Berkeley Rep's '24-'25 shows range from classical to cutting edge
Oct 3, 2024 · The 2024-25 season at Berkeley Repertory Theatre has begun with rave reviews on its first production Mexodus — and that’s just the beginning, with six shows to follow. In addition, a new program lets parents attend a matinee while their children play theater games next door.
UC Berkeley Botanical Garden's Tropical House reopens
Sep 5, 2024 · The newly renovated Tropical House at UC Berkeley’s Botanical Garden hosts 250 rare plants from the tropics on display and will open to the public on Sept. 7, 2024, after it closed four years ago for renovations.
Measure GG: A new tax on natural gas use in big Berkeley buildings
Oct 4, 2024 · Signatures to place Measure GG on the ballot were gathered by a group of local environmental and labor activists after Berkeley lost an expensive legal battle to save its first-in-the-nation ban on gas hookups in new development.. The measure, an effort to slash climate-change causing emissions, would take aim not just at new construction but impose a special …
Berkeley and Alameda County election results 2024
Nov 5, 2024 · City Council. Incumbent Terry Taplin won a second term representing West Berkeley while Ben Bartlett kept his seat representing South Berkeley for a third term.Shoshana O’Keefe won the North Berkeley seat Sophie Hahn is vacating, while Brent Blackaby took up Susan Wengraf’s mantle in the Berkeley Hills (). (Read Berkeleyside’s coverage of these races …
Berkeley City Council District 5: Who's running, where they stand
Oct 10, 2024 · District 5 encompasses the area bounded by Spruce Street to the east, Cedar Street to the south, Sacramento Street to the west and the city limits to the north.. The district includes much of Hopkins Street, which was the focus of one of Berkeley’s most bitter political battles in recent years, as city officials planned — then shelved — a project to install protected …
Berkeley rent and eviction rules, tenant unions go to voters
Oct 18, 2024 · “Voters consistently support rent control as a key housing strategy,” according to an argument for BB from Mayor Jesse Arreguín, rent board Chair Leah Simon-Weisberg, former rent chair and Berkeley Tenants Union representative Paola Laverde, Harriet Tubman Terrace resident Darinxoso Oyamaselo and Iris Rosenblum-Sellers, a representative from a UC …
Berkeley measures EE, FF: Which street paving vision is best?
Oct 25, 2024 · Measure EE or FF could hold the line on citywide pavement conditions, according to a city study. Credit: Tracey Taylor. Of Berkeley’s even dozen ballot measures going to voters in November, two deal with the city’s generally crummy streets. Organizers for each had hoped to ultimately improve road conditions, but the city’s most recent projections indicate that the best …
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New Mayor Adena Ishii pledges to make Berkeley a beacon
Dec 6, 2024 · “Yesterday, we almost had a tsunami,” Buddenhagen said at Friday’s ceremony, referring to the brief period the prior morning when forecasters feared an offshore earthquake could send destructive waves to the Northern California coast. “Today we have a different kind of a metaphorical, democratic tsunami of an all-new group of people coming in to reshape the …
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