Shopping in Berkeley sucks: Where you should go instead
While we’re a BART ride away from one of the coolest cities in the world, we’re also an Uber or 51B ride away from some suburban chain store shopping.
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Tag Archives: Walnut Creek
UC Berkeley alumna Ruth Bancroft, pioneer of gardening, dies at 109
Ruth Bancroft, a pioneer of dry gardening and founder of the Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek, died in her home at age 109 on Nov. 26.
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Picks of the week: Music legends, local comedy and more
Legends like Hans Zimmer and Kendrick Lamar are certain to draw massive crowds, but they aren’t the only artists taking over next week.
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Alta Bates Summit Medical Center to close radiation oncology department
Alta Bates Summit Medical Center radiation oncology department, which housed the first TomoTherapy machine in the East Bay, the “preferred” radiation treatment for complex tumors, is set to close July 14.
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Professor of epidemiology William Satariano dies at 70
William Satariano, director of undergraduate health programs at the School of Public Health and campus professor of epidemiology and community health sciences, died May 28 at the John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek after a long battle with lymphoma. Satariano was 70.
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Bond’s Voyage: How Octavia Bond’s joy charges her strength
While other freshmen are sound asleep, Octavia Bond begins her first assignment of the morning, making it to the team’s offseason morning workout on time.
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Mini-trip ideas to get away from Berkeley
It’s that point in the semester. We all feel it. With the weariness of midterms dragging on and the grunge of Berkeley seeping into your soul, you start to question if you can really carry on like this for another two months. But no worries, there’s a cure. We at the
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Tender Greens opens Downtown, offers fine-casual dining experience
Fine-casual restaurant chain Tender Greens opened its Berkeley location Wednesday morning on University Avenue.
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City showcase of Adeline Street Corridor plans prompts discussion of race, gentrification
South Berkeley residents and city officials gathered Saturday morning for the opening of an exhibit on the city’s plans for the future of the historic Adeline Street Corridor.
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South Berkeley residents mobilize around plan to develop Adeline Street corridor
South Berkeley residents are mobilizing around a city project to revitalize their neighborhood, which some worry could spell displacement and proliferate patterns of gentrification seen across the Bay Area.
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