Saying the government has a bias against the right, a federal judge dismissed charges against the Rise Above Movement, whose members clashed with Antifa during a 2017 battle in Berkeley, stomping and kicking black-clad demonstrators.
Frances Dinkelspiel
Frances Dinkelspiel, Berkeleyside and CItyside co-founder, is a journalist and author. Her first book, Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California, published in November 2008, was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Her second book, Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California was published in October 2015 and was both a New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Frances is a former staff reporter for the Syracuse Newspapers and the San Jose Mercury News. Her freelance work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, People Magazine, Daily Beast, the San Francisco Chronicle, and elsewhere.
Berkeley must pay $4M after illegally blocking housing project at Ohlone shellmound site
The city violated state housing law by denying a developer’s application to build a 260-unit housing complex at 1900 Fourth St., a judge ruled.
At new Berkeley winery, California wines harmonize with Japanese cuisine
California’s bold and fruity wines can overpower delicate Japanese dishes. With Noria, his first winery, winemaker Nori Nakamura is offering an alternative.
‘Scandal of Cal’ author says university has failed to reckon with history of grave-robbing, colonialism and atomic warfare
Tony Platt’s new book argues UC Berkeley needs to do more to investigate and atone for promoting white supremacy, stealing Native land and hoarding bones.
In new sci-fi novel, Berkeley is a multiverse of maternal love and angst
Yael Goldstein-Love’s book ‘The Possibilities’ is a taut thriller inspired by her son’s difficult birth. The Elmwood author plans to open a private therapy practice in Berkeley in the fall.
Berkeley man who destroyed $250M of wine in fire dies
Mark Anderson, who was given a compassionate release from federal prison because of failing health, died in January.
A ‘lovely person inside and out’: Berkeley High cheerleader dies unexpectedly
Lillia Bartlow, who was injured in a collision on Claremont Avenue in 2016, died Friday. She was 16.
14 residents evacuated from mudslides in Berkeley Hills
Eight homes in the area of The Spiral at Middlefield Road have been evacuated and red-tagged. Other mudslides closed roads on the Clark Kerr Campus and in the Claremont Hills.
5 new books by Berkeley authors to read this summer
Read about Judy Gumbo’s life as a political protester, a novel about a woman creating a happiness app, a plague year journal and more.
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.
A new nonprofit from Berkeley and Detroit aims to tackle reparations
Reparation Generation will make $25,000 “reparative transfers” to help people in Detroit buy homes.
Why hasn’t UC Berkeley built more student housing?
For much of Cal’s history, providing housing for students was not a priority. Troubled finances in the last few decades have hobbled Cal’s efforts to catch up.