Berkeley Hills

Bouncer Experiences the Thrill Envy at Cafe Flore

Bon Iver Turns Up the Volume at the Greek Theatre

Joseph SchellBon Iver's Justin Vernon at the Greek Theatre last night.​ Bon Iver Other Lives September 22, 2011 Greek Theatre Better than: Thursday night network TV premieres (but don't forget to set the DVR). The Campanile bells of the University of California at Berkeley, solemnly tolling ... More >>

Police Hunt for SUV Driver Who Hit Four Cyclists

Joe Eskenazi​A man witnesses claim swerved and drove on the wrong side of the road in a deliberate effort to run down four bicycle riders last night is still on the loose. The motorist of a blue Nissan Rogue struck four cyclists over a five-minute period in Mission and Potrero Hill before crashing ... More >>

Berkeley NIMBYs Sue to Halt Mitch Kapor's 10-Car-Garage Mansion

Okay, that's not the Berkeley Hills; it's Versailles. But even at Versailles they don't have a 10-car garage. ​Residents of of the Berkeley hills wouldn't seem to be the type that minds ostentatiousness. Typical dwellings, such as the one enjoyed by Tenderloin poverty Czar Randy Shaw, sport upward ... More >>

What's With This Cold Weather? We Ask Some Scientists -- They Tell Us to Grow a Pair.

C'mon man. It's not that cold​Ask a weather scientist why it's so damn cold today and you'll get two answers, both of them equally valid. The first is a scientific rationale involving high-pressure systems and advection and whatnot. And the second is that San Franciscans are wussies. We told you t ... More >>

Photos: Snow! In Berkeley!

Photos by Meredith Brody The news outlets have been falling all over themselves in the last few days, sending hapless reporters up Mt. Diablo and Mt. Tamalpais, in order to send us footage of snow atop these usually green mountains. But hey! Those are the highest mountains in the area (that's why ... More >>

Moving Pains

Mother’s Work

Some working moms face job discrimination, while others encounter barriers to success. They're all potential activists for the new grass-roots group, MomsRising.

The black and white came and crushed my groove (again)

The Place That Time Forgot

Why things never seem to get better in the Tenderloin, no matter how much money is thrown at it

Up in Arms

In Shaw's genre-busting play of ideas, the world rights itself just in time

You Don't Own Me

Touring the glamorous homes of the opponents of Prop. R, which would allow thousands of renters per year to buy their own apartments

Taking Wing

Cal Shakes uses an appropriately light touch with Chekhov's "comedy"

The Rabbi Who Would Save the World

Michael Lerner has won many followers with his ideas for world peace. But if all he is preaching is the Golden Rule, why is he so controversial?

Horse Senseless

City closes Golden Gate Park stables for long-needed rehab; only-in-S.F. protest has privileged horse-owners refusing to move mounts

Through a Different Lens

We don't need more pretty pictures of the Golden Gate Bridge. So why is one of the country's finest documentary photographers taking hundreds of them?

Rubble With a Mortgage

What could be worse than a devasting earthquake in the Bay Area? The day after, when we all realize that no one is covered by insurance.

Play Out the Play

The Taming of the Shrew

The Old Old Thing

Two new collections from Berkeleyites Malvina Reynolds and Harry Smith argue for folk's historical authenticity. Whatever that is.

In the Money Corner

How a Berkeley-based religious sect sold feng shui to the country

Night + Day

When the Bay was Groun Zero

A look at the Cold War ghosts that haunt the rim of the city

Looking A little Green

Taking the Sierra Club's helm, boy wonder Adam Werbach confronts more than his own inexperience

Mondo 1995 (Part II)

Mondo 2000 nailed the emerging cybersexcomputerdrug zeitgeist with its first issue in 1989, making media mavens out of its founders, Queen Mu and R.U. Sirius. But the trippy, fractious family that was Mondo began to implode in 1993, torn asunder bu inter

Mondo 1995

Mondo 2000 nailed the emerging cybersexcomputerdrug Zeitgeist with its first issue in 1989, making media mavens out of its founders, Queen Mu and R.U. Sirius. But the trippy, fractious family that was Mondo began to implode in 1993, torn asunder by inter