Shattuck

Berkeley’s dining and shopping options are far from limited with a range of restaurants and businesses that cover just about everything. One thing you won’t find much of: chains.

In its 27th year of production, Street Spirit continues to stand out as a far-from-ordinary source of news and advocacy in the East Bay. The paper is written entirely by and for unhoused people and their advocates, allowing those affected by poverty and houselessness to report on issues important to them.

Whether that means more stop signs or better pedestrian walkways, the city has to do something. Nobody should feel unsafe crossing the street.

Here are five Berkeley restaurant to impress your parents’ palates and prove to them that you’ve been eating well since you left the nest.

Roxie Delicatessen, located at 2999 Shattuck Ave., has been owned and operated by the same person for the last 30 years, who has now decided to retire and sell the store, according to new property owner Diana Days.

Theaters aren’t going anywhere, at least for Berkeley. The city’s cinema scene has managed to exist outside the typical film industry narrative.

Amid growing divisions in American society, there is a unifying light: love of pizza. On Feb. 1, Pizza Lovers Month begins in Berkeley.

After weeks of protests by animal rights activist group Direct Action Everywhere, or DXE, since April, The Local Butcher Shop on Shattuck Avenue ceded to demands of DXE protesters, namely by posting a sign on the business's window reading, “Attention: Animals’ lives are their right. Killing them is violent and unjust, no matter how it’s done.”