In the early hours of June 18, Michael Hastings was found dead in the flaming wreckage of his car. The 33-year-old journalist was, perhaps, best known for the 2010 Rolling Stone cover story that ended ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first in a series about people and businesses that make things in Berkeley. People don’t often think of Berkeley as a factory town, but manufacturing has been going on here ...

Fifty years ago this Thursday, August 6 (Hiroshima Day), a group of Berkeley students and Bay Area peace activists took a stroll down University Avenue and unveiled two large paper banners. One read: ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the last in a series of three articles on La Loma Park. Bernard and Annie Maybeck were always attracted to open land. Rather than build next to other houses, they repeatedly ...

What should progressives do when confronted with the fact that they live in a city that honors a figure who has advocated beliefs or committed acts that progressives would normally condemn? Berkeley ...

You may have heard the astounding statistic estimating that about one in four adults suffer from some type of mental condition in a given year. Additionally, if my memory serves me, one in three ...

The antithesis of human dignity could be humiliation. Many persons with psychiatric illness experience numerous humiliating situations in our lives. Being physically restrained, being forcibly ...

Thirty years ago, people could see that I periodically became psychotic, and they were aware that sometimes I had behavior issues. I was on antipsychotics (which, by the way, I still take to this day) ...

City Council winter recess begins December 15. Tuesday will be the last council meetings until January 18, 2022 unless some emergency dictates another. Monday morning the Budget & Finance Committee ...

A historical mystery set in 1944 Berkeley. One of 2023’s best debuts. This multi-layered mystery features Berkeley Detective Al Sullivan struggling to determine who murdered a presidential candidate, ...

Do you continually say to yourself or to others something that amounts to "Help, poor me"? It doesn't matter. Because if you look deeper than that, you might be able to find an area of consciousness ...

When I was a young man, an eighteen-year-old, to be exact, I was psychotic, and I was unaware that what you do can have consequences. Some consequences of actions, even actions taken at the tender age ...