Berkeley News

The young volunteers who built a skate park below an Oakland freeway without Caltrans' approval picked up some powerful allies Wednesday in their effort to keep the state from demolishing the concrete ...2.7

When I was fresh out of high school, I took off on a pilgrimage to Berkeley, California, the punk rock mecca of the early '90s. While that was a hell of an adventure, my post-grad exploits ain't shit compared ...

Pizzaiolo's casual-but-hip setting is the perfect backdrop for wood-fired pizzas.

Promising a "major Bay Area expansion,'' City CarShare on Wednesday said that it has just opened vehicle rental locations at two BART stations, in Berkeley and Oakland.2.7

A Murder Is Announced -- The town of Chipping Cleghorn has been thrown into a tizzy by the announcement in the newspaper of a murder to be committed at 6:30 that evening at the home of two elderly ladies.2

Kirsty Melville has been named executive vice president and publisher of Andrew McMeel Publishing's book division, effective Sept.2.7

Avocados are plentiful and of great quality right now. Most of them will find their way into our salad bowls or will be mashed into guacamole, but they also make great soups.2.7

Delicate Intensity Olivia makes you feel at home. By Jonathan Kauffman Published: Wednesday, August 3, 2005 Chris Duffey A postminimalist approach that outsimples Chez Panisse.

BERKELEY, Calif. , Police say just before an Ivy League college student was fatally shot near the University of California campus here, she called a friend and told him to bring a gun , the same weapon that ...2.7

When members of Berkeley's Zoning Adjustments Board got their first "preview" of the process Thursday night, the encounter left many feeling somewhat bemused.

Tenants at an Oakland hotel catering to low-income residents filed suit Tuesday against their landlord, claiming mice infestations, cockroaches and bedbugs.2.7

As the fastest growing publisher of technical books, Apress is making several new titles and incentives available to the community as of today.2.7

Cooter calls the new "Dukes of Hazzard" movie a "sleazy insult" to the original series, but the film - starring Seann William Scott, Johnny Knoxville, Jessica Simpson and Burt Reynolds - probably will charm the ...2.7

A call for police to investigate a pair reportedly acting suspicious near a public storage facility shortly before 8 a.m. Friday led to the arrest of one of the pair for possession of burglary tools, said ...

Local and seasonal are buzzwords of today's food scene, but Bette Kroening hasn't known any other way to cook for nearly a quarter century.2.7

Dear Mick LaSalle: "Fantastic Four" may not be your cup of tea, but I have a complaint about your comment that the four are "from a civic perspective, fantastic nuisances." From your review, it sounds like ...2.7

Berkeley Iceland faces possible closure this month after city officials gave the rink until Aug.

Confusion was the big winner on the first day of electronic bingo at Casino San Pablo.2.7

The Contra Costa Times won a national newspaper award for its project that exposed public officials' reluctance to release information to the public, the Associated Press Managing Editors association announced ...2.7

He keeps it in his wallet, a wrinkled reminder of the night he stepped forward. Mike Tepper, 19, shifts his weight in his new wheelchair to fish his wallet out of his back pocket.2

Nothing in her life growing up in a military family living all over the West prepared Victoria Wise for Berkeley in the '60s. After four years of high school in Omaha, Neb., she landed smack in the middle of ...2

Prospective students and their parents are invited to an enrollment fair and barbecue today at a new college-preparatory charter school opening in the fall through partnership with University of California, ...2.7

Fans left cold by the vague end in May of NBC's family drama American Dreams, starring Tampa native Brittany Snow, will get some closure.2.7

Dave Allen describes himself somewhat poetically as a "finder of objects." But most of the objects he finds are far too large to hide in plain sight.2.1

BERKELEY, CALIF. , Luna, the whole nutrition bar for women, is introducing three new cookie flavors , Peanut Butter Cookie, Cookies 'n Cream Delight and Iced Oatmeal Raisin.2.7

SAN JOSE, CA.- Guest curated by Marcia Tanner, Brides of Frankenstein is an exhibition of experimental work by a new generation of female artists working with video, electronics, robotics, the Internet, ...2.9

Comparisons between the Berkeley flatlands and rural France don't force themselves upon the casual observer.

I began this series of columns with the story of a man who went back to his childhood home to find that his widowed father had been contemplating suicide.2.7

Rabbi Michael Lerner is stirring up trouble again - thank God. Earlier this week, Lerner was the main organizer of a national gathering in Berkeley, California, for the religious Left.2.7

Geoneutrinos, anti-electron neutrinos emanating from the earth, are expected to serve as a unique window into the interior of our planet, revealing information that is hidden from other probes.2.9

Every Holocaust story is unique, but Joe Pell's is so extraordinary it transcends the genre.2.7

California grape growers are aiming to create a no-fly zone for the glassy-winged sharpshooter threatening to decimate the industry, overwhelmingly agreeing to extend a tax dedicated to fighting the menace.

Pirates Without a Ship Hounded by the FCC, trumped by technology, stung by public apathy, the illegal micropower radio movement struggles for relevance.2.7

The Hershey Co. has announced an agreement to acquire Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker Inc.2.7

Several non-profit relief agencies working in the tsunami-affected regions around the Indian Ocean have documented the cataclysmic results in photographs, to be exhibited in the Addison Street Windows Gallery ...2.7