Chloee Weiner

Berkeley’s Elmwood Cafe will hold a public conversation next week after a local comedian posted an open letter to the cafe on his blog Thursday about being the victim of racist treatment earlier that week.

The Berkeley Student Food Collective launched a fundraising campaign Tuesday after several thousand dollars were stolen from the organization in December.

Two boar heads and skin pelts were found in different Berkeley locations Monday morning.

Police arrested a suspect in connection to one of several cell phone thefts and one cell phone robbery on the UC Berkeley campus Monday.

The third night of the Berkeley protests against the recent grand jury decisions in the deaths of two unarmed black men began peacefully on Monday with about 700 demonstrators marching through the streets of Downtown Berkeley.

About 500 people rallied Sunday for the second night of ongoing demonstrations over recent deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police, after the first night resulted in officers deploying tear gas and rubber bullets on protesters.

Berkeley Police Department officers threw smoke bombs and formed barricades on major downtown Berkeley streets, as demonstrators against recent grand jury decisions on police force shattered shop windows and blocked traffic.

The United Auto Workers Local 2865 union — which represents UC student workers and academic employees — held a systemwide vote Thursday on a ballot that, if passed, will support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel.

It’s been about six months since the campus’s largest student cooperative house was purged of its membership after efforts to alter the house’s culture. All but one of the house’s residents have left, and now, the final remaining member is getting ready to pack his bags.

It’s Saturday night at 924 Gilman Street, and inside, the local punk-rock veterans of La Plebe are just finishing their set.