Mount Diablo

Pie in the Sky: UC Berkeley Works on Drones That Won't Spy on and/or Kill You

UC Students Demonstrate How Drones Can Help You

Coye Cheshire doesn't mean to be impolitic, but he can't help mentioning the FBI's fruitless search for a Boston Marathon bomber -- and how it could be abetted by technology. "The whole push is to find someone who had pictures, and who could provide high resolution information about public events," ... More >>

Bay Area Boy Scout Council Leads the Way on Gay Rights

A local Boy Scout Council is showing the rest of the nation what it means to be a "responsible citizen and develop character." The Mount Diablo-Silverado Council is publicly calling on the Boy Scouts of America to do away with its ban on openly gay members. As KTVU notes today, the Bay Area scouts ... More >>

Home of Chicken and Waffles Heads East, Pizza Nostra Goes to Someone Else

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.Paolo L. at Inside Scoop learns that Derreck Johnson has signed the lease on a second location for Home of Chicken and Waffles, which started off intending to be a Roscoe's franchise but has f ... More >>

Bleeding Green

Forget about Sharp Park’s endangered frogs and snakes. The real problem with the golf course is its enormous cost to the city.

Meteor Hunting in San Francisco Tonight? Good Luck.

Sacre bleu!​Get ready for some serious galactic debris, San Francisco. According to NASA, the peak visibility of the Perseids meteor shower will come tonight around midnight (most visible after the moon sets), revealing dozens of streaming fireballs across the night sky every hour until dawn. Soun ... More >>

Messrs. Gorgeous

Lark Creek's Annual Half-Off Bottle Promotion Starts Tomorrow

LFL16/FlickrIf you order wine by the bottle, dining at One Market should be a bit more affordable in July.Let your wallet feel as flush as your face. Starting tomorrow (and for the entire month of July), Bay Area winos can savor half-off savings on every bottles on le menu at all Lark Creek restaura ... 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 >>

Saving Corbett Slope

Strokes hair and suburban boozing

California Sunshine

The golden state of Skygreen Leopards' cosmic roots-pop

An Ideal Meal

Assemble your own from a buffet of the year's best dishes

Collect Call

Dropping in on Mark "Ultranova" at Blackhole for a little obsession with the art of things

House Of Tudor

The return of "Stinky's"; crematory arts; girly freak shows

Angel of Theft

A high-flying New Age company is grounded amid allegations that its main financial backer embezzled $4.5 million from UCSF

House Of Tudor

Hank Williams Karaoke, "The War Room," "Electromechanik," New England Clambake, "Planet Tiki," Kiss-Offs, Waco, and "Burlesque Brigade."

Panic or Attack?

Did this aspiring cover boy, who says he killed in a panic fit brought on by unwanted gay advances, get away with murder?

Riff Raff

Unspun

The Trance Factory

The hypnosis industry is burgeoning, but its mavens are bitterly divided over what direction they should now take on the road to legitimacy.

Night+Day

Slap Shots

Whirly Birds

The wind-power entrepreneurs at Kenetech have spent millionsin vain tosolve this avian mystery: Why have hundredsof raptors, including golden eagles, died alongside the windmills of Altamont Pass?