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PG&E outage map | Remembering 16-year-old Lillia Bartlow | Berkeley crime on the rise | Celebrating 10 years of Nosh

Joanne Furio

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Shop Talk: Hot tub maker opens Berkeley store; used T-shirts printed with fresh designs to cut waste

Joanne Furio by Joanne Furio Aug. 07, 2022, 11:43 a.m.August 10, 2022

Robert’s son has taken over at Robert’s Hot Tubs, new to Fourth Street. Catch up on this and other Berkeley retail and small business news.

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Berkeley lawn bowlers have been rolling bowls in Poet’s Corner since 1928

Joanne Furio by Joanne Furio July 24, 2022, 6:59 a.m.August 4, 2022

Yes, bowls, not balls! The club is enjoying a pandemic-fueled renaissance. Meanwhile, its unused green could become a public park.

Posted inBusiness

Shop Talk: New school and club sails into the Berkeley marina; tech company turns worker co-op

Joanne Furio by Joanne Furio July 01, 2022, 11:00 a.m.October 3, 2022

Inspire Sailing opened at the marina a year ago. Catch up on this and other Berkeley retail and small business news.

Posted inCommunity

Low-tide sandbar has hosted clam bakes, live chickens and even a wedding

Joanne Furio by Joanne Furio June 21, 2022, 4:59 p.m.August 4, 2022

Since 1978, they’ve been coming on sailboats, kayaks, rowboats, canoes and dragon boats to celebrate low tides twice a year on the Ashby Shoal, which is usually underwater.

Posted inBusiness

Shop Talk: Perfumery at former Spenger’s site sells fine scents (nothing fishy); superheroes in North Berkeley

Joanne Furio by Joanne Furio June 03, 2022, 1:35 p.m.June 6, 2022

Le Labo, part of an upscale international chain of perfume shops, opened quietly during the pandemic on Fourth Street. Catch up on this and other Berkeley retail and small business news.

Posted inArts

At Berkeley’s queer tango class, it takes 2 but it doesn’t matter who

Joanne Furio by Joanne Furio May 29, 2022, 6:00 a.m.May 29, 2022

“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 inBusiness

Shop Talk: Westbrae Nursery turns into worker co-op; no rivalry for lamp sellers on Solano

Joanne Furio by Joanne Furio May 20, 2022, 3:00 p.m.August 4, 2022

Westbrae Nursery, in existence since the 1930s, now has seven worker-owners. Catch up on this and other Berkeley retail and small business news.

Posted inLocal Produce Week

How to cook with the East Bay’s bounty of cherry plums

Joanne Furio by Joanne Furio May 17, 2022, 9:00 a.m.August 4, 2022

Wild plums, the freely found fruit of the East Bay, can become chutney, ice cream or liqueur.

Posted inLocal Produce Week

This delicious fruit is free for the taking across the East Bay

Joanne Furio by Joanne Furio May 16, 2022, 9:00 a.m.August 4, 2022

You’ve seen cherry plums spattered on the sidewalk and smashed them underfoot, but they’re actually a forager’s dream.

Posted inBusiness

Shop Talk: The Berkeley jeweler favored by rockstars; Berkeley Garden Club turns 90

Joanne Furio by Joanne Furio May 06, 2022, 9:50 a.m.August 4, 2022

Jeweler David Giulietti started out making armor in high school and has worked with metal ever since. Catch up on this and other Berkeley retail and small business news.

Shop Talk: Berkeley car repair shop has ‘changed with the times’; ‘Far & Few’ is back 
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Shop Talk: Berkeley car repair shop has ‘changed with the times’; ‘Far & Few’ is back 

Joanne Furio by Joanne Furio April 15, 2022, 1:05 p.m.August 4, 2022

Drawn to anti-war Berkeley as a 21-year-old mechanic, Ken Shapiro has been fixing cars in the city for 50 years. Catch up on this and other Berkeley retail and small business news.

Posted inArts

At Berkeley gallery, student photos of Hong Kong protests get rare showing

Joanne Furio by Joanne Furio April 14, 2022, 12:21 p.m.August 4, 2022

Organizers of the ‘Echoes of Defiance’ exhibition at Fourth Street Fine Art say it’s the first time student photos of the 2019 street protests have been shown overseas.

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