The lawsuits claim staff members at two elementary schools sexually abused students in 1967 and 1995 and the schools failed to stop it.
May 2022
Posted inArts
New play ‘Balikbayan Box’ tells a Filipino immigration love story
Jeffrey Lo’s play at TheatreFirst presents a modern arranged marriage, where love grows during the quest for a green card.
Posted inNature
Julia Morgan and Grinnell Jr? What should the 2 new falcon chicks be named?
You have until Friday morning to choose from among 12 potential names for the new peregrine falcon chicks atop the Campanile.
Posted inCity
People’s Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Preservationists are hoping the listing might persuade UC Berkeley to build housing elsewhere but Cal says it won’t.
Posted inOpinion
Opinion: Denser housing at BART stations is climate-smart
We strongly support the environmentally superior option of putting the maximum legally-feasible amount of mixed-income housing at Berkeley BART stations.
Posted inSponsored
Berkeley Symphony caps 50th season with epic Beethoven’s Ninth remix
June 12 performance reimagines masterpiece with new text by U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, plus new work by Berkeley composer Jimmy Lopéz Bellido.
Posted inNew Restaurants
Oakland’s newest coffee shop is drowning in rose garlands
Damask Rose is an impossibly cute floral-themed coffee shop from the owners of Old Damascus Fare.
Posted inArts
At Berkeley’s queer tango class, it takes 2 but it doesn’t matter who
“Queer tango is Argentine tango without the homophobia, transphobia and rigid heteronormative rules,” says a co-founder of Abrazo Queer Tango, open in Berkeley since 2012
Posted inNature
Name Annie and Alden’s 2 falcon chicks
On Friday, experts measured and banded the two chicks that hatched in early May. A contest started for the public to suggest names for the siblings by 6 p.m. on Memorial Day.
Posted inCrime & Safety
Berkeley man charged with sex crime series in Berkeley, Albany, Oakland
Police say the earliest incident took place March 30 when a man who said he had a knife sexually assaulted a 9-year-old in Albany. This was followed by a sexual assault on Colusa Avenue.
Posted inSchools
Berkeley school board members Ty Alper, Julie Sinai won’t seek re-election
Alper and Sinai have already endorsed their picks among the candidates running for the three at-large school board seats on the ballot in November.
Posted inBusiness
CVS Pharmacy on Shattuck Avenue will close June 15
Hundreds of CVS pharmacy locations are being closed across the country.