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Uber drivers protest billboard campaign

Garrett Leahy - September 10, 2020

Company claims to support Black workers while undermining their rights with a state ballot initiative.

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Meet in the middle

Dennis Harvey - September 10, 2020

This week's must-stream films bring visions of faraway lands and all-too-close looks at our own.

Movies

Raising the wage for tipped workers

Emily Wilson - September 8, 2020

'Waging Change' by Berkeley filmmaker Abby Ginzberg tracks the fight for better service industry pay, from 9/11 to #MeToo.

Nightlife

[UPDATED] A Burning Man sound camp responds about Ocean Beach party that drew 100s

Marke B. - September 7, 2020

BAAAHS says masks were distributed and social distancing enforced—but why didn't someone just turn off the music?

City Hall

Board committee approves budget deal that clashes with mayor’s proposal

Tim Redmond - August 27, 2020

The Board of Supes is heading for a potential showdown with the mayor over more than $100 million in changes to her proposed two-year...

Homelessness

Epic Sacramento showdown over looming eviction tsunami

John Elberling - August 23, 2020

In an important State Capitol legislative shift, on Thursday Berkeley Assemblymember Nancy Skinner agreed to amend her controversial housing bill, AB1085. She said she will...

Campaign Trail

Biden’s convention: Powerful images, powerful speeches ….

Tim Redmond - August 20, 2020

Wednesday night was about fighting back. The speakers took on Donald Trump, with former President Barack Obama – normally the calm, measured voice of...

Music

Out of the Crate: When ‘Bitches Brew’ put us all on notice

John-Paul Shiver - August 19, 2020

Miles Davis entered Columbia Records Studio B in Manhattan on Tuesday, August 19, 1969—one day after the Woodstock Music festival ended. There, his explorations...

City Hall

A quiet, sweetheart deal for the cops

Tim Redmond - August 16, 2020

The Board of Supes will meet in closed session Tuesday/18 to discuss negotiations with city employee unions, and one of the issues on the...

Foreign Correspondent

Foreign correspondent: Kamala Harris on war, peace, and the Middle East

Reese Erlich - August 14, 2020

Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin hasn’t forgotten a 2017 meeting with members of Senator Kamala Harris’s staff to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza....

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