Berkeley High School

SFJAZZ Opens Its Hayes Valley Center with Transparent Intentions

Berkeley High Students Pull a Ferris Bueller-Like Money Scheme

There's a new side hustle at Berkeley High: Hacking into the school database and clearing classmates' attendance record for a fee. Ferris Bueller would be proud. But the administration was not. School officials caught on and are suspending dozens of students and expelling a few others. Of course, ... More >>

Berkeley High Student Suspended for Allegedly "Arranging" Sex Act

​Naturally any claims of teenage prostitution will encourage any high school to crack down on its students' sexual misbehavior.As readers night recall, back in December, Berkeley police Sgt. Mary Kusmiss reported that the department was getting at least one or two calls a month about suspected pro ... More >>

Berkeley's Sgt. Mary Kusmiss Regrets Stoking High School Prostitution Hype

Here, this always helps us journalist interpret stats ​The source of the Berkeley High School prostitution hype has fessed up, and believe it or not, the informant is a cop. Actually, the frenzy over talk of teen prostitutes at Berkeley High can be chalked up to a innocent, yet damning mistake.&nb ... More >>

Reports of Prostitution Referrals from Berkeley High School Hyped - But By Whom?

Who's to blame - the source or the messenger? ​The Berkeley police are disputing a KTVU report last week -- that SF Weekly then blogged -- about the number of possible cases of student prostitutes that Berkeley High School refers to the Berkeley Police Department.Last week, KTVU reported that the ... More >>

Teen Prostitution Is a Growing Concern at Berkeley High School

How can we make them more interested in science?​The Berkeley community is freaking out over increasing reports of high school students who are apparently working as prostitutes when they should be working on their math homework. Berkeley police confirmed that they are getting at least one or two ... More >>

Berkeley High Students Set a New World Record for Longest 'Soul Train' Line

Berkeley High students with their newly won Guinness World Record certificate.​ From the department of educationally awesome: Berkeleyside reports that this past Monday, about 300 Berkeley High School students, faculty, and alumni danced down an after-school Soul Train line -- the arrangemen ... More >>

Coming of Age

Berkeley School Counselor Accused of "Pawing and Spanking" Student

This crosses the line ... even in Berkeley ​A Berkeley High School student says her school counselor consistently hugged, spanked, and pawed her at school. The teen -- who was identified only as Lilah -- and her mother are suing the Berkeley Unified School District, accusing the superintendent of ... More >>

Freight and Salvage Begins Year-Long Multi-Million Upgrade

SF Weekly Music Awards 2003

Americana DJ/Selector/Turntablist Electronic/Electro Hard Rock/

Metal Hip Hop/Rap Jazz Latin/

International Lifestyle Music New Genre/Beyond Pop Punk Rock/Indie Rock Soul/Funk/ R&B

If music be the brandy of the damned, then we're drunk off our asses

Tenor of the Times

Joshua Redman returns to the Bay Area as SF Jazz tries to prove it's got everything New York has -- and maybe more

Money, Art, and Lawyers

Razing of long-standing Berkeley Shellfish sculpture creates potential legal dispute

Return of the Prodigious Son

Jazz guitarist Charlie Hunter revisits the Bay Area, energized and uncorrupted by the bustle of New York City

Gore Vidal/Christopher Hitchens