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🏀💜🔥 VALKYRIES WNBA FINALS WATCH PARTY AT CALI’S! 🔥💜🏀 🏆 THE ROAD TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP STARTS HERE! 🏆 BERKELEY, ARE YOU READY?! 💜 It’s time to bring the energy, wear your purple, and cheer on our GOLDEN STATE VALKYRIES! 🏀🔥 Join us at Cali’s Sports Bar & Kitchen for the ultimate WNBA Finals Watch Party experience! We’re bringing you the excitement on the big screens, with game sound ON, delicious food, cold drinks, and the best basketball atmosphere in Berkeley! 🍻 💜 WNBA FINALS GAME SCHEDULE: 🏀 GAME 1 — Saturday 10/17 @ 12:30 PM 🏀 GAME 2 — Monday 10/19 @ 5:00 PM 🏀 GAME 3 — Wednesday 10/21 @ 5:00 PM 🏀 GAME 4 — Saturday 10/24 @ 10:00 AM 🏀 GAME 5 — Monday 10/26 @ 5:00 PM 🏀 GAME 6 — Thursday 10/29 @ 5:00 PM 🏀 GAME 7 — Saturday 10/31 @ 5:00 PM 🔥 WHY WATCH AT CALI’S? 📺 MULTIPLE TVs & PROJECTORS 🔊 ALL GAMES WITH SOUND ON! 🌴 PATIO OPEN 🍔 FOOD SPECIALS 🍹 DRINK SPECIALS 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 ALL AGES WELCOME! 📍 CALI’S SPORTS BAR & KITCHEN 2367 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley 💜 Calling all Valkyries fans! Bring your friends, family, and fellow basketball lovers to celebrate every basket, every buzzer-beater, and every unforgettable moment! 🔥 Come early, grab your favorite seat, and let’s turn Cali’s into a sea of PURPLE! 💜 🏆 ONE TEAM. ONE DREAM. ONE CHAMPIONSHIP! 💜 LET’S GO VALKYRIES! 💜 EAT • DRINK • WATCH • CELEBRATE AT CALI’S! 🍻🏀 #GoldenStateValkyries #Valkyries #WNBAFinals #WNBA2026 #ValkyriesNation BayAreaBasketball WomensBasketball WNBAWatchParty CaliSportsBar Berkeley BayAreaSports DubNation BasketballFans WatchParty ClubCali
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Join us for a Halloween-themed Musical Story Time with The Story Time Band and a Spooktacular marionette show with Fratello Marionettes!🎃👻 🎟️FREE! 📍The Freight, 2020 Addison Street in downtown Berkeley ⏰10 AM (doors open at 9:30 AM) Bring the whole family for a fun-filled morning of music, stories, and enchanting puppetry. It’s the perfect way to celebrate Halloween in community! Costumes are welcome! A special thanks to @bplfriends for their generous sponsorship of this event. Will you join us?! Let us know in the comments. History of the Band What began in 2013 as a small musical story time at Berkeley’s Claremont Branch Library has grown into one of the East Bay’s most beloved family traditions. Founded by children’s librarian Michael Kwende (“Mr. Michael”) and retired librarian and guitarist Tim DeWolf, The Story Time Band is now a dynamic ensemble featuring children’s librarian, Juan Castille, library specialist, Donovan Russell, and longtime Berkeley resident and keyboardist Tienne Lee. Blending live music, storytelling, movement, and audience participation, the group transforms books into vibrant, interactive experiences. Children and caregivers don’t just listen, they sing, dance, laugh, and become part of the story. Since its early days in the library, The Story Time Band has expanded to parks, theaters, festivals, and community spaces across the Bay Area. Regularly drawing packed crowds, the ensemble has appeared at KQED Fest, The Freight, the Bay Area Book Festival, Oakland’s Fairyland, and San Quentin’s State Prison’s Family Day, bringing joy and connection to hundreds of families. With infectious energy, a deep sense of community, and a distinctive fusion of music and storytelling, The Story Time Band is redefining family entertainment, creating joyful shared experiences and inspiring a lifelong love of books. Since 2024, the group’s visual world has been shaped by band artist @jromonkey (Jerome Lu), whose vibrant work reflects its playful, imaginative spirit.
