The East Bay’s Premier Magazine of Culture & Commerce
The East Bay’s Premier Magazine of Culture & Commerce
The fight over U.C. Berkeley’s plans to retrofit and upgrade Memorial Stadium, add a student-athlete training center and build a new parking garage isn’t only about a grove of coastal oaks defended by tree-sitting activists. It’s about longstanding tension between U.C. Berkeley and its neighbors on Panoramic Hill, seismic safety, an athletic program on the rise and some tightwad fans.
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Priya Haji: World of Good In stores such as Elephant Pharmacy and Whole Foods, World of Good...
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Mike Hannigan: Give Something Back When strangers ask Mike Hannigan what he does for a living, he...
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Clif Bar For the first nine years after Gary Erickson founded Clif Bar in Berkeley in 1992, no one...
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Betsy Thagard: Green Planet Properties Whenever Berkeley real estate agent Betsy Thagard helps a...
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Hidden in the East Bay hills, the Carmelite nuns of Kensington live at the most secluded monastery in the United States.
A Cal psychologist has a simple prescription for race relations.
Experts say that when caring for an elderly parent who lives far away, the most important thing is to join a support group with people experiencing the same challenges.
Rockridge residents John Bliss and Kim Thompson may live far removed the gritty flats of East and West Oakland. But this philanthropic couple see themselves as one with the citizens of Oakland, particularly those who are struggling financially, and they’re leading a campaign to get their “financially blessed” peers to invest in the community like they have by funding city programs to teach kids how to swim.
Oakland author Meredith Maran accused her father of the ultimate betrayal. Then she un-accused him. In this first-person essay, adapted from her new book, My Lie, she reveals how it all went down.