Arts & Entertainment Lots of People Were Assigned Berkeley as Their Spotify Wrapped 'Sound Town,' But Also San Luis Obispo? Why? The annual flurry of Spotify Wrapped year-end lists and genre leanings dropped last week, and like your zodiac chart, these categorizations have come to mean something for multiple generations who rely on Spotify for most of their music.
SF News Berkeley Advocates for Homeless Up In Arms Over Roped-Off ‘For Customers Only’ Section at BART Plaza A very Berkeley story out of Berkeley this week, as a little restaurant plaza outside the BART station has roped off one area with signage saying “For Customers Only,” and advocates for the homeless population are furious over the move.
SF News Berkeley Woman Arrested for Child Endangerment After One-Year-Old Hospitalized for Meth Exposure A drug test of a toddler experiencing a medical emergency revealed meth in their system, allegedly left out by the baby's caretaker in their home.
SF News Tenderloin Drug Dealer Busted In Berkeley Takes Plea Deal In Federal Case, Could Face 20 Years to Life One of three individuals arrested in a drug bust in Berkeley last November has pleaded guilty to six federal counts of drug possession and intent to distribute, and could face a lengthy prison term.
SF News Anderson Cooper Spots Berkeley Native Being Held Hostage by Hamas In Video We at least have a confirmed sighting of Berkeley native Hersh Goldberg-Polin still alive after being taken hostage by Hamas in Israel, as CNN’s Anderson Cooper realized he had video footage of Goldberg-Polin in captivity while he was interviewing the hostage’s parents.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trumer Opening Its First US Taproom In Berkeley, With an Oktoberfest Grand Opening on October 7 The 400-year-old Austrian beer Trumer Pils is opening its first-ever US taproom in Berkeley next weekend, and celebrating with an Oktoberfest party that will feature some of their other Bavarian-inspired lagers (and costume contests).
SF News Berkeley's Famed 'Hot Tub House' Hits Market For $899K It was a year ago last week that we learned of the death of Deward Hastings, a man whose name was not widely known but whose property has been visited by thousands of in-the-know East Bay residents for nearly 50 years.
SF News Woman Fatally Stabbed In Berkeley Hills Home, Reportedly By Her Son A 60-year-old woman was stabbed in an apparent family conflict at a Berkeley hills home on Saturday, and two other people were injured in the attack, which police say was not random.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cellarmaker Brewing Co. Opens New Berkeley Beer Garden, Oakland Taproom Coming Next Month The Detroit-style pizza and craft beer of Cellarmaker is making its way to the East Bay, as the brewer recently opened its Berkeley beer garden, and its anticipated Oakland brewery and taproom is coming next month.
SF News Talk of Redeveloping Golden Gate Fields Has Already Begun Following Monday's announcement that 80-year-old East Bay racetrack Golden Gate Fields plans to shut down racing for good this fall, the talk has already begun about could be done with the 140-acre property.
SF News Another Bay Area Movie Theater Closes, This Time the 88-Year-Old Albany Twin We’ve seen this movie many times before as theaters try to emerge from the pandemic slump, but this one's truly the end of an era, as the 88-year-old Albany Twin theater on Solano Avenue suddenly closed permanently on Thursday.
SF News Former KTVU Anchor Frank Somerville Arrested Again In Alleged Intoxicated Incidents In Berkeley The sad, all-too-public unraveling of former KTVU anchor Frank Somerville appears to be continuing, as he was arrested not once but twice overnight in Berkeley, both times outside a home where his brother lives.
SF News State Assembly Passes Bill To Undo ‘People As Pollution’ Ruling That Halted People's Park Development After a February appeals court ruling stopped the development of UC Berkeley’s controversial People’s Park housing complex, East Bay Assemblymember Buffy Wicks has a bill cruising through Sacramento that could reverse that decision.
SF News Now Berkeley and UC Berkeley Are Talking Name Change Over Namesake’s Problematic History 18th-century philosopher George Berkeley, who it turns out owned slaves and wrote pro-slavery pamphlets, may spur the latest renaming crusade, as both UC Berkeley and the city of Berkeley delicately consider a possible renaming.
SF News Berkeley Gets Burned as Federal Appeals Court Overturns Berkeley’s Natural Gas Ban The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned Berkeley’s ban on natural gas in new construction, which could have national repercussions as other cities consider phasing out natural gas stoves, furnaces, and water heaters.
SF News 78-Year-Old Berkeley Woman Fends Off Deplorable Teen With Stick In Mugging Attempt A 78-year-old woman who was out walking her dog last Friday in Berkeley managed to knock a gun — what turned out to be a BB gun — out of the hand of a 16-year-old who was allegedly trying to rob her.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Boichik Bagels Rolls Open Its New Factory (With Dining Space!) In Berkeley If it’s Boichik Bagels, you know there’s going to be plenty of hype and long lines involved, and that’s what happened at 7:30 a.m. in Berkeley Friday morning as the runaway blockbuster bagel brand opened its 18,000-square-foot production plant and cafe.
SF News Photos: Very Good Berkeley Falcon Dad Brings Food for Chicks, Even Though They’re Not Hatched Yet Celebrity Berkeley celebrity falcon Annie’s new mate Lou has shown another gesture of unusually attentive fatherhood, bringing the hatchlings food, even though they’re still not hatched and can’t eat it yet.
SF News More People’s Park Drama, As Appeals Court Again Blocks UC Berkeley’s $312 Million Housing Project The rabble-rousers and CEQA appellants have won another round in their attempts to thwart an 1,100-unit housing development at the site of Berkeley’s People’s Park, as the First District Appellate Court has hit the brakes on the project again.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bay Area's Latest Pizza Pop-Up, From a Chez Panisse Alum, Makes Appearances at Berkeley Wineries The newest wood-fired pizzas to be had in the East Bay are being cooked in an oven mounted on the bed of a pickup truck, and they can only be found on select dates outside of a couple of Berkeley wineries.
SF News East Bay Bike Party Marred By Alleged Multiple Instances of Car-Dooring, Two Injured A half-dozen or more separate incidents of cars allegeldy dooring bicyclists took place in the lead-up to and the wake of Friday’s East Bay Bike party, and the bicyclists say 14 of them were targeted, and at least two suffered serious injuries.
SF News Deplorable Teens Rob UC Berkeley Student Via Tinder App Hookup A group of deplorable teens allegedly conducted a home-invasion robbery on Monday at the home of a UC Berkeley student using Tinder, and the ruse of a hookup with a 19-year-old girl.
SF News Downtown Berkeley’s Last Remaining Movie Theater, the Regal UA, Is Closing Pour another one out for another movie theater biting the dust, as the Regal UA on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley is closing. There’s no closing date announced, but it looks like their lease will expire February 15.
SF News Turmoil in Berkeley, As Interim Police Chief Has Old Sexual Misconduct Allegations Surface A five-year-old sexual misconduct allegation has roiled the appointment of interim Police Chief Jennifer Louis into the position permanently, and city council has plenty of questions on why this information never surfaced.
SF News Three Arrests Made in Early October Berkeley Dormitory Shooting That Killed Religion Student After an October 8 fatal shooting at a Berkeley dorm left 29-year-old Isamaeli Eli Mataafa dead and three of his relatives injured, Berkeley police have arrested and detained three suspects in the case.
