The restaurant has moved into Michele LeProhn’s Communité Table space. The biggest alteration to the interior is what’s stocked in the deli case. All of LeProhn’s side salads have been ...

Mosswood Meltdown returns: Oakland’s punkiest music festival encourages quality family slam time on July 19-20 at Mosswood Park.

Wade never expected this shift in consumer preference when she first opened her full-service restaurant in 2011, but demand eventually led her to open Homeroom To-Go, a separate spot down the ...

David Brock lied when he wrote about Anita Hill. He played it loose when he covered Bill Clinton. Then he misled us when he apologized for lying. What are we to make of his memories of Berkeley?

Javier Arango can still feel the bullet lodged against his spine. It paralyzed him instantly and is a reminder of the war he’s managed to survive. But this battle wasn’t waged in Kandahar or ...

With greenbacks from Lehman Brothers often in hand, SunCal had developed a reputation for big thinking and bigger bids. It put up $100.5 million for Oak Knoll, a move that left local developers ...

Throughout the day, police were conspicuously absent from the streets. Even at the height of the afternoon march, as protesters staved in the plate-glass windows of a Bank of America branch, two ...

Bug-bites and bunk beds. Fireside stories and cafeteria food. Sunburn, sweat and sand in the cracks, all under the care of counselors who are usually strangers. For stretches of daytime or ...

The promoters couldn’t help but notice that this year’s ball will coincide with a full moon. To Mann, that’s a great omen. And indeed, this year the ball could use some good luck, since it ...

Alameda County pays psych contractor big bucks to purge patients from its mental hospital. Critics call the practice dangerous and unethical.

I got kicked out of a public, federal immigration court hearing yesterday because I’m a newspaper reporter. And it wasn’t the judge who wanted me to leave. It was the Immigration and Customs ...

All the menu items have Italian titles, which threw me off for a second (should I really visit this place after Hole in the Wall month?) until I began to read the descriptions. All the 2002 ...