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Josephine Zhao hasn’t really dropped out

Tim Redmond - October 28, 2018

Josephine Zhao has dropped out of the School Board race. She has stopped campaigning, she says, and has not raised any money in the...

News + Politics

A doctor’s plea: When treatment and cure isn’t enough

Leslie Suen - October 16, 2018

What do you do as a physician when you have all of the best medicines in the world, but can’t treat a patient’s disease...

Arts + Culture

The Doormat Division: Down go the Titanics …

Erik Walker - October 15, 2018

Every once in a great while, a team steps forward...I think it's two or three steps, and then you swing your leg...right?...and puts themselves...

Onstage

Pucks to plays: Former hockey pro brings drama to Magic Theatre

Emily Wilson - October 14, 2018

ONSTAGE Ashlin Halfnight sees a lot of parallels between his former career as a professional hockey player and his current one as a playwright. “It seems...

Party Radar

Party Radar: El Rio’s 40th, Bardot-A-Go-Go, Juliana Huxtable …

Marke B. - October 11, 2018

PARTY RADAR Welp, it took me two weeks to recover from Folsom Street Fair, so that means we've got a lot to catch up on!...

Campaign Trail

New study says rent control doesn’t discourage new housing

Tim Redmond - October 10, 2018

The landlord lobby – and it’s one of the most powerful interests in the state of California – is spending more than $40 million...

Onstage

ACT’s ‘Sweat’ asks: When does class solidarity end and racism begin?

Elaine Elinson - October 8, 2018

ONSTAGE The tavern setting is a familiar trope for American theater and television—think Langston Hughes’ Simple series, Casablanca, The Iceman Cometh, or Friends. It offers both an intimate...

News + Politics

DeShawn Patton sentenced to state prison

Alex Catsoulis - October 4, 2018

A car break-in case that sparked a city-wide outcry, particularly from a group of White anti-crime crusaders, came to an end yesterday. DeShawn Patton,...

Culture

‘Uncharted’ fills Berkeley with adventurous voices

Emily Wilson - October 2, 2018

Lance Knobel, co-founder of online news site Berkeleyside, and Helena Brantley, of Red Pencil Publicity and Marketing, sat down together in January to start talking...

The Agenda

Who supports real rent control — and environmental justice in Bayview?

Tim Redmond - September 30, 2018

All 11 supervisors will have to take a public stand Tuesday/2 on Proposition 10, the statewide ballot measure that would allow cities to impose...

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