By Shannon Lavelle
Where does your empty water bottle go after you toss it in the recycling bin? Join the BCC Voice as we follow your bottle on its journey across the city, and beyond. Continue reading Tales From the Bin
With its unique version of deli fare, The Butcher’s Son on University Avenue extends the appeal of vegan food to a wider audience. Continue reading Vegan for Everyone
By Julie Villanueva
In the tech-driven arena of San Francisco, it’s unorthodox for artists to live in such a fast-moving and busy city. See how one illustrator pushed through. Continue reading From Community College to Comic Book Artist
By Julie Villanueva
Places to Play Music in Berkeley Continue reading Silent Campus
By Julie Villanueva
Experience Berkeley’s heart and soul by lending a helping hand Continue reading How to Win Friends and Influence Universities…Through Community Service
By Shannon Lavelle
The BCC Voice digs deep — in this case, through Bay Area dumpsters — to reveal the truth about supermarket food waste. Continue reading Trash Talk
By Adam Mann
“The SF Weekly food critic keeps coming out to Oakland and stealing my stories.” Riding the rising wave of the Bay Area restaurant scene, food writer and managing editor for The East Bay Express, Janelle Bitker, has her finger on a special pulse point in our community. She joined our journalist for coffee and a discussion about representation in the restaurant scene, rising rents and relocation, and the logistics of managing, writing and making time to go out and dine. Continue reading An Arbiter of Taste
By Summer Vodnoy
Beneath the vitriol and vanity of social media platforms is a thriving, often self-made culture of positivity and support. Broadcasting her ideals on Youtube, Instagram and other platforms, Vanessa Manley swirls business, opinion and activism into a distinctly modern concoction. She shares with The BCC Voice her motivations and struggles promoting self-love within a culture of commodification and commercialized beauty. Continue reading Promoting Self-Love
By Liz Zarka
For someone of the school of thought that art can be separated from life, comedian Tracy Nguyen is nevertheless endlessly informed by her own surroundings. She is a sex comic who isn’t having a lot of sex and an unsatisfied tech employee that performs for audiences composed largely of techies. Nguyen riffs with our reporter on Andre the Giant, doctors and orthopedic surgeons, solving homelessness in San Francisco and other topics comedians are completely unqualified to cover, but must if we’re all to keep our heads. Continue reading Mining for Laughs (Not Bitcoin)
