News Updates

Sink Hole Closes Tunnel Road

Wednesday January 07, 2009
 Tunnel Road westbound will be closed from Highway 13, as will the intersection of Vicente and Tunnel Road, this morning and afternoon due to a large sink hole caused by a water main break, according to Berkeley police. -more-

Treesitting Pair Occupies Acacia at People's Park

By Richard Brenneman
Tuesday January 06, 2009
The treesitters are back on UC Berkeley’s turf, this time occupying the branches of an acacia at People’s Park. -more-

Burning Body Found Near Berkeley Shore

By Richard Brenneman
Tuesday December 30, 2008
Berkeley police and firefighters rushed to the shoreline early Tuesday morning, where they discovered a body burning inside a container. -more-

Post-Christmas Fire Claims Berkeley Cats

By Richard Brenneman
Monday December 29, 2008
Two cats died on Friday from smoke inhalation in a slow-burning fire in a rented home at 1367 La Loma Ave. -more-

Buried Body in Wall Identified by Police

By Richard Brenneman
Tuesday December 23, 2008
A crime scene cleanup technician finishes donning his protective gear as he prepares to work on the Ashby Avenue room where police found a body buried behind a wall.
The dramatic suicide of a Berkeley man last week led police to a second gruesome discovery two days later, a badly decomposed male corpse walled up inside the first floor laundry room. -more-

News

Fire Forces Evacuation of Regent Street Apartments

By Richard Brenneman
Tuesday December 23, 2008
A second-floor bedroom fire led Berkeley Police to evacuate a large three-story apartment building on Regent Street on Monday morning as firefighters fought to contain the flames. -more-

People’s Park Tree-Sit Ends With Holiday Reprieve

By Richard Brenneman
Tuesday December 23, 2008
The threatened acacia trees are fenced off at People’s Park.
Berkeley’s latest tree-sit ended the same day it began last week when campus police signed a Christmas truce that spares—for the moment—two acacias in People’s Park. -more-

Round and About

By Jerry Cote
Tuesday December 23, 2008
Virginia Bakery… Virginia Cleaners… Virginia Street—it’s all right there on two short blocks in a small north Berkeley neighborhood. As I jog past the bakery’s storefront, the scent of warm bread and joy from inside drifts out into the street deliciously. -more-

Finding Berkeley’s Center

By Ted Friedman
Tuesday December 23, 2008
In 1950s Springfield, Illinois, we often settled arguments with the absurd challenge: “If you’re right, I’ll kiss your hiney [although we pronounced it differently and spelled it with only three letters] at Fifth and Monroe.” Why there? It was the center of town, at least to us. -more-

Rose Eve Patterson, July 20, 1942-Dec. 17, 2007.

Remembering Rose

By Joanne Kowalski
Tuesday December 23, 2008

Louise and George, Helen and Lloyd

By Andrea Carney
Tuesday December 23, 2008

Wine Tasting Class

By Ray Saturno
Tuesday December 23, 2008

Poem

By Iris Crider
Tuesday December 23, 2008

Jolly Folly: Why an Atheist Keeps Christmas

By Sonja Fitz
Tuesday December 23, 2008

Holiday Bikes for Kids

Tuesday December 23, 2008

Murky Waters Run Deep in the Reservoir of Memory

By Helen Rippier Wheeler
Tuesday December 23, 2008

Stolpersteine

By Laura Bushman
Tuesday December 23, 2008

The Joys of Life on Two Wheels

By Laura McCamy
Tuesday December 23, 2008

25 Below

By Sandra J. Whittaker
Tuesday December 23, 2008

Family Tree

By Roopa Ramamoorthi
Tuesday December 23, 2008

The Poor Wee Birdies (spoken in Scottish brogue)

