City Council Considers Sanctions In one of the largest acts of civil disobedience in recent memory, city residents massed in North Berkeley to protest Chez Panisse’s annexation of Cesar. Throngs of demonstrators with signs reading “We Want Paella” and “Community Over Profit” denounced Alice Waters for her “culinary aggression” against an independent dining establishment. Waters […]
Category: Food & Lifestyle
Shroom Zoom: A Stealth Transportation Service for the Discrete Forager
New Ride Share AP Targets the Cut Throat World of Wild Mushroom Foraging As the March rains saturate the East Bay hills, the ground springs to life with grasses, wild flowers and mycological delicacies. For many it’s time to enjoy hikes, bike rides and picnics, but for fungophiles its hunting season. One of their biggest […]
Paucity of Political Grievance Causing City Coffee Sales to Plummet
Berkeley Officials Look to VP Harris for Stimulus Support During the first round of stimulus negotiations Berkeley lobbied hard for the Three Chai Lattes Tax Credit. Today local coffee merchants are citing greater economic hardship and lobbying Vice President Harris to “help the home team.” Apparently, the comparative lack of political drama coming from the […]
Burgled Nextdoor — Social Media Dedicated to Anti-Social Behavior
New Site Aims to Stem the Exodus of Users The social media platform Nextdoor has been undergoing an exodus of users and is launching a new service to address their grievance: Burgled Nextdoor. Initially, the communication team thought users were simply migrating to the Best of Nextdoor Twitter feed. However, monitoring of the Twitter feed […]
What Is Berkeley Listening To? A New #1 for 2021
What is Berkeley Listening To tracks the latest media trends. Based on data from streaming services, retail sales, and bootlegging. Capitol Records new release 11,780 Georgians on My Mind has leapt to the #1 position among Berkeley residents. The album featuring Donald Trump and Brad Raffensperger provides over an hour of non-stop treasonous innuendo. The […]
Local Butcher Shop Introduces Learning Annex
Passionate customer services for Berkeley’s demanding consumer The Local Butcher Shop is one of those Berkeley retailers that brings passion to customer service and will go to extraordinary lengths to provide detailed information about the provenance of their products. As social distancing requirements have limited the number of customers in the shop, this individualized attention, […]
Bunion Co-Founder Humpy Stiverson Receives Award for Excellence in Investigative Journalism for 2019 Work
The Bunion’s Humpy Stiverson has received the coveted Chauncey Bailey award for Excellence in Investigative Journalism for his work as a freelancer in the Berkeleyside comments section. Under a pseudonym, Stiverson was the first to refute the UC Berkeley School of Public Health’s report that soda consumption was down 52% in the three years after […]
Defund the Police Begins with Turkey Patrols
A Turkey Patrol officer calms traffic on one of Berkeley’s rare surfaced streets The first phase of the new Berkeley Department of Transportation (BerkDOT) has begun with the deployment of Turkey Patrols throughout the city. Charged with traffic calming and vehicle inspection, the Patrols are stopping vehicles at random locations. As a commitment to addressing […]
Ask The Bunion: Making Sense of a Strange Holiday Party Non-Invitation
Ask The Bunion is a periodic column offering expert guidance to our readers. Questions are welcome at BunionBerkeley@gmail.com This week’s columnist is prison psychiatrist and footwear model Archie Payne. I received this e-card with a non-invitation to the event of the season. I’m terribly disappointed but also confused. The card says “It’s a wierd time […]
Berkeley Lobbies Representative for “Three Chai Latte Lunch” Tax Credit
Move Intended to Bolster Cafe Economy & Political Proselytizing After President Trump pushed through his “three-martini lunch” tax deduction as a means to boost the restaurant economy, the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce saw an opportunity to bolster the city’s famous cafe economy. The Chamber worked with representative Barbara Lee to push for a 500% tax […]