The Berkeley Wire: 11.30.20
More news about Berkeley from around the web.
Archives November 2020
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Berkeleyside is hiring a new editor-in-chief
The new editor-in-chief will lead our pioneering nonprofit newsroom to new heights in its second decade.
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Cityside named Publisher of the Year for ‘excellent coverage’ and its vision for serving communities
Cityside, parent to Berkeleyside and The Oaklandside, was recognized for its journalism and the vision and principles it has built for its role in the communities it serves.
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Man charged, again, with bank robberies in Berkeley and Oakland
Sixty-year-old Edwin Herold was convicted in 2010 of robbing the same Berkeley Mechanics Bank branch that was robbed in October, according to court records.
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Home Truths: 2021’s Berkeley real estate market is a picture of high prices and high competition
Despite the pandemic, the Berkeley real estate market has remained incredibly resilient — October single family home sales were their highest since 2003. (Sponsored.)
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East Bay restaurant openings and closings in November
This month, the East Bay welcomed Ono Bakehouse, Black Star Pirate BBQ and 15 new restaurants, and said goodbye to Corso, the Albatross Pub and 13 other food businesses.
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The Sit List: 5 things to do to stay fit and entertained around the holidays
Run off holiday eating with the 2020 Revenge of the Bird Virtual 5K Turkey Trot, shop a Black women-owned business holiday marketplace — plus poetry, art and a variety show.
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Man sustains head injury in hit-and-run crash in Berkeley
“It was a pretty hectic scene,” police said.
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For this Berkeley woman, the University Avenue fire has left her with no place to live
Marsha Tolliver had to leave the room she was renting and was forced to choose between buying a uniform for work or paying for a hotel.
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First Person: On the eve of Thanksgiving, so shines a good deed
Sometimes this year’s overwhelming darkness provides a kind of canvas onto which acts of true goodness can be spotlit.
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Robin Sloan: Berkeley and its casual geniuses
Most places in the world have a genius or two. Berkeley is thick with them, and people who live here get to witness all the ways genius can play out, and be recognized — or not.
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How did 200 racetrack workers at Golden Gate Fields get COVID-19?
The track has said 95% of the people who tested positive had no symptoms and that this is likely what allowed the disease to spread so broadly.
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Third death by train in two years on tracks near Berkeley’s Amtrak Station
An Amtrak train hit and killed a 30-year-old man in Berkeley on Nov. 22.
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Small Screen Berkeley: ‘Zappa’ and ‘Flowers of Shanghai’
Watch a documentary about Frank Zappa produced by his son or a Taiwanese period piece that feels like soaking in a warm bubble bath.
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Berkeley bids adieu to the controversial Big People statues
The statues stood on the pedestrian bridge over I-80 for 12 years. It will take 3 days to remove them.
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Ruth Whippman: ‘I don’t make jokes about Berkeley any more’
After 2016, all the jokes about kooky liberals left a bitter taste. The truth is: Berkeley is Finland with sunshine, unrelenting in its commitment to justice, community and thrift.
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Opinion: Mayor ArreguĂn should allow a ‘no confidence’ vote on the Berkeley police chief to proceed
The item Cheryl Davila introduced in July keeps getting postponed, undermining the city’s promise of a robust community engagement process around reimagining policing.
