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Storm damage photos, outages linger, 30-year wait to underground utility lines is nearly over | Historic Asian American bookshop closing

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37 red maple trees planted along Solano Avenue

Avatar photo by Frances Dinkelspiel Nov. 02, 2012, 3:30 p.m.October 4, 2022

A recently-planted red maple on Solano Avenue. Eventually, more than 40 will line the blocks from The Alameda to Ensenada. Laurie Capitelli showed up at Peet’s Coffee on Solano Avenue at 7:30 a.m. on Friday to wait for some trees – 37 of them in fact. After two years of bureaucratic wrangling involving numerous agencies, including […]

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Were you a winner in our Caltopia raffle?

Avatar photo by Lance Knobel Aug. 24, 2011, 2:15 p.m.October 4, 2022

Baskets filled to the brim with gift certificates and pizza for a year from La Val’s Baskets filled to the brim with gift certificates and pizza for a year from La Val’s The two days of Caltopia were quite a whirl for students, faculty and staff, as well as for exhibitors like Berkeleyside. From the […]

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Thousands of Cal students, staff flock to Caltopia

Avatar photo by Tracey Taylor Aug. 22, 2011, 10:37 a.m.October 4, 2022

Students new and old come out in droves for the community-boosting swag-fest that is Caltopia. Find Berkeleyside at booth E104 UC Berkeley freshmen, some looking dazed, others excited, as well as more blasé seniors, turned out in their thousands on Sunday for Day One of Caltopia, the self-described “two greatest days on the planet”. The […]

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UC Berkeley’s Caltopia: The ultimate Town & Gown affair

Avatar photo by Tracey Taylor Aug. 18, 2011, 11:30 a.m.October 4, 2022

This weekend, when around 30,000 students and faculty stroll through Caltopia, browsing the booths of more than 100 exhibitors, Berkeley’s two driving forces, the city and its university, will be pitched in perfect harmony. And Berkeleyside will be there to sing along too. Caltopia was launched nine years ago as a way for Berkeley businesses […]

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Where’s the best ice cream in Berkeley? You tell us

Avatar photo by Lance Knobel July 21, 2011, 9:00 a.m.October 4, 2022

Ici certainly attracts the crowds. What do you think? Photo: Kukkurovaca on Flickr When we asked our readers to weigh in on the best pizza in Berkeley last month, we were floored by the reaction. Over 200 comments, 81 Facebook Likes and dozens of tweets showed you were passionate about pizza in Berkeley. Now that […]

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