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January 11, 2023
Posted inCity
West Berkeley maintenance hole overflowed with sewage on New Year’s Eve
The East Bay Municipal Utility District tested the site at Page and Second streets the following day, and found no public health hazard.
Posted inCity
Reservoirs serving Berkeley, Oakland are filling up after consistent rain
“We have been waiting for a wet season like this for years,” a water official said, but is it enough to end the drought?
Posted inNosh Features
Is there any budget-friendly — and decent — pizza left in the East Bay?
Soccer practice pizza. Slumber party pizza. Where in Berkeley and Oakland can you find that family-size, flat-boxed, satisfies-a-group-of-teens-on-a-Friday-night standby?
Posted inArts
Melba’s Kitchen to revive ‘formidable’ tunes of band’s namesake jazz legend on Friday
Melba’s Kitchen, a 14-piece, all-women band, will play a show in Melba Liston’s honor at Freight & Salvage on Friday, Jan. 13, which would have been Liston’s 97th birthday.
Posted inObituaries
Remembering Linda Schieber, archivist, mediator, volunteer, reader
Schieber, who worked as a mediator between employees and management at the United Nations, was active on the boards of SF’s Mediation Society and Berkeley’s Central Works and Cal Performances.