SF News Berkeley Florist Remains Bitter That It Can't Do Curbside Sales While Whole Foods Sells Flowers Next Door The sense of unfairness among small retail business owners around the Bay Area has been growing as the initial virus panic fades, and after eight weeks in which big-box retail stores and grocers like Walmart and Whole Foods have been allowed to remain open, often selling "non-essential" goods.
SF News Berkeley Police Release Name and Mugshot of 'Armed and Dangerous' Hit-and-Run Driver The driver in a fatal hit-and-run collision on University Avenue in Berkeley last Monday remains at large, and Berkeley police now say they've identified the suspect thanks to tips from the public.
SF News Berkeley Campus Braces For Potential Protest Chaos As Ann Coulter Arrives Conservative opportunist Ann Coulter has landed in the Bay Area for a speaking engagement at UC Berkeley — making good on her promise to set foot in the home of the Free Speech Movement, albeit two years late.
SF News Four People In Guy Fawkes Masks Arrested After Scaring Families At West Sonoma Self-Help Retreat Four freaky souls with an apparent vendetta against the Berkeley-based Center for Applied Rationality (CFAR) donned Guy Fawkes masks and hooded robes as they blockaded the entrance to a Sonoma retreat venue the group was using for an alumni weekend on Friday.
Arts & Entertainment Controversial Protester Sculpture By I-80 In Berkeley To Be Removed A couple of large sculptures installed by the pedestrian bridge at University Avenue over the I-80 freeway are set for removal — not because they're ugly, but because the Berkeley arts commission has said they aren't weathering well and they will cost too much repair and maintain.
SF News Drug Overdoses At Berkeley Bathhouse Leave One Dead and One Hospitalized One man is dead and another was seriously injured following apparent drug overdoses Friday at the gay bathhouse Steamworks in Berkeley.
SF News 50,000 Lose Power in Berkeley, Richmond, and Elsewhere In East Bay A PG&E equipment failure is being blamed for a Sunday morning power outage that affected around 50,000 customers.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alice Waters Says 'Gourmet Ghetto' Name Ought to Go Finally joining the fray in a debate about whether the North Shattuck neighborhood of Berkeley — longtime home of Chez Panisse and the Cheese Board Collective — should continue to be nicknamed the "Gourmet Ghetto," Alice Waters agrees with the young folk: the name needs to go.
SF News Disgraced Oakland Bakery Attorney Would Like To Practice Law Again, Thank You The Berkeley lawyer who who smuggled her client’s ‘hit list’ out of prison insists the whole thing was a misunderstanding, and asks the State Bar for reinstatement.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Berkeley To Try Offering Loaner Metal Coffee Cups To Reduce Waste The city of Berkeley is going to be testing out a program in which reusable coffee cups are loaned out through an app-based service and then returned like library books, in order to reduce paper waste.
SF News Berkeley Updates Its City Code To Remove The Words 'She', 'He', 'Manhole,' and 'Fireman' At its weekly meeting Tuesday, the Berkeley City Council voted to revise its municipal code to remove all gender-specific pronouns, and to use more inclusive, non-patriarchal language for terms like "manhole" and "manpower."
SF News 50 Years Ago Today, The Battle For Berkeley's People's Park Became 'Bloody Thursday' May 15 marks the 50th anniversary of the infamous street battle between local law enforcement and unarmed UC Berkeley students over People's Park which left one man dead and over 100 people injured.
SF News A Brief History of Berkeley's People's Park, Born 50 Years Ago Today On April 20, 1969, a group of activists, Berkeley residents, and idealistic Cal students took it upon themselves to take a blighted, empty lot next to the university campus and turn it into a public park.
SF News Berkeley Engineer Enters Not Guilty Plea In Bizarre Poisoning Case 34-year-old David Xu, a senior materials engineer and an alum of UC Berkeley, appeared in an Alameda County courtroom Thursday to enter a plea in a case in which he's accused of systematically poisoning a co-worker.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Berkeley Engineer Charged In Poisoning Case The person who died in the early Sunday crash on Cesar Chavez was a 31-year-old woman, CVS is closing two more SF stores, and a Southwest flight out of Oakland had to make an emergency landing.
SF News Berkeley's Revolution Books Targeted By Right-Wing Protesters Yet Again Berkeley's Revolution Books once again found itself targeted by right-wing protesters Sunday evening during their "100th Anniversary of Russian Revolution" talk and slide show event. According to the
SF News National Park Service Nixes Black Panther Homage Amid Conservative Backlash In the latest chapter of right-leaning newsgroups and placing a high value on disrupting the proceedings of Berkeley, California, the Chronicle reports that an almost-$100,000 grant from the National Park
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two Sisters Team Opens New Berkeley Wine Bar, Les Arceaux Fans of the now shuttered Two Sisters Bar & Books in Hayes Valley can rest assured that they can still find a bit of that magic across the Bay, in the form of
SF News Berkeley Homeless Encampment Near BART Tracks Cleared Out, While Here/There Encampment Stays Residents of the "Here/There" homeless encampment in Berkeley are celebrating today as they were granted a temporary reprieve by a judge, who blocked an attempt by BART police to evict
SF News Berkeley Student Paper In Hot Water Over Arguably Anti-Semitic Cartoon Of Alan Dershowitz U. Cal Berkeley chancellor condemns antisemitic cartoon attacking Alan Dershowitz in student newspaper. https://t.co/SFocUOZ6Zs — Jeremy Burton (@BurtonJM) October 25, 2017 There's long been a tension in left-wing
SF News Kyle 'Based Stickman' Chapman's Car Vandalized In Berkeley, He Blames Antifa One of the Antifa Terrorist left a big clear hand print on the window of my suv. Berekley CSU is pulling the print now. pic.twitter.com/XETAWM9NRt — Based Stickman (@BasedStickMan_) October 18,
SF News Video: Watch A Berkeley Fire Crew React As They Approach The Tubbs Fire In Its First Hours A video that puts in perspective the swiftness and vastness of the devastation that first responders encountered in the early hours of the wine country wildfires one week ago is this one, from
SF News Judge Tosses Berkeley College Republicans' Lawsuit Against School Lost in the mercurial leadup to and catastrophic flop of Berkeley’s late September “Free Speech Week” was the footnote that two conservative student organizations have had a lawsuit against UC Berkeley arguing
SF News Berkeley High School Investigates Racist, Offensive Student-Run Instagram Account Berkeley High School is currently investigating a student-owned Instagram account that shared racist, discriminatory images of BHS students. According to the Daily Californian, the account first drew the attention of one senior,
SF News Berkeley's Revolution Books Attacked By Right-Wing Group Multiple Times Some of the Refuse Fascism people ducked into Revolution Books followed by Trump supporters. pic.twitter.com/EZvfgO9GMv — Javier Panzar (@jpanzar) September 24, 2017 Though the Berkeley Patriot cancelled "Free Speech Week&
