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.
SF News Shooting Outside UC Berkeley Dorms Leaves One Dead, Four Injured There was a shooting early Saturday, following a busy Friday night of frat parties and activity on and off the UC Berkeley campus, that left four people injured and one dead — none of whom were students or affiliated with the school.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yet Again, A Celebrated Bay Area Chef Is Closing His Last Restaurant and Leaving the Industry The Kebabery, the latest business from chef Russell Moore and wife Allison Hopelain, is shutting down after five years and two pretty rough ones.
Arts & Entertainment Famed Owner of Semi-Secret Berkeley Backyard Hot Tub Dies While In Hot Tub The longtime proprietor of a free-to-the-public, extra-hot hot tub behind a home on Essex Street in Berkeley was found dead by a hot tub patron over the weekend, and it appears he died doing what he loved, soaking in the tub.
SF News A Violent Weekend at People's Park In Berkeley With a Hate-Crime Assault, Arson and More As Berkeley's People's Park continues to be occupied by homeless individuals and others, while the UC Regents pause a planned construction project at the site, there was a weekend of multiple violent incidents there.
SF News Activists Win This Round, Development Halted at Berkeley’s People's Park Until October Tents are already popping back up at People’s Park in Berkeley, and UC Berkeley must submit a legal filing today to prove that other sites were inadequate for a 16-story student housing project that they now can’t start building until October at the earliest.
SF News People’s Park Still Occupied, Sheriff Won’t Help Clear Park Because Berkeley Has Banned Tear Gas A very Berkeley problem in Berkeley, as protesters have occupied People's Park to halt a development project, but the Alameda County Sheriff's Department is refusing to help clear them out, because the city of Berkeley won’t let them use tear gas.
SF News [Update] More Bedlam in Berkeley, Protesters Retake People’s Park and Halt Construction After Park Was Fenced Off and Cleared A combination of surreal scenes in Berkeley, as protesters halt construction in People’s Park, after it was gated off and crews lopped down the park’s trees to make way for a 16-story housing project.
SF News Big Rig Driver Sought After Hit-and-Run Incident That Damaged I-80 Overpass In Berkeley A few big chunks of concrete were knocked off an I-80 overpass at Gilman Street in Berkeley Wednesday morning when a big-rig truck driver carrying an excavator plowed into it, and then took off.
SF News They’re Back — Indoor Mask Mandates Return to Berkeley Schools, In What May Be the Shape of Things to Come Hoping to just make it through the rest of the school year without further COVID catastrophes, Berkeley Unified School District puts the indoor mask mandate back on.
SF News Berkeley Sees Its Second Homicide of 2022, and It Was Staged to Look Like a Suicide A 20-year-old Berkeley man is in custody following the shooting death of his roommate on Tuesday, which police say happened in the course of an altercation in the home that was witnessed by the suspect's grandmother, who also lives there.
SF News UC Berkeley Saw Campus-Wide Lockdown Thursday Following Threat The school confirms that unspecified threats of violence were made, and says they were targeted toward specific individuals on campus, but the suspect has not yet been named.
SF News Male In Famous Berkeley Falcon Pair Found Dead, Bringing Tragic End to Five-Year Romance Ugh! It's just been one thing after another the past few months for the stable and enduring pair of peregrine falcons who claimed the much-watched nest atop the UC Berkeley Campanile tower. And now Grinnell, the male, was found dead in downtown Berkeley.
SF News Berkeley Tuolumne Camp Set to Reopen in June, Nine Years After Being Destroyed in Wildfire Just in time for its 100th anniversary, Berkeley Tuolumne Camp will reopen on June 4, nine years after the Rim Fire burned down the cabin site near Yosemite National Park.
SF News UC Berkeley May Be Granted Legislative Workaround for Enrollment Cap Fight Legislators in Sacramento are working to craft a quick solution to the University of California's legal battle with a citizens' group in Berkeley, in order that they may be able to admit 2,000 more students this month. And it entails a small revision to CEQA.
SF News After Winning UC Berkeley Enrollment Cap, Neighborhood Group Now Playing Games and Offering New Terms The NIMBY group Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods won a court battle and trimmed UC Berkeley’s enrollment by 3,000. Now they’re offering a new deal to cut it by only 2,000, but the school says ‘No thanks, we’ll keep fighting you.’
SF News UC Berkeley Loses Court Fight, Will Have to Cap Enrollment at 2020 Level The University of California just lost one of its appeals to the state Supreme Court, which means it will have to withhold around 5,000 acceptance letters that it was intending to send out to incoming first-year students in the next few weeks.
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Falcon Watchers In Delighted Shock as Annie the Peregrine Falcon Returns to Campanile The Berkeley falcon soap opera takes another twist! After a mysterious and totally uncharacteristic absence of over a week, Annie the peregrine falcon is back and getting ready to breed with Grinnell once again.
SF News Berkeley Yoga Instructor Fired For Helping Boyfriend Run Anti-Semitic Website The same group that spread “the COVID agenda is Jewish” flyers across the Bay Area is linked to a popular Berkeley yoga instructor, and her Jewish boss had to fire her amidst a growing public relations mess.
