A Berkeley based film company is in the final stages of making a documentary about the Bay Area’s urban food movement which features several Berkeley faces. Edible City tells the stories of people responding to the global food crisis in their communities and in their own backyards. It is the work of East Bay Pictures, […]
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A matter of principal: Meet Victor Diaz, head of Berkeley’s first Charter Schools
Victor Diaz and his son Neruda, 5, and daughter Laila, 7, at Sack’s Coffee House in Berkeley. By Rachel Gross Since the small schools movement in the ‘90s, the Bay Area has been something of a petri dish for alternative academics in K-12 education. Oakland, for example, boasts 34 charter schools of various themes and sizes (as […]
Arrest made following fight at Berkeley High
One person has been arrested following a fight which broke out on the Berkeley High campus on Monday this week. The “juvenile female” who has been arrested is a student at Berkeley Tech, according to Berkeley Police Department officer Jamie Perkins, who added that a female Berkeley High student is also being regarded as a suspect in […]