SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meanwhile, In Berkeley... City Council Passes Ordinance Requiring Healthy Snacks In Grocery Checkout Lanes There may be a pandemic, a looming election nightmare like no other, a worsening climate crisis that made air in the Bay Area unhealthy for weeks on end, and seething tensions over violence by police against Black people, but over at the Berkeley City Council it's business as usual some weeks.
Arts & Entertainment Sorry Stoners, Oakland's Weed Scavenger Hunt Has Been Canceled [Updated] Update: After authorities stepped in, Saturday’s weed scavenger hunt in Oakland has been canceled. Organizers Bay Area Quest Hunt stated on its website that it was contacted by the City of Oakland/
SF News Berkeley Is Jumping On The Soda Tax Bandwagon [Updated] Update via Berkeleyside: The #BerkeleySodaTax is going onto the November ballot; passed unanimously #berkeley #berkmtg— Berkeleyside (@berkeleyside) July 2, 2014 Berkeley will likely join San Francisco in its push to tax surgery-drinks linked
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink All-Paleo Restaurant Coming To Berkeley Later This Summer A couple of Paleo Diet-loving caterers, Yrmis Barroeta and Bobby Chang, are opening their first restaurant in Berkeley in September, and it will serve those "bulletproof" lattes with butter in place of milk.
SF News Berkeley To Get Some Tall(ish) Buildings The Berkeley City Council is set to vote tomorrow night on a revised Downtown Area Plan that has been (*cough*) seven years in the making. Such long-range planning initiatives tend to come with
SF News Berkeley Councilman Challenges City's Nuclear-Free Zone Berkeley City Councilman Gordon Wozniak, who we realized recently after he called his colleagues' welcome mat for Guantanamo detainees just a load of political grandstanding to get on Fox News is kind of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meanwhile, In Berkeley... Amalia Mourad, an 18-year-old UC Berkeley student, hawks baked good on Solano Avenue in order to pay for tuition. According to Berkeleyside, "She takes out a $12,000 subsidized loan for the year,
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, In Berkeley... Tech / coffee / flowery-license plate love on the other side of the Bay.
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, in Berkeley... Friend of SFist, Kate, picked up this awesome pastel drawing on a sidewalk in Berkeley the other day, which features the intriguing headline, "Vicodin Pool Party." Kate hopes to return the poster to
SF News Meanwhile, In Berkeley: Paw Fund to Help Pets of the Homeless Berkeleyside effortlessly tugs our heart strings today with a story about Paw Fund, a clinic for pets of homeless people started by Jill Posener, a photographer and onetime Animal Care Commissioner. Behold: In
SF News Meanwhile, in Berkeley... A reminder on the campus of UC Berkeley that we've only got five days left until the billboard-predicted apocalypse. Couldn't it wait until after payday when we'll have more cash to spend on
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, in Berkeley... Our friends over at Curbed hipped us to these (ahem) Lawn Chairs on the campus of UC Berkeley. Twitterer Javier Panzar, who snapped the photo out on Sproul Plaza, rightly calls them "the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meanwhile, In Berkeley... A vegan (duh) Caramel Chocolate Chip bun from Cinnaholic (2132 Oxford). Photo by Gina Guillotine.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meanwhile, In Berkeley... Breakfast hedonism at Sunnyside Cafe in Berkeley.
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, In Berkeley... Yes, it's in San Francisco, but it's going... back to Berkeley. (Photo credit: DavityDave)
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, in Berkeley... Photographer Leah R. goes for the easy caption: "In Berkeley, our cars are THE GREENEST." Now the question remains: do homeowners in Berkeley opt for electric or gas-powered hedge clippers?
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, In Berkeley... Pete Cat snapped this shot of a gate in Berkeley used to crucify old mobile communication devices. Gruesome stuff.
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, In Berkeley... An abandoned house in Berkeley has something to say about hope.
SF News Meanwhile, In Berkeley (via Austin, Texas)... Cal Berkeley's diving coach Todd Mulzet lands his dive while watched by an unknown spectator after diving off of the 10-meter platform to celebrate his team's 2011 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championship Saturday,
SF News Meanwhile, In Berkeley: They're Opening Their Big Liberal Arms Wide for Guantanamo Detainees Continuing in their quest to become caricatures of themselves (anyone want to write a Portlandia-like spoof?), the Berkeley City Council is voting next week on another vanity resolution to invite any and all
SF News Meanwhile, In Berkeley: Justice Sonia Sotomayor Tours Around, Eats at Chez Panisse Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor paid a visit to the Bay Area yesterday and today, and apparently never left Berkeley. She seems to have been here to judge a mock court competition at
SF News Meanwhile, In Berkeley: City-Funded Sex Reassignment Surgery? On February 15, the Berkeley city council will vote whether or not to fund reassignment surgeries. The proposal would provide $20,000 per year. At a meeting last night regarding the planned vote,
SF News Meanwhile, in Berkeley: City Fills Community Pool With Mud Sadly, it's not an attempt to Go Green and replace those evil, chemical-ridden waters of community pools with something more natural. (Really, what child wouldn't enjoy a nice mineral bath in the hot
SF News Meanwhile, In Berkeley: The City Council Wants to Declare the WikiLeaker an American Hero So, Berkeley really enjoys getting under the craw of Fox News and their ilk, much like San Francisco does, but we'd like to think our Board of Supervisors would think twice before declaring
SF News Meanwhile, In Berkeley: KPFA's Al Jazeera Radio Tune in to Berkeley-based KPFA from 6 - 7 a.m. on weekdays for their new Al Jazeera English program. According to the Daily Clog, "[t]he show started broadcasting here and in
