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Lantern Festival lures many back to Oakland’s Chinatown
February 6, 2023
Oakland’s Chinatown was transformed Sunday into a vibrant street market, where the aroma of cooking food mingled with the crackle of conversation and the bright colors of balloons and paper lanterns. Beneath a canopy of floating red lanterns, vendors hawked rib and radish soup, boba tea, and pineapple buns.
DATA VISUALIZATION: How far are we from a low-carbon power system?
Janurary 30, 2023
Despite producing more and more energy from renewables each year, we continue to burn more combustible fuels. The following interactive charts show the energy production mix from 1990 to 2019. We will explore how energy production varies across the world, how it changes over time, and whether we are making progress in shifting towards a low-carbon energy system.
‘It’s just a beautiful experience’: Community groups plant trees to make Verde school greener
December 3, 2022
For years, even on hot mornings and afternoons, Verde Elementary School students have spent heir recess and physical education periods on a cracked and sun-drenched blacktop — a wide open space with colored lines drawing volleyball courts and soccer fields, a running track along the edge.
Berkeley is ‘making progress’ on Marina food truck village
October 24, 2022
Berkeley can’t find a restaurant for the vast Hs Lordships space, so food trucks in its parking lot might be the next best thing.
Boating's big boom in the Bay Area amid the pandemic
December 17, 2021
“I haven’t had a boat in stock for over a year, and we are waiting for boats coming in next year,” said Jacobsen, owner of The Outboard Motor Shop in Oakland. “Boat sales ever since July of 2020 have just gone crazy. Starting in June and July we sold out of all our boats.”
As local Dungeness crab season delays, San Francisco is selling Washington crabs
November 20, 2021
Thanksgiving is the busiest season for the crab restaurants around San Francisco's Pier 45. A single stall, Crab Station, was selling 500 pounds a day before the pandemic, even though it was surrounded by a row of competitors selling the same Dungeness crabs. “Now, 30 pounds if we’re lucky,” said Caroline Petitt, manager of Crab Station.
A food trucks village for the Berkeley Marina?
November 5, 2021
Anyone who goes to Berkeley Marina will notice the bumpy roads, the stunning views, and the scarcity of food. The Marina complex comprises 60 acres of upland and 40 acres of water but has merely three restaurants, all with floor-to- ceiling windows facing the ocean and San Francisco skyline. But the only casual eating spot is nearly a mile from the waterfront, so visitors who don’t want sitdown dining must bring along their own food.
Family-owned bayside diner eyes new park next door and wonders its future
October 12, 2021
Seabreeze Market & Deli, a family-owned diner on University Avenue near the entrance to the Berkeley Marina, has been serving crab cakes, burgers and fries to bikers and hikers for more than two decades. But its future is now in doubt, ironically at the same time a big neglected bayfront expansion project adjacent to it is finally getting an ambitious, long-awaited makeover.
VIDEO: At Tamales Tamazula, Food is Art
September 13, 2021
Cruz Arroyo owns and operates Tamales Tamazula in Richmond, where his passion for food and tradition drives his business and keeps his customers returning week after week. He’s had to move his business to various spots in Richmond in the past eight years and jump a few hurdles to keep it going during a global pandemic. Through it all, his customers have remained loyal.