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Northern California countercultural hot springs resort rebuilds from the ashes FacebookTwitterEmail The old Domes were among the few buildings at Harbin to survive the fire. Freda Moon I’m in a heart-shaped pool, not much larger than a backyard hot tub, with four naked strangers. We’re all masked, which feels odd only because we’re otherwise so exposed. But the nudity isn’t what makes being at Harbin a big deal. And neither is the truly momentous event of my month: getting vaccinated....

People around this country and the world were surprised, shocked, and relieved at the guilty verdict that finally found a policeman accountable for murder. The killing of George Floyd has led to an upsurge of the Black Lives Matter movement and intense scrutiny of the ways that Black and brown citizens are policed. The culture that has allowed police to kill unarmed people of color with impunity is finally being challenged. There are cries in every city to reimagine policing and what genuine p...

FAA abandons plans to reroute flight patterns over Berkeley The announcement came during a public meeting about Oakland and San Francisco airport noise. The FAA is shelving plans to change flight patterns over Berkeley. Credit: Kevin Woblick/Unsplash Berkeley officials celebrated Wednesday night after a Federal Aviation Administration official announced at a public meeting about Oakland and San Francisco airport noise that the FAA is shelving plans to change flight patterns that would have dire...

 (Beth LaBerge/KQED) Jocelyn Foreman was full of nervous energy and dread. It was a crisp morning in early March. She arrived at the Pleasant Hill Community Center to find a handful of men and women in a semicircle outside the sandstone-colored building, clutching folders and holding cell phones. They were there for a foreclosure auction, poised to bid on the house that Foreman rents: a single-story, 1,500-square-foot tract home in Pinole. It’s a simple home, set back from the street, with a...

Slainte in Jack London Square recently reopened, and has been celebrating St. Patrick’s Day since last Friday. Photo: Slainte If you’re the type that needs a fix of corned beef and cabbage on St. Patrick’s Day, here are several East Bay restaurants serving up the dish and other Irish specials today: ALMOND & OAK Almond & Oak is offering a St. Patrick’s Day special this week, featuring housemade corned beef with sauerkraut, potatoes, turnips, carrots, maitake mushrooms and salsa verde ($...

The Berkeley police officer who shot her gun, striking a vehicle linked to a robbery call last summer, was found to have committed no crime, but violated the department’s deadly force rules and was fired, Berkeleyside has learned. Officer Cheri Miller’s gunfire struck the getaway car but hit no one inside it, the police investigation found. One month after the shooting, Berkeley Police Chief Andrew Greenwood — who retired Friday — found that Miller had violated BPD’s use-of-force and ...

Part Three of OUR PANDEMIC YEAR, a week-long series examining how the Covid pandemic has changed our local Jewish world. Debra Schaffner has spent much of the past year working on her first feature-length documentary. “Curse of the Mutant Heirloom” explores how women, including herself, deal with the knowledge that they carry the BRCA gene mutation, which results in increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer and is more prevalent among Ashkenazi Jews. The pandemic prevented Schaffner from ...

Is government-run social housing the solution to the Bay Areas affordability crisis? FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 An aerial view of the North Berkeley BART station and parking lot, a planned site for a future social housing which would create units in buildings for people of varying incomes — low income, middle income and wealthier — and have a pathway to home ownership.Paul Kuroda/Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of5 The green patch of Schlage Lock land at Bayshore and Leland, sout...

The city of Berkeley was the first in the nation to enact exclusionary zoning laws responsible for racial segregation in housing. Earlier this week, Berkeley City Council took a stride toward ending this legacy by voting to do away with single-family zoning.  The resolution, which was unanimously approved during the council’s Tuesday meeting, is a statement of intent signaling the start of the longer process to eliminate single-family zoning throughout the city by 2022. When enacted, the res...

Staffers Ashley (left) and Ella at the new Cupcakin’ Bake Shop location in the former Virginia Bakery space in North Berkeley show off the wares. Photo: Joanna Della Penna When Nosh posted its list of February openings and closings this time last year, there was very little hint as to the looming pandemic lockdown and ongoing months of crisis soon to come. Looking back now, it is remarkable to note that despite the year’s unparalleled challenges, only three of the 18 East Bay food and drink...