‘Oh, the places you’ll go!’ with Berkeley’s Wilderness Travel and Backroads
Both travel companies were founded in the 1970s by young adventurers with little business experience — and both…
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Busted backpack? Hiking boots too small? Before you buy new ones, visit these local shops
Narain’s restitches everything from heirloom quilts to sleeping bags, while Berkeley’s REI and Sports Basement…
‘A creative safe house’: Former Cal computer science professor opens experimental art gallery in West Berkeley
West Berkeley’s newest art gallery wants to encourage artists to take risks. Its first exhibition, Working…
This Berkeley winery is using apples and pears to make wine
With its ‘beyond-wine’ project, Moonland, Jason Edward Charles is showing that alternatives to grapes may have a…
Discover 25 local artists and creative vendors under one roof at the Berkeley Holiday Gift Fair
On Dec. 8, the Hotel Shattuck Plaza downtown hosts the one-stop experience for shoppers seeking hand-crafted…
Berkeley Potters Guild celebrates a half-century of crafting ceramics, from mugs to museum pieces
The West Berkeley collective is home to 18 potters with a wide variety of styles.
The natural wine movement is coming for your wine glass
A pioneer of the Bay Area’s natural wine movement, Broc Cellars is no stranger to challenging the status quo.
West Berkeley makers do it all, from age-old crafts to 21st-century innovation
October 1, 2021 BERKELEYSIDE — The city’s manufacturing ranges from woodworking to wine-making, and from pouring…
Connection and craft enable Berkeley women entrepreneurs to flourish during the pandemic
November 20, 2020 BERKELEYSIDE — The end of November typically marks the beginning of holiday season, when…
Small Business Week may be postponed, but Berkeley businesses keep innovating
May 6, 2020 BERKELEYSIDE — As the federal government postpones Small Business Week (usually the first…