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How the California Environmental Quality Act Fails the Environment

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How the California Environmental Quality Act Fails the Environment

Critics correctly blame the law for making it too easy to block housing construction. But it also fails far too frequently to protect wildlife habitat.

By Alastair Bland

Music

Move Over, Austin City Limits

Move Over, Austin City Limits

By j. poet

Arts Feature

Fresh Meat's Oakland DNA

Fresh Meat's Oakland DNA

By D. Scot Miller

Restaurant Review

Berkeley's Most Wanted

Berkeley's Most Wanted

By Katherine Hamilton

News & Opinion

Feature

How the California Environmental Quality Act Fails the Environment

How the California Environmental Quality Act Fails the Environment

Critics correctly blame the law for making it too easy to block housing construction. But it also fails far too frequently to protect wildlife habitat.

By Alastair Bland

News

Berkeley and the Road Not Taken

Berkeley and the Road Not Taken

In contrast with its 2010 attitude toward transit improvements on Telegraph Avenue, the city now seems to see bike and bus lanes as the future of a denser San Pablo Avenue.

By Diego Aguilar-Canabal

Marcus Thompson on Kevin Durant

Moe's Books

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Arts & Culture

Arts Feature

Fresh Meat's Oakland DNA

Fresh Meat's Oakland DNA

As transgender art organization has evolved, many of its artists have relocated to The Town.

By D. Scot Miller

JoAnn Biagini, Carlo Fantin, Pantea Karimi

Mercury 20 Gallery

Once on This Island

Contra Costa Civic Theatre

Two Japonist Artists

Manna Gallery

Savage Love

Shop Around

Shop Around

Where do I find a male sex worker to help me get off?

By Dan Savage

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Food & Drink

Restaurant Review

Berkeley's Most Wanted

Berkeley's Most Wanted

Notoriously delicious halal food.

By Katherine Hamilton

Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony with Anfilo Coffee

Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology

BatchMade Market

Batchmade Market

Forage Kitchen

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Movies

Movie Review

Attack of the Hipsters: <i>The Dead Don’t Die</i>

Attack of the Hipsters: The Dead Don’t Die

Worn-out movie subgenres don’t die either. Ask Jim Jarmusch.

By Kelly Vance

Movie Review

Leave Crime to the Professionals

Leave Crime to the Professionals

Denys Arcand’s The Fall of the American Empire is more of a goofball comedy than a satire.

By Kelly Vance

57,000 Channels and Nothing's On

57,000 Channels and Nothing's On

TV-show insider comedy Late Night makes its points, but needs sharper laughs.

By Kelly Vance

He's Not Alone:<i> The Last Black Man in San Francisco</i>

He's Not Alone: The Last Black Man in San Francisco

Director Joe Talbot's debut feature is truly sad, but rewarding.

By Kelly Vance

Stop, What's That Sound? Only the <i>Echo in the Canyon</i>

Stop, What's That Sound? Only the Echo in the Canyon

Rockumentary wanders around a storied LA locale.

By Kelly Vance

Cereal Cinema at The New Parkway Theater

Cereal Cinema

The New Parkway Theater

Halston

Ma

The Secret Life of Pets 2

Captain Marvel

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Music

Music

Move Over, Austin City Limits

Move Over, Austin City Limits

With Live From the Freight & Salvage, Berkeley’s venerable roots music venue makes a bid for national recognition.

By j. poet

Chromeo / Toro y Moi / Noname

Greek Theatre-U.C. Berkeley

Kofy Brown's Souful Get Down

Ivy Room

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Thursday's Briefing: Legislature to vote on $214 billion state budget; Oakland City Council backs Howard Terminal bills

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Flint’s BBQ Is Coming Back to the Town

The historic, long-shuttered beloved Oakland BBQ joint is returning this summer as a pop-up.
Eating Mushrooms Isn’t Like Smoking a Joint

Oakland follows Denver's lead in decriminalizing psilocybin and other psychedelic plants.
How the California Environmental Quality Act Fails the Environment

Critics correctly blame the law for making it too easy to block housing construction. But it also fails far too frequently to protect wildlife habitat.
Move Over, Austin City Limits

With Live From the Freight & Salvage, Berkeley’s venerable roots music venue makes a bid for national recognition.
Oakland's Budget Battle Heats Up

The city's current budget season has become a veritable kabuki of familiar players and conflicts.

Recycling's Sword of Damocles

China's unwillingness to keep buying low-value U.S. waste has destroyed the industry's economics, but the truth is that far too much of what we throw in the recycling bin has always just been garbage.
Alameda's Radical Plan to Resist Climate Change

The small town has big ideas for how to reduce its carbon footprint.
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Flint’s BBQ Is Coming Back to the Town

The historic, long-shuttered beloved Oakland BBQ joint is returning this summer as a pop-up.

Flint’s BBQ Is Coming Back to the Town

The historic, long-shuttered beloved Oakland BBQ joint is returning this summer as a pop-up.
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Recycling's Sword of Damocles

China's unwillingness to keep buying low-value U.S. waste has destroyed the industry's economics, but the truth is that far too much of what we throw in the recycling bin has always just been garbage.
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Alameda's Radical Plan to Resist Climate Change

The small town has big ideas for how to reduce its carbon footprint.
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Eating Mushrooms Isn’t Like Smoking a Joint

Oakland follows Denver's lead in decriminalizing psilocybin and other psychedelic plants.
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Oakland's Budget Battle Heats Up

The city's current budget season has become a veritable kabuki of familiar players and conflicts.
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