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This East Bay chef will keep spinning pizzas, whatever it takes

by Madeline Taub July 21, 2023, 9:00 a.m.July 21, 2023

The stress of working all hours was bad for Jeff Chin’s health. He’s persevering because making pizzas for his community makes him happy.

The damaged entryway to Elmwood Theater after a car crash on Wednesday.

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Update: Elmwood theater reopens after car crash

by Supriya Yelimeli July 21, 2023, 9:00 a.m.July 21, 2023

No theater workers or bystanders were injured in the crash and the driver, passenger and dog in the car appeared to exit safely, according to theater staff.

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A jazz prince will play a free concert on Fourth Street this Saturday

by Andrew Gilbert July 14, 2023, 10:00 a.m.July 16, 2023

Smith Dobson V, part of a musical clan that goes back at least four generations, will play outside Peet’s Saturday afternoon.

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Berkeley closes roads for July 4th fire safety, reminds of fireworks ban

by Alex N. Gecan July 01, 2023, 8:00 a.m.July 5, 2023

Officials asked residents to help prevent injuries and forest fires by foregoing fireworks entirely, particularly in the Berkeley Hills, where fires can spread especially quickly.

A stylized illustration of a young unhoused woman with almond-shaped eyes, windswept hair and a beanie holding a "Please Help" sign. She's flanked by a bureaucrat holding a notebook that says SF.gov and a TV personality in swanky clothes holding a microphone. At the bottom are tents.

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Free musical in Berkeley park takes on homelessness and hot-take media

by Andrew Gilbert June 30, 2023, 9:18 a.m.June 30, 2023

San Francisco Mime Troupe’s play ‘Breakdown — A New Musical’ is coming to Cedar Rose Park this weekend. It will be in Live Oak Park in late July.

An illustration in muted tones of the search for housing with a group of people, some rolling suitcases, walking toward a block of houses and apartments

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A guide to affordable housing in Berkeley

by Supriya Yelimeli and Natalie Orenstein June 21, 2023, 1:07 p.m.September 5, 2023

In this guide, we compiled tips and resources that explain low-income housing requirements and how to apply for affordable housing.

A man in a neon vest grins with his thumbs up. Behind him are dozens of full garbage bags.

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Memorial honors the hundreds of unhoused people who died in Alameda County this year

by Natalie Orenstein June 16, 2023, 2:00 p.m.June 16, 2023

A new effort to track every local homeless death has found that unhoused people are six times likelier than others to die.

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Vitamin Em’s free downtown concert on Saturday will support Berkeley’s unhoused residents

by Andrew Gilbert May 31, 2023, 11:58 a.m.June 1, 2023

The Civic Center Park concert benefitting the Dorothy Day House will include songs inspired by Lizzo, and by a gifted musician who became addicted to heroin and died in the Tenderloin.

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At Idea Makers: Lively talk about women, technology and the changing definition of feminism

by Tracey Taylor May 26, 2023, 11:40 a.m.May 28, 2023

Designer and technologist Mindy Seu, author and podcaster Lauren Schiller, and activist Hadley Dynak were guests at the Berkeleyside event at BAMPFA.

A blood-spackled man in street clothes — a vampire — crouching and staring intensely

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Berkeley Rep’s bloody, beautiful new play joins the vampire media frenzy

by Emily S. Mendel May 26, 2023, 11:02 a.m.May 28, 2023

The downtown Berkeley theater’s production of ‘Let the Right One In,’ based on the Swedish vampire novel ‘Let Me In,’ is as mesmerizing as it is horrifying.