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Gov. Jerry Brown is set to continue his climate change charge, joining scientists releasing a 20-page call to action on environmental problems including pollution, extinctions and population growth.

Cloutier will leave his position as program director for public policy, community health and civic engagement at the San Francisco Foundation, where he served for two years.

Clark County prosecutors have charged a third University of California, Berkeley law student in connection with the October beheading of an exotic bird on the Strip.

John Cameron Fogerty achieved fame as the lead singer/songwriter and guitarist in Creedence Clearwater Revival and has since gone on to a chart-topping solo career.

BERKELEYSIDE: The owners a popular Telegraph Avenue ice cream shop have asked Berkeley officials to revoke the permit for a new ice cream take-out window proposed to open right across the street, at Rasputin Music.

For our June issue, we asked fifteen of the Bay Area's best writers to do something a little different.

As previously mentioned on tablehopper , pop-up alumni Grant Gooding, Jess McCarter, and Jeron Thomson were opening ~EASY CREOLE~ in Berkeley, and now it's open.

Is our modern way of eating killing us and our sociability? Michael Pollan serves up an extra large helping of food for thought Pollan speculates about the growing resistance of micro-organisms to antibiotics, on our western diet rich in fats and carbohydrates Photograph: PR Despite the four recipes appended to it, Michael Pollan 's Cooked doesn't ... (more)

Think you can read Charles Darwin's handwriting? Try deciphering this label on a beetle he collected in Tierra del Fuego in 1833.

Stirring new fiction from Isabel Allende, a novel of life after a brother's suicide, a biography of SimA3n Bolivar and more.

Ed. Note: In 2011, California's legislature passed AB 790, a statewide initiative aimed at addressing the growing number of high school graduates unprepared or under-prepared for either college or a career.

Vials of moon dust brought back to Earth by the first men on the moon have been found inside a lab warehouse in California after sitting in storage unnoticed for more than 40 years.

LEGIONS of disembodied brains floating in deep space threaten to undermine our understanding of the universe.

On a recent Sunday in April, conductor Mary Chun lowered her baton after the final sparkling note of Bonjour M. Gauguin , a new chamber opera produced by Berkeley-based West Edge Opera.

Spanning six major North American cities this year, Clitoral Mass 2013 will kick off Saturday, May 25 in Oakland.

Premium Rush . With a brewery tour and food for sale. Benefitting the East Bay Bicycle Coalition.

The Center for Investigative Reporting, a Berkeley, Calif.-based nonprofit news center, will consolidate its three different reporting strands under one name as of May 29.

"First of all. Congratulations to all you graduates. It is not an easy or trouble free path that you pursued to arrive at this moment.

On a recent Saturday evening in Berkeley, eight vendors set up tables inside the Firehouse Art Collective's hangar-like event space to sell homemade food items, which ranged from chocolate chip cookies to jars of mustard and jam.

UC Berkeley on Monday plowed under a field planted by activists, the third time in just over a week the university has taken such an action.