Berkeley News

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.

Join us at the Hyatt Century Plaza Los Angeles, where we will be covering the major topics in commercial real estate nationally as well as what's going on across the property types in Los Angeles.

BERKELEYSIDE: Every year on the anniversary of her fiance's killing, Tiffieny Dean makes a pilgrimage to the Berkeley Police Department to remind detectives that, three years later, the case is still open .

Police continue to ask for the public's help in identifying and locating a man suspected of trying to kidnap a 23-year-old Berkeley woman last Friday night.

Police continue to ask for the public's help in identifying and locating a man suspected of trying to kidnap a 23-year-old Berkeley woman last Friday night.

Pacific Cookie Company recently opened a store near the UC Berkeley campus, the company's first East Bay retail location.

In this photo released by the New York Philharmonic, Lorin Maazel conducts the orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall, Thursday, June 25, 2009 in New York.

The Kentucky senator is planning to deliver a speech about National Security Agency overreach at the University of California, Berkeley, next Wednesday, according to a notice on the school's website.

Local 123 has been at the leading edge of the East Bay coffee scene since it opened in 2009.

Alice Waters, a chef and local food advocate, will speak at Sterling College in Craftsbury April 3. Waters is perhaps best known for Chez Panisse, her Berkeley, Calif., restaurant.

The findings suggest that technology and innovation can benefit from the exploratory learning and probabilistic reasoning skills that come naturally to young children, many of whom are learning to use smartphones even before they can tie their shoelaces.

Preschoolers with iPads work with a casual speed that can mystify those whose "Generation" begins with B and sometimes even X or Y. But it's not really a mystery.

Mixing one of the most dynamic and responsive acoustic pianists of her generation with a former fill-in for Keith Moon may seem at first glance to be a recipe for disastrous imbalance.

Public health agencies throughout the Bay Area and the state have unveiled a new campaign based on the idea that people are only as healthy as the offerings at their nearest store.