeley Berkeley police responded to a menacing looking suitcase sitting in front of a Bayer AG-owned building on Seventh Street between Dwight and Parker. Jackson West informs us that said drug company has
SF News Naked Woman Stops Traffic on I-80 A disrobed lady disrupted traffic this morning on I-80 at around 5:45 a.m. It seems that the fully naked female was running in and out of traffic willy-nilly on
SF News Tree Sitters Lose Yet Another Round More time is being wasted over in Berkeley over those damn oak trees. This time the Berkeley City Council voted last night that they it "will not seek a stay of a
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