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The UC system has the expertise and the resources to increase housing units without displacing less-affluent residents — so it ought to.
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The show’s characters are hard-working immigrants and the descendants of immigrants caught between two worlds.
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Berkeley was never too far away from home, and even though I rarely visited, I didn’t think it would be that different from Oakland — but it was.
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Walking uphill toward Valencia Street from the 24th St. Mission BART station, Voss Gallery, on the corner of 24th Street and Bartlett Street, is difficult to miss.
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Berkeley is unique in that it provides a sampling of cultures from all over the world — to let that go is to let our city’s identity go.
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These four films are some of the best movies that take place, and are at least partly filmed, in the Bay Area, perfect for a summer screening with friends.
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Berkeley City Council approved the creation of a housing complex in Downtown Berkeley entirely at market-rate. Community members have blindly rallied around increased housing, without pushing for the affordability of those developments. What’s the point of building more housing if the people who need it the most can’t afford it?
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The new Downtown Berkeley parking garage is more than just light displays, an art gallery, a café and a rainwater collection garden — it’s an unmistakable show of gentrification.
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Initially, when the band emerged from the wings of the stage to a roar from the audience, it was very hard to find Courtney Barnett. The quirky Australian indie rocker made her name as the Bob Dylan of millennial artists, and she looked the part in a plain white T-shirt and black pants.
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Upon arriving in San Francisco in 2002, Spanish multi-instrumentalist and composer Raúl Vargas, now a member of the band Makrú, did not intend to stay.
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