SF News UC Berkeley Professor Discusses Oil Spill on <em>60 Minutes</em> UC Berkeley professor Dr. Robert Bea is an expert in off-shore oil rig accidents, and he was asked by the White House last week to analyze the BP disaster in the Gulf. As
SF News No End to Cal Hunger Strike In lieu of getting ready for graduation, some UC Berkeley students are starving themselves in an effort to get Chancellor Robert Birgeneau to "publicly denounce a recent Arizona immigration law," reports The Daily
misc Meanwhile, In Berkeley... CAL Men's Water Polo Team, who swim "in support of ballot Measure C -- a bond measure to save, rehab and improve Berkeley's city pools." You can sponsor them (and why wouldn't you?
SF News Video: Girl Arrested During UC Berkeley Riot Presumably moments before last night's rally / dance party flash mob at UC Berkeley, sparked by cranky tuition-hike protesters, gained momentum, this student protester was swallowed up by riot police. According to the this
SF News Drunk Protestors Invade UC Berkeley Building, Spill Out Into Streets In another nod to their Boomer parents, a gang of tuition-hike protesters at Berkeley turned their political act into a rowdy party last night, invading a building that's under renovation with spray-paint cans,
SF News Cal Starts Quidditch League, Dorkiness Ensues Last Thursday, the fledgling UC Berkeley Quidditch League held its first try outs for a new quidditch team at Cal. For those who have either spent the last decade in a vegetative state
SF News Bill Clinton Coming to UC Berkeley Former US President Bill Clinton will come to UC Berkeley on Feb 24 in an event sponsored by the Blum Center for Developing Economies. The Daily Cal reports: "Preparations to have Clinton come
SF News Fee Increase Protest Prompts UCLA Students to Take Over Building During a UC Regents meeting, students reportedly "stormed" and "took over" a building at UCLA on Wednesday. SF Chronicle reports that the "[s]tudents, furious at the increase that will bring their yearly
SF News Mother of Cal's 'Naked Guy' Gets $1M in Wrongful Death Lawsuit The man who gained national fame in the early 90s for attending classes at U.C. Berkeley wearing nothing but a G-string, Luis Andrew Martinez a.k.a. The Naked Guy, met his
SF News Tree Sitters Lose Yet Another Round More time is being wasted over in Berkeley over those damn oak trees. This time the Berkeley City Council voted last night that they it "will not seek a stay of a judge's
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 new, right?
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 yoga
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 prove the project
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 at police
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 put
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 on
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 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] Frozen yogurt
SF News UPDATE: Greenpeace and UC Berkeley Students to Hold the Most Disgusting Protest Ever Tomorrow Deep breath. Wow. Jesus. Okay, here we go: Well, it seems that Greanpeace and UC Berkeley student organizers will host an, um, "Toilet-Trees" event on Sproul Plaza on the UCB campus tomorrow, Thursday,
SF News It's Got to be the Protest After The decision, however, did not come without much in the way of mayhem. Four protesters were arrested, one of them for allegedly bitch-slapping a pig cop, another for busting out a knife (which
SF News East Bay To Get Even Louder Tonight Anti-war fans, pro-war zealots, '60s fetishists, barely-legal Marines, the unshowered, and young college students trying to impress their boyfriends will be out in full force on the other side of the Bay later
SF News UC Berkeley Music Professor Hit, Killed By BART Car Jorge Liderman, 50, music theory and composition professor at UC Berkeley, died on Sunday after being hit by a BART car at El Cerrito Plaza. At around 9:30 a.m., it seems,
misc Hayes Valley, Maybe? So what can we look forward to at 55 Laguna? Plans for the property include a community center, retail space (specifically non-chain retail, as noted by CurbedSF), 428 units of affordable housing --
misc Stellar Science Fiction Reading: io9 Rejoice, space believers! For there is finally - yes, finally! - someplace you can go on l'Internet to read about such sci-fi-ness (excuse us, "science fiction-ness" for all of you purists) ranging from
misc Week Around the -Ists Torontoist discovered their city's most ridiculous holiday lights setup, with 80,000 lights and two––two!––synchronized music routines. Naturally, they snagged a video. Chicago tragically loses one of its most recognizable neighborhood