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🤡 “Never lied, I just doubled down on wrong information.” — Rhein Amacher That’s quite a defense for spreading a false claim about James Talarico. Accountability called. Apparently, nobody answered. 🎪 📣 Tomorrow, October 17: show up peacefully for No Kings. Bring your voice. Bring your signs. Leave the circus to these guys. 🚫👑 No kings. No excuses. We deserve the truth. #NoKings #NoKingsDay #TruthMatters #PoliticalCartoon #TexasPolitics
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📰 We’re in the news! Thank you @berkeleyside for writing about how we harnessed the love that was wrapped up in the grief of loosing our beloved @the_berkeley_school ECC and transmuted it into the joyful beginning of Moon Pop Play Studios! 🔗Link to article in bio
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$300 million in new debt?!💰 Actually, Measure U could cost Berkeley taxpayers roughly $620 million over four decades! Yet it fails to prioritize the critical, long-lasting infrastructure that should justify long-term debt Bonds should have a clear purpose. Read the Berkeleyside op-ed coauthored by Affordable Berkeley’s Geoff Lomax and let us know your thoughts. Link 🔗 in bio #AffordableBerkeley #Berkeley #MeasureU #Berkeleyside #BerkeleyCA Paid for by AffordableBerkeley.org FPPC ID 1496744
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🎨💚 ART. HEALTH. COMMUNITY. CONNECTION. What an incredible evening at our Zero Empty Spaces Berkeley location for PRESCRIBING CONNECTION: Art, Health & Social Prescribing! 🔥 Over 100 people came through our doors, transforming a once-vacant bookstore into a vibrant hub of creativity, community, connection, and collaboration! Social prescribing recognizes something powerful: health and well-being go far beyond traditional medicine. 🎨 Art, music, creative expression, social connections, and community engagement can help reduce isolation, support mental health, strengthen relationships, and improve quality of life. And what better place to explore these possibilities than inside a previously vacant storefront, now being transformed into an affordable creative hub for local artists? At Zero Empty Spaces, we're not just filling vacancies or creating affordable artist studios. We're creating SPACES OF POSSIBILITY, where artists thrive, communities connect, local economies benefit, and creativity becomes a catalyst for positive change. Seeing our Berkeley space come alive with so many people, meaningful conversations, live art, music, and new relationships was a powerful reminder of why we do what we do. 🙏 A HUGE THANK YOU to the incredible people and organizations who brought this experience to life! 💚 Jackie Ourman — Social Connection Collective & Values Aligned Therapy 💚 Dr. Alan Siegel — Social Prescribing USA 💚 Amber Carroll — Front Porch Communities & Services 💚 Nandini Singh — UCSF / Northern California Coalition for Social Prescribing 💚 Elizabeth Duran — Open Source Wellness And to all the participating artists, musicians, volunteers, community advocates, and everyone who joined us to explore the intersection of arts, health, and social connection, THANK YOU! 🙌 Special appreciation to Social Prescribing USA, Social Connection Collective, Front Porch Communities & Services, UCSF, Open Source Wellness, and everyone working to make social prescribing and meaningful community connection more accessible. #ZeroEmptySpaces #PrescribingConnection #SocialPrescribing #ArtsAndHealth #DowntownBerkeley
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One Day Workshop in the Conference Center at the exquisite @ucbgarden November 5, 2026 Registration link in bio or message me for more info
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West Edge Opera is excited to announce the lineup for our 2027 Summer Festival, running July 31 through August 15. “West Edge Opera is a company where lovers of the art form come not because they want the familiar but because they know we explore new and different.This season fully embraces that– a season completely unknown to nearly all opera lovers: a world premiere, a new devised baroque opera, and the American premiere of a work by a genius whose life was cut off far too early by war. These bold and daring choices are now our calling card,” says General Director Mark Streshinky.
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Berkeley’s Zoning Adjustments Board reviewed two separate eight-story residential projects on the same evening. One was the 68-unit Amoeba building on Telegraph. The other is 74 apartments at 2955 Shattuck Avenue in South Berkeley, replacing a row of low-rise commercial buildings. The number worth holding onto isn’t 74. It’s two, as in two projects of this scale in front of one board in one night. The preliminary application for the Shattuck site dates to late 2023. Nearly three years to reach a hearing is normal, and it’s the single most misunderstood thing about development news. A hearing is not an approval. An approval is not a building. Most people see a rendering and assume a timeline that doesn’t exist. Buyers: South Berkeley has been where buyers could still find an entry point in this city. That’s still true today and it will likely still be true next year. The corridor changing character is a five-year question, not a next-spring question. Sellers: if you own along Shattuck, the direction of travel is more density, not less. Is this the type of development you like to see in Berkeley? What are your thoughts? Share them in the comments below #BerkeleyCA #EastBayRealEstate #BayAreaRealEstate #SouthBerkeley #Shattuck 🧔🏾‍♂️Derrick Tyler - Lederer Team | Red Oak Realty 🪪DRE: 1954708 📧Derrick@TheLedererTeam.com 📱415.310.7453
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Kelly Richardson (@kellyinmotion) at Berkeley Storytelling Festival, created and hosted by @diaspora.arts.connection
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We’re back at @cityofberkeley Frances Albrier Community Center located at 2800 Park St. on the grounds of San Pablo Park! Join us for Musical Story Time at this lovely location on second Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. throughout the fall season: 🗓️ Sept. 10, Oct. 8, Nov. 12 & Dec. 10 Enjoy joyful mornings filled with songs, stories, and movement, a perfect activity for little ones and their grownups. These events are FREE for everyone. We can’t wait to see you there! History of the Band What began in 2013 as a small musical story time at Berkeley’s Claremont Branch Library has grown into one of the East Bay’s most beloved family traditions. Founded by children’s librarian Michael Kwende (“Mr. Michael”) and retired librarian and guitarist Tim DeWolf, The Story Time Band is now a dynamic ensemble featuring children’s librarian, Juan Castille, library specialist, Donovan Russell, and longtime Berkeley resident and keyboardist Tienne Lee. Blending live music, storytelling, movement, and audience participation, the group transforms books into vibrant, interactive experiences. Children and caregivers don’t just listen, they sing, dance, laugh, and become part of the story. Since its early days in the library, The Story Time Band has expanded to parks, theaters, festivals, and community spaces across the Bay Area. Regularly drawing packed crowds, the ensemble has appeared at KQED Fest, The Freight, the Bay Area Book Festival, Oakland’s Fairyland, and San Quentin’s State Prison’s Family Day, bringing joy and connection to hundreds of families. With infectious energy, a deep sense of community, and a distinctive fusion of music and storytelling, The Story Time Band is redefining family entertainment, creating joyful shared experiences and inspiring a lifelong love of books. Since 2024, the group’s visual world has been shaped by band artist @jromonkey (Jerome Lu), whose vibrant work reflects its playful, imaginative spirit.
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Lupe Gallegos-Diaz @lupegallegosdiaz just brought $1 million for @ucberkeleyofficial to support Latine Students. This is a major victory for CAL, so Chancellor Lyons @ucberkeleychancellor why put her on leave? Why is CAL not responding! Write to the Chancellor and UC Board if Regents! Bring Lupe Back! @thrive4lupe
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