By Sandra J. Whittaker
Tuesday December 23, 2008

Christmas Story

By Richard Cormack
Tuesday December 23, 2008

December

By Annie Kassof
Tuesday December 23, 2008

The Timid Ones

By Lowell Moorcroft
Tuesday December 23, 2008

Seeing

By Marcia Craddock
Tuesday December 23, 2008

In Search of French: From Tahiti to Nice

By Tony and Laura Bushman
Tuesday December 23, 2008

Sunday

By Jerry Cote
Tuesday December 23, 2008

Up a Tree Without a Ladder

By Mary Spivey
Tuesday December 23, 2008

Last Licks

By Linda Rose
Tuesday December 23, 2008

The Little Engine

The Little Engine That Wanted To

By Kathy Horn
Tuesday December 23, 2008

The Ache of Christmas

By Dorothy V. Benson
Tuesday December 23, 2008

The Little Christmas Tree That Almost Didn’t Get to Celebrate Christmas

By James K. Sayre
Tuesday December 23, 2008

Come Walk With Me

By Kay Y. Wehner
Tuesday December 23, 2008

Flamenco Puro

By Ruth Guthartz
Tuesday December 23, 2008

Bikini

By Esther Stone
Tuesday December 23, 2008

Winter Clouds Over Berkeley Marina

Tuesday December 23, 2008

Mrs. Perle

By Dana Chernack
Tuesday December 23, 2008

Season of Hope

By Mary Wheeler
Tuesday December 23, 2008

A Box of Hope Tied with a Ribbon of Patience

By Pamela McNab
Tuesday December 23, 2008

Vanguard City

By Dana Chernack
Tuesday December 23, 2008

Election Haiku Diary

By Judy Wells
Tuesday December 23, 2008

In Their Pace ... In The Closet

By Garrett Murphy
Tuesday December 23, 2008

My 2009 Resolutions — for Other People

By Scott Badler
Tuesday December 23, 2008

Wildlife in My House

By Sherry Bridgman
Tuesday December 23, 2008

Regarding the Spanish Civil War

By Peter Loubal
Tuesday December 23, 2008

Hope Is Never Silent

By Tracie De Angelis Salim
Tuesday December 23, 2008

Craven

By Joseph Stubbs
Tuesday December 23, 2008

Winter Frost, 2003

Listen

By Cherrie Williams
Tuesday December 23, 2008

Richmond Plans Threaten Point Isabel

By Rosemary Loubal
Tuesday December 23, 2008

Bookstore Blues

By Roopa Ramamoorthi
Tuesday December 23, 2008

Giving Love for Christmas

By Melinda Pillsbury-Foster
Tuesday December 23, 2008

Night at the Musée d’Orsay

By Judy Wells
Tuesday December 23, 2008

I’d Like to Live in Paris

By Judy Wells
Tuesday December 23, 2008

Crackpot Rules

By Don Anderson
Tuesday December 23, 2008

Call Center

By Roopa Ramamoorthi
Tuesday December 23, 2008

Backyard Photo

Tuesday December 23, 2008

On Passing

By Randy Fingland
Tuesday December 23, 2008

Going to and from Work in Downtown Berkeley on a Friday of the First Rain

By Mike Palmer
Tuesday December 23, 2008

Paulina

By Dana Chernack
Tuesday December 23, 2008

Three Poems

By (s.b.r) Soul-1990
Tuesday December 23, 2008

UC Berkeley gained a pair of new treesitters Monday morning in one of two acacias at People's Park designated for the ax by university officials.
By Richard Brenneman
UC Berkeley gained a pair of new treesitters Monday morning in one of two acacias at People's Park designated for the ax by university officials.

Editorials

Editorial Cartoons

Lighting Up The Neighborhood

By Justin DeFreitas
Wednesday December 24, 2008

Insects in the Grill

By Justin DeFreitas
Wednesday December 24, 2008

Reader Commentaries

Letters to the Editor

Monday January 05, 2009

Columnists

Arts & Entertainment

Arts Calendar

Tuesday December 23, 2008

Michael Chabon

Chabon, Carroll Meet to Benefit Park Day

By Ken Bullock
Tuesday December 23, 2008

Book Review: A People’s History of Australia

By Estelle Jelinek
Tuesday December 23, 2008

Reflections on Holiday Music

By Ken Bullock
Tuesday December 23, 2008

A house on the 1300 block of Ashby Avenue is decked out for the holidays.

Tuesday December 23, 2008

Home & Garden

About the House: Slavery Lite

By Matt Cantor
Wednesday December 17, 2008

Events Calendar

Community Calendar

Tuesday December 23, 2008