For the last year, Ken Lin-Ott has taken to the streets of Oakland late at night, offering rides to anyone who wants to hop into his pedicab. Passengers usually take a short ride – to a restaurant or bar, or a trip back to their car. Lin-Ott doesn’t charge anything for the service. He just [...]
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Berkeley Bites: Tu David Phu, Saul’s Delicatessen
What’s a nice, young, tattooed Vietnamese boy from West Oakland doing as the top chef in a Jewish deli in North Berkeley? I’m so glad you asked. Tu David Phu wanted to take a break from working the stoves in Bay Area fine dining establishments — his resume includes stints at The Peasant and the [...]
Biotech Academy students get hands-on education
The woman had been missing for six months, with no clue to her whereabouts. Now police had found her car, and it was covered with what looked like blood splatters, blood trails, and a bullet hole. William Clark and Evanney Salisi went to work analyzing the clues. They looked at the pattern of the blood [...]
I spy with my little eye… another Prius
The ubiquity of Priuses in Berkeley is a commonplace. But environmental writer Todd Woody reckons Berkeley serves as a harbinger of the future of transportation in the country: With months to go before the first mass production electric cars hit American streets, the $41,000 question (before rebates and tax incentives) is whether drivers will buy them en [...]
Berkeley Bites: Paul Arenstam & Charlene Reis, Summer Kitchen & Bake Shop
Chef owners Paul Arenstam and Charlene Reis have a slow food sensibility in a take-out business better known for fast food. That’s because the culinary couple (partners in life too) come with stellar cooking credentials: She’s an-ex Chez Panisse pastry chef, he did stints at upscale L.A. joints before landing at San Francisco’s acclaimed Rubicon. [...]
Berkeley Bites: Daniel Miller, Spiral Gardens
Just around the corner and down the street from where I live on a stretch of Sacramento Street that includes liquor stores and the dodgy characters who frequent such places, you’ll find Spiral Gardens, a slightly disheveled verdant oasis on a fenced in corner of a formerly empty city lot. It’s a welcome addition to [...]
Berkeley to become fair trade city
At next Tuesday’s Berkeley City Council meeting, a resolution to declare the city a supporter of fair trade policies is certain to pass. The global fair trade movement is dedicated to securing justice and equity for producers, artisans, farmers and workers as a priority of international commerce. The results of the campaign can be seen [...]
The Local Beet: talking about what you eat
Rachel Gross is about to start her senior year at UC Berkeley. A former writer and editor for The Daily Californian, Rachel was also a “blogtern” for the New York Times’ Bay Area blog and writes for The Choice, a Times’ blog on the college admissions process. In addition to covering news stories for Berkeleyside, [...]
A call for help to paint a community mural
David Stern-Gottfried, the artist behind the mural now being painted on a wall of the Virginia Bakery, is looking for help. In order to complete the massive mural, which will pay homage to good food, sustainability, and Berkeley’s role in both, Stern-Gottfried needs a small army of volunteer painters. Anyone over 14 or so who [...]
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