If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!OK so those of us who are nuts for soccer and are just so excited to have the World Cup …

Instead of the usual required summer-reading book, this year’s INCOMING FRESHMEN AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, will get something quite different: a cotton swab on which they can, if they choose, …

The SF Chronicle has released its annual Top 100 Bay Area restaurants and five local Berkeley eateries are on the list this year. While one perennial has dropped off the list this year.
Berkeley is known …

A group of about 40 students from a statewide advocacy organization gathered in Berkeley Wednesday to call for local and state bans on polystyrene, commonly known as Styrofoam, takeout containers.
The students, from the California Public Interest Research …