SF News No Matter What, Berkeley Tree Sitters Lose After a judge ruled that the University of California can cut down those cumbersome old oak trees, the kids still stuck up in the grove aren't coming down. What else is
SF News UC Workers On Strike UC workers, ranging from janitors to food service workers, walked off the job this morning at all University of California campuses and hospitals. According to CBS 5, the American Federation of State, County,
SF News Oak Groves Are the Least of Their Problems Seems that some guy (or different dudes?) have performed a couple of home invasions, resulting in burglary and sexual assault. With the weather being hot and bother-y, residents are advised not to
SF News Hans Reiser Leads Authorities to Wife's Body We put this in DATB, but it merits its own post because: Oh my, God!!!! Convicted killer/open source computer programmer Hans Reiser led police to the whereabouts of his wife Nina'
SF News Animal Rights Protesters Taunt UC-Berkeley Scientists Ah, finally a few UC Berkeley protesters who aren't selfishly and clinically insane. A few angry lads we could get behind. (That is, if we didn't love the taste
SF News Dumpster Muffin Down After nine months of living in the UC Berkeley oak groves, Dumpster Muffin (AKA Amanda Tierney) finally climbed down yesterday. Alas. The 21-year-old activist, according to ABC 7, was "having
SF News Godwin's Rule Squashes Effectiveness at Berkeley Anti-War Protest Saturday's woefully ineffective war protest in Berkeley looked like all sorts of fun! There were ladies sporting furry pink outfits, large signs with lots of small text making incomprehensible messages of
SF News Another Berkeley Tree-Sitter Arrested, Standoff Continues While police have tried to starve and cutoff supplies to the few remaining protesters up in the UCB oak grove, another tree-sitter was arrested yesterday afternoon at around 5 p.m. Performing
misc Sports Facility Plans Put On Hold, Trustifarians Feel Like They've Accomplished Something UCB's plans to mow down an oak grove and put up a sports training facility were put on hold. It seems a judge halted the plans until "the university can
SF News UC/Berkeley Uses Force to Oust Tree-Sitters The battle to save an oak grove on the UC-Berkeley campus turned even uglier yesterday. Protesters sang bizarre Native American-ish sounding songs (seriously, check this out) and threw buckets of urine
SF News Save the Oaks Protesters at UC/Berkeley Plucked? Five remaining tree climbers over at the University of California at Berkeley -- you know, the ones who have been protesting the school's plan to tear down the Memorial Oak Grove to
SF News Murder Near Top Dog A man was fatally shot near Top Dog hot dog dining establishment in Berkeley last night. According to the Oakland Tribune, "[t]he name of the man in his late 20s was
SF News It Really Makes You Think: UCB Celerates Nakba In a continued effort to fetishize the "game of chess" that is Palestinian/Israeli relations, UC Berkeley students staged a harrowing--harrowing!--border checkpoint commemorating the anniversary of the Nakba (i.
SF News SFist Blotter * Hey, did you know that most gunfire in SF (and everywhere else, we assume) goes unreported? It does. At least according to the Examiner, it doesn't. They report that ShotSpotter--that
SF News "Dramatic" Berkeley Suicide Car Crash Kills One An unidentified man killed himself this morning after running his car into parked cars at 80 mph at Yolo and the Alameda. Just before the fatal wreck, it seems, he was sitting in
misc 'We Hate You ____' Takes Off You know that movie we're not talking about whose marketing campaign sucks? The one that some fine folks of SF parodied on 24th Street? That we reported on over a week
misc Fun Flash Mob Friday Footage Yes, yes -- most of you are so over the whole flash mob thing. But for those of you who aren't jaded and bitter old turds, check out today's flash
misc Size Does Matter: Transbay Terminal Is So Big The Library Tower (AKA the U.S. Bank Tower) in Los Angeles could soon be the second tallest building west of the Mississippi thanks to San Francisco's proposed Transbay Terminal. While
misc Berkeley + <i>Daily Show</i> Segment = Hee In case you missed The Daily Show last night-- not that any member of the self-respecting Bay Area intelligentsia would dare to admit missing a second of sparkling political satire -- check out
SF News Day Around the Bay * For your viewing pleasure, more Pelli Clarke Pelli Transit Bay Terminal renderings -- now with birdies! [Curbed] * More memories. [WhatImSeeing] * Alt-Weekly Death Watch explains it all. Also: ouch. [AWDW] * Cyclists mourned. [SFGate] * Technical
Arts & Entertainment <i>Girls Rock! The Movie</i> Premieres Tonight at Embarcadero The film also opens at Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley today, with a grand opening event tomorrow morning at 10:30 a.m., featuring performances by campers As Ifs and Shattuck Cinemas' band
SF News Day Around the Bay * Kicking it at the Days-Inn on Lombard. [Butter Retriever] * Twitter explained in plain English. [Laughing Squid] * The very hot Tyler Florence to take over the very gay Plush Room. Intriguing. [Eater] * More
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight *FILM: The 5th Annual San Francisco Irish Film Festival kicks things off with by director Lenny Abrahamson and writer Mark O’Halloran. This is followed by a reception with the Consul General of
SF News Berkeley Sees Its Third Murder Of The Year An unidentified person was shot and killed on the 1600 block of Russell in Berkeley last night, brining the city's murder tally to three. (The much larger city of San Francisco,
SF News Day Around the Bay * Did you hear? Matt Gonzalez was in the news today. [SFBG] * Which seawall lot plan do you like best? [Curbed] * Set in SF, ABC's uses faux cable cars. The nerve! [SFGate]
