Café Fanny to open in Berkeley with granola bowls and coffee
Owner Cassandra Chen will open the cafe and retail store on University Avenue in the space previously occupied by Flour & Co.
Cirrus Wood is a writer and photographer living in downtown Berkeley. His work has appeared in California Magazine, McSweeney's and The Bold Italic. He works the Oakland beat for Hoodline and is a regular contributor to San Francisco AIDS Foundation's BETABlog. There are few things he enjoys as much as playing around with the alphabet.
Does the East Bay care that California has banned foie gras again?
We checked in with restaurants, markets and an animal rights group in Berkeley and Oakland to get their reaction to the new Ninth Court ruling against foie gras.
Controversial Temescal beer garden hopes to win over skeptics
Golden Road Brewing has scaled back its plans to appease locals' concerns, but will it be enough for the corporate-owned brewery to open?
East Bay food-justice movement has deep roots in Black Panther Party
Echoes of social justice programs that the Black Panther Party started resonate within current East Bay food-justice groups.
Berkeley requires kids’ meals to include milk or water, not soda
Berkeley City Council passed the "healthy by default" bill in July that prevents soda from being included in children's fast food meals.
Breaking bread, building community at Hella Black Brunch
This ongoing pop-up event celebrating the Black experience was the direct result of the organizers’ concern for minority voices after the election of 2016.
Berkeley’s Sugarlogix is engineering a sugar that’s good for you
Currently on hot desk at UC Berkeley accelerator SkyDeck, this startup is making prebiotic sugars, ones that promote good gut health.
How people living on the streets in Berkeley find their food
Seven individuals talk about how they get food and what they eat living on the streets of Berkeley.
What you should know about the Berkeley straw ban proposal
The city of Berkeley will look at the potential impact of a city-wide ban on the use of single-use plastic straws.
On National Donut Day: 5 East Bay shops to get your fried dough fix
We visited five shops in Berkeley and Oakland serving up some of the East Bay’s best donuts.
Why yes, those are robot delivery minions at UC Berkeley
Kiwi, a new on-demand delivery service using a fleet of robots, emerged from UC Berkeley’s LAUNCH program for startups.
