Work by a Major Artist of the Harlem Renaissance Sold by UC Berkeley at a Fraction of its Value
Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:42:33 GMT

The New York Times reports that three years ago, the University of California, Berkeley mistakenly sold a piece of art by a famed African-American sculptor for $150 , though the "huge redwood" was valued at over a million dollars.

Former UC Berkeley Chancellor Heyman to be memorialized Monday
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:37:41 GMT

UC Berkeley on Monday will celebrate the life of its sixth chancellor, I. Michael Heyman, who died in November at the age of 81.

A la Carte: Afro-Caribbean Suya in Berkeley, u-sushi in SF
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:37:40 GMT

Afro-Caribbean beats and bites: Downtown Berkeley already has an embarrassment of dining riches, but it's about to acquire a new and intriguing one in Suya African-Caribbean Grill.

Supplying the backyard Bacchus
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:33:02 GMT

ON A CLOUDY November afternoon, the scene outside Berkeley's Oak Barrel Winecraft buzzed with excitement, urgency and fruit - lots and lots of fruit.

Peter Gleick cancels plans to join the board of the Oakland-based...
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:28:28 GMT

Peter Gleick, 46, of Oakland, CA, is a Conservation Analyst who is also Co-Founder and President the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security.

HEMET: Grove view from above
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:13:52 GMT

Michael Layefsky created a curious sight when he sent a helium balloon aloft near the Bautista Creek flood-control channel in the Valle Vista citrus groves, east of Hemet.

Read "Ornette Coleman: The Missing Years, 1968-1972"
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:09:18 GMT

Among Ornette Coleman 's periods of relative quiet, the turn of the 1960s into the 1970s may well be the most frustrating.

Berkeley victim's call for help went unheeded
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 04:04:39 GMT

Berkeley police have acknowledged they were keeping officers on stand-by for a lightly attended Occupy Oakland march, meaning no officer was dispatched when Peter Cukor, 67, first called at about 8:45 p.m. Saturday on a nonemergency line to report a suspicious person "hanging around" his property near Tilden Park.

Woodburn grad chosen to study public policy, law at Berkeley
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:54:58 GMT

Elizabeth Calixtro, a 2009 Woodburn Arts and Communications Academy graduate who is a politics and American Ethnic Studies major at Willamette University, was one of 30 undergraduates chosen from across the nation to attend the Public Policy and International Affairs Fellowship Program this summer at the University of California, Berkeley.

It's Fat Tuesday - Where Can You Find Mardi Gras in the East Bay?
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:55:25 GMT

Oh, to be in New Orleans, now that Mardi Gras is here... Well, no, actually. Not if you are over 30, or maybe 25.

Mislabeled work by African-American artist is museum's gain
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:55:19 GMT

Everybody misplaces something sometime. But it is not easy for the University of California, Berkeley, to explain how it lost a 22-foot-long carved panel by a celebrated black sculptor, or how, three years ago, it mistakenly sold this work, valued at more than $1 million, for $150 plus tax.

Ignored 911 Call Turns Fatal In Berkeley; Police Busy With Occupy Protest
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:45:44 GMT

Officers were preparing for an Occupy protest headed to UC Berkeley from Oakland and said it didn't appear to be an emergency.

Occupy Oakland rallies at San Quentin, turning Presidents Day into Prisoners' Day
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:46:06 GMT

As part of a national "day of solidarity" with inmates, about 700 Occupy demonstrators rallied peacefully outside San Quentin Prison's East Gate on Monday in support of prison hunger strikers protesting solitary confinement and other human rights issues.

Report: Sex-Change Treatments on the Rise Among Children & Teens
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:31:47 GMT

A small but growing number of teens and even younger children who think they were born the wrong sex are getting support from parents and from doctors who give them sex-changing treatments, according to reports in the medical journal Pediatrics.

Oakland North presents: History of Temescal
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 04:26:53 GMT

Posing for a snapshot in Temescal, the operator and conductor of this early six-bench open trolley strike a casual stance.

Former Alameda Civic Leader's Grandson Arrested in Berkeley Slaying
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:12:19 GMT

A A man arrested in connection with a Berkeley slaying Saturday night is the grandson of former Alameda city councilman and civic leader Al DeWitt .

Book shatters stereotypes about Muslim women, sex and love
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:57:54 GMT

"I'm an unmarried, Muslim non-virgin," declares Insiya Ansari, a writer in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Saboteur: An Interview With a Domestic Insurgent
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:48:01 GMT

Editor's Note: Truthout is honored to publish this excerpt from "Radical Peace" because it offers a valuable perspective on dissent and resistance.

Anh 'Joseph' Cao is subject of documentary film
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 03:29:24 GMT

"Mr. Cao Goes to Washington," read the Page 1 headline on a December 2008 story in The Times-Picayune, which began, " Anh 'Joseph' Cao arrived in Washington on Wednesday to the praise of congressional Republicans and began his metamorphosis from unlikely hero to Congress' most junior -- and politically vulnerable -- member." Anh 'Joseph' Cao was ... (more)

Man slain outside Berkeley hills home
Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:14:50 GMT

Daniel Jordan Dewitt, 23, attacked the victim shortly after he and his wife found him outside their home near the intersection of Shasta Road and Grizzly Peak Boulevard around 8:45 p.m. Saturday, said Berkeley police Sgt.