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Cleopatra VII, often simply called "Cleopatra," was the last of a series of rulers called the Ptolemies who ruled Egypt for nearly 300 years.

The council at its March 11 meeting voted 6-3 to place the redistricting ordinance the council approved in December -- the target of a successful referendum -- before the voters.

Ceri Smith of San Francisco's Tosca Cafe is one of Food & Wine's 2014 Sommeliers of the Year.

In the digital age, do we need librarians? A late-February skirmish on the UC Berkeley campus provides a resounding, affirmative reply.

Some might say it was a very Berkeley moment when a standing-room-only crowd of neighborhood activists and supporters of a mom and pop cafe convinced the City Council this week to say "no" to a new Starbucks coffee shop in their neighborhood.

Whether librarians and faculty like it or not, Wikipedia remains at the heart of the research process for many undergraduate students.

There's not much I like less than kumbaya cuisine, which is what I dreaded when Gather opened in late 2009.

St. Patrick's Day is Monday, yet there's no reason why you have to wait until then to start celebrating all things Irish.

According to a post on their Facebook page , ~BARKADA~ in Oakland is going to begin offering full service .

When faced with a strange, new gizmo, preschoolers figured out how it worked more quickly than college students did, a new study shows.

A former Berkeley police chief who led the department for eight years died Monday after a brief illness, city officials said.

Police are looking for a man who attempted to kidnap a woman as she was walking home alone in Berkeley on Friday night.

A former Berkeley police chief who led the department for eight years died Monday after a brief illness, city officials said.

Last week, I wrote about a brewing controversy at Newman Hall Holy Spirit Parish in Berkeley regarding the dismissal of two beloved priests - one who has spoken openly about being gay.

CSO - University researchers have developed a technique that governments and Internet service providers could use to bypass secured Internet connections and gather valuable personal information.

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley used an electrical current to shepherd cells in different directions and into fantastic shapes, a technique that could be useful in creating tissues.

The American-Scandinavian Foundation is pleased to present Kathryn Roszak's San Francisco-based Danse Lumire in the New York premiere of "Secrets on the Way, at New York's Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue .

As part of its continuing series on the "Future of the Internet," the Pew Research Center asked a group of thinkers in science and technology about what the Internet - turning 25 years old on Wednesday - might look like in another 10 years.

We're going to die." More to the point, if you know the meanings of the words anthropocene and paleoecology , you will want to attend the last in a series of novel free public lectures that takes place this week at SFU Harbour Centre .

Over the past 22 years, cheeky impresario Patrick Dooley has steered the Shotgun Players from the basement of a pizzeria to the front ranks of the Bay Area theater scene.