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Furenzu describes their cuisine as "new wave Asian
cuisine served tapas style." They try to use organic and fresh ingredients. Their bathroom is freaking GORGEOUS.
I can't help it. I can't...
Furenzu describes their cuisine as "new wave Asian
cuisine served tapas style." They try to use organic and fresh ingredients. Their bathroom is freaking GORGEOUS.
I can't help it. I can't think of this restaurant without thinking of their bathroom. The whole place is gorgeous, but the bathroom is so cool. I mean, the sink is like a golden basin set on top of a dresser. But it's a sink!
They are fun: they do things like have people email them for free drinks coupons to celebrate their anniversary, or give people a free appetizer if they can guess what on the menu is "in a nest." The menu itself is cute: different sections are named things like "not yet large plates," and items are called things like "shrimp in a nest" and other cute wonders. Some items can be too sweet, but by and large it is a tasty place.
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KALX always confused me, because their DJs didn't seem to all be college students. In fact, as I later learned, anyone who wants to can have their own weekly show on KALX, about whatever they want,...
KALX always confused me, because their DJs didn't seem to all be college students. In fact, as I later learned, anyone who wants to can have their own weekly show on KALX, about whatever they want, provided that they go through a training and volunteer a certain number of hours around the station. Now that's community radio! KALX plays all kinds of interesting and weird stuff, and the DJs love explaining what you just heard. I wish other radio stations would bother to back-announce the way they do. Plus, they have really great local magazine and news programs. Go KALX!
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1929 Martin Luther King Jr Way
Berkeley, California 94704
(510) 848-6767
Where else can you find a news show written and produced by teenagers of color, about whatever they think is important? What other news stations have bilingual shows, where the presenter switches...
Where else can you find a news show written and produced by teenagers of color, about whatever they think is important? What other news stations have bilingual shows, where the presenter switches back and forth between Spanish and English at his liking? What other station devotes itself to folk music on Sundays, including an hour-long show about First Nations music and issues? Where else will you learn something any time you tune in, probably something that will make you righteously angry or totally fascinated?
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That may be an overly harsh evaluation of Alice. I began listening to it in college, thrilled that I had found a station that actually played women (I'm looking at you, Live 105, you losers) and...
That may be an overly harsh evaluation of Alice. I began listening to it in college, thrilled that I had found a station that actually played women (I'm looking at you, Live 105, you losers) and that played songs I loved from a few years before. They don't stop playing something just because the next hit has come along, which was a nice change after years of flighty Top 40 Clearchannel stations. They are, however, sort of Live 105 Lite - I swear they play the same things except they replace the screamo music with love songs. And what good is that? I want to love them again, but their music slowed down so much after I graduated.
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Four dollars for a slice of a big one, or little individual tarts... OR, you could spend like twenty-something dollars on a giant whole tart of your very own. Tart to Tart has several locations, and...
Four dollars for a slice of a big one, or little individual tarts... OR, you could spend like twenty-something dollars on a giant whole tart of your very own. Tart to Tart has several locations, and places to sit down, and one is right on the N Judah line. Don't pollute, eat a tart! They have a lemon raspberry custard tart, mixed fruit tarts, and a "regular" tart with custard and roasted apricot halves, sweet and sour and tart and delicious.
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Who doesn't fantasize about discovering a five-star jewel hidden away somewhere? Tekka is that jewel: a nine-seat Japanese restaurant in the inner Richmond, with not even a sign announcing its...
Who doesn't fantasize about discovering a five-star jewel hidden away somewhere? Tekka is that jewel: a nine-seat Japanese restaurant in the inner Richmond, with not even a sign announcing its presence (although you can see the restaurant through the windows, and its House Rules are posted next to the door). The prices are high: my friend and I split the sashimi combo appetizer (not on the menu but gleaned from others' reviews) at $18.50, and filled out the rest of our meal with incredible nigiri (fish cut so big you could hardly see the rice, $2.50 each) and a small plate of grilled mushrooms ($5)... we ended up full having basically split an appetizer and maybe an entree's worth of food, which is good because it added up to about $46 after tax.
And we'd do it again, any time: the fish is incredible, much fresher than other sushi joints', cut perfectly and lavishly. Seriously, I didn't even think that my friend's yellowtail nigiri HAD rice underneath it, because the fish was so big that the edges touched the plate. The Japanese dishes are only listed in Japanese on the wall menu (there are no individual menus). but we found from other diners and from reviews that they are as good as anything in Japan, and include incredible grilled peppers, a beautiful golden pumpkin dish, grilled mushrooms, three-day braised pork, and many other awesome things.
The restaurant opens at 7 Monday through Friday, and it is best to be there by 6:40 if you want to get seated. Otherwise, you must come back at about 9, and hope that not too many other people come then! It is a mom and pop joint, literally - that's who works there. That's it. Sometimes their son helps out in the kitchen. They have run the restaurant for about eighteen years, and they do things the way they want: their house rules include no forks, no soda, no tempura, no teriyaki, no weekends, no rushing, and no complaining. Once you accept the rules, they are really, really nice and funny people, and their food is the food of the gods. Go worship them!
P.S. Cash only.
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I like the four (or is it five?) cheese mac'n'cheese, and I am impressed by the level of insanity required to mix beer and chocolate milkshakes in one glass. I don't know what turns me off - the...
I like the four (or is it five?) cheese mac'n'cheese, and I am impressed by the level of insanity required to mix beer and chocolate milkshakes in one glass. I don't know what turns me off - the often slow and confused but friendly service? The crowds? Is it too expensive? I just don't feel the Rudy's love.
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The Newman Center where I grew up is a small brick building that's all sunshine and hippies with guitars. I loved it, the one time I went. I hoped that Berkeley's would be the same. It's not; it's a...
The Newman Center where I grew up is a small brick building that's all sunshine and hippies with guitars. I loved it, the one time I went. I hoped that Berkeley's would be the same. It's not; it's a very large building with a gorgeous altar sculpted to look like a tree trunk, and great decoration in general, lots of good groups and activities (Taize, the youth group, the LGBT fellowship, etc.), great liberal/radical sermons, and a wonderful library. Problem is, it's so big that after going there for a year and doing three extracurricular things I only knew one person - the awesome semi-homeless woman who hangs out outside making mandalas out of flower petals. I think that when someone can go to a church regularly for a year and not know anyone, there's something wrong.
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These folks play a wide range of great jazz from all eras. They are independent and listener-supported, so in exchange for being asked for money four times a year (instead of every ten minutes all...
These folks play a wide range of great jazz from all eras. They are independent and listener-supported, so in exchange for being asked for money four times a year (instead of every ten minutes all year long) you get no commercials and you get to hear tons of information and music that you'd never hear on a station that had to run according to some corporation's wishes. The DJs are really smart and know everything about what they play and the music is just good fun.
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ClearChannel at its worst. Ok, its actual worst is probably when it makes up fake college radio stations acting really local and quirky while squelching any change for real community-run radio in...
ClearChannel at its worst. Ok, its actual worst is probably when it makes up fake college radio stations acting really local and quirky while squelching any change for real community-run radio in those areas. Here, they just turned an eighties station into the same generic Top 40s of 80s, 90s, and Today crap that everyone else plays. Including the same annoying morning show with some sexist pig droning on about some boring crap. Here's how annoying this station is: everything on their website ends in an exclamation mark, half of it moves, and each new page has the same car ad at the top that talks to you loudly on behalf of the station and slows the computer down so much that there's no way to make the ad stop. Yecch.
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