Berkeley

Audiograph's Sound of the Week: Berkeley's Thai Buddhist Temple

Julie Caine — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 06:04:09 +0000

All week long we've been playing you this sound, and asking you to guess what exactly it is and where exactly in the Bay Area we recorded it.

Hear Here: Ashby Flea Market

Alyssa Kapnik — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 01:53:28 +0000

To hear great recorded music, especially the rare classics, you can either buy it from a dwindling number of record stores, or you can find it at places like the flea market. Reporter Alyssa Kapnik spoke to shoppers Grant, and Thamsanqa Hlatywayo, and long-time vendors, Daryl Mitchell and David Dean.

THAMSANQA HLATYWAYO: Drums, to start with. When you come in you just hear all this drumming.

GRANT: Just a mish-mash of everything. Ashby Flea Market is just one of the weirder flea markets around here.

Cannabis News Roundup: October 27, 2012

Steven Short — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 20:12:30 +0000

East Bay Express: Berkeley at a crossroads

Robert Gammon — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 00:05:30 +0000

On a recent weekday, Fourth Street between Bancroft and Allston ways in West Berkeley was mostly abandoned. Unlike the upscale stretch of shops and eateries on the other side of University Avenue, this section of Fourth Street, a former hub of West Berkeley's once bustling industrial and warehouse sector, is now an empty reminder of glory days gone by.

Today on Your Call: How and why did the FBI target radicals at UC Berkeley in the 60s?

Ali Budner — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 07:00:00 +0000

On today's Your Call, we’ll speak with Seth Rosenfeld, author of Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals and Reagan's Rise to Power. “Ultimately,” says Rosenfeld, “this is a cautionary tale about the dangers of secrecy and power.” Join us at 10am PST or post a comment here. What are your memories of activism in Berkeley in the 60s? Or if you’re involved today, have you experienced repression? It’s Your Call with Holly Kernan, and you.

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