A worker from Berkeley’s Urban Ore has opened a museum celebrating … wingnuts
Started by employees of the salvage store during a union drive, the Wingnut Museum — honoring both the tiny metal doodads and the “freaks and weirdos” of the world — now has a permanent Berkeley home.
Berkeley gun violence: $2M pilot contract awarded to East Bay-born Live Free USA
The national nonprofit will work with the McGee Avenue Baptist Church, Berkeley Junior Jackets and the Oakland-based National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform to try to curb gun violence in Berkeley.
Around Berkeley: Belly dancing and Latin festivals; Y&T at Cornerstone
Other events include a Karla Cornejo Villavicencio book talk and a screening of a documentary about the Studio Guild Cinema
Berkeley ballots to feature a dozen local measures this November
Voters will decide in November whether to levy new taxes to fix roads and sidewalks, extend the soda tax, increase library and parks taxes, restructure Measure P, tax natural gas use and invoke new air quality restrictions in city buildings.
La Peña Cultural Center is facing a financial crisis
The South Berkeley hub for music, art, and activism has been in “emergency mode” since COVID-era grant funds ran out. It’s hoping to raise $50,000 by September
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Hard knocks for Nox, UC Berkeley’s youngest peregrine falcon
But thanks to UC Davis veterinarians and other helpers, his broken wing is mending.