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Berkeley: Kinda Izakaya opens with Japanese bar bites, shochu cocktails

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:51:52 GMT

Ever tasted a Japanese Hogwarts cocktail? You can now at Kinda Izakaya, a new restaurant in Berkeley specializing in Japanese bar food and quirky shochu drinks.Kinda is in its soft opening and is testing out late-night hours that should appeal to the UC Berkeley crowd (open until 11 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday and midnight Friday-Saturday, according to Instagram). The space on University Avenue is warm and cozy, with wood accents, classic Japanese posters and a sprawling bar. “Drink Sake / Stay Kinda” commands a sign, and yes, a variety of sake bottles line the rafters – there’s Born Gold muroka (unrefined sake), Michinoku Onikoroshi “Demon Slayer” (dry sake) and much more.Kinda Izakaya is a new late-night restaurant in Berkeley that does Japanese bar food such as grilled skewers, fried chicken, sashimi and shochu cocktails. (John Metcalfe/Bay Area News Group) The menu offers a horde of appetizers designed to match with your beverage of choice. There are...

New study lays out physical consequences long Covid sufferers have dealt with

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:51:52 GMT

By Brenda Goodman | CNNPeople who survived Covid-19 early in the pandemic, before there were vaccines, continued to be at higher risk for a slew of health problems for up to two years after they got over their initial infections, a new study finds, and that was especially true if they were hospitalized.These health problems include heart problems, blood clots, diabetes, neurologic complications, fatigue and difficulties with mental health and have come to be known collectively as long Covid.When researchers tallied the risks for more than 80 different complications that are associated with long Covid, they translated the collective toll into a metric called a disability adjusted life year, or DALY. Each DALY represents one year of healthy life lost to illness. They found that long Covid generated more than 80 disability-adjusted life years, or DALYs, for every 1,000 people who weren’t hospitalized for their initial infection.That means long Covid creates a higher burden of disabilit...

Mountain View: 23-year-old arrested after man is shot and killed

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:51:52 GMT

MOUNTAIN VIEW — A 23-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder Sunday after a Mountain View shooting left another man dead, according to authorities.Police received reports of gunshots just after 9 a.m. Sunday on the 2000 block of Reinert Road. Upon arrival, officers found a man lying down in the driveway of an apartment complex with at least one gunshot wound. The man, only identified as a 29-year-old Mountain View resident, was pronounced dead at the scene.The Santa Clara County Office of the Medical Examiner-Coroner did not publicly identify the victim Monday morning, pending notification of next of kin.Officers located and later arrested a second man at the apartment complex, identified as 23-year-old Juan Rodriguez, also of Mountain View. Rodriguez was arrested on suspicion of murder, and a gun was found at the scene, police said.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | Santa Clara County: Nearly two dozen face charges in insurance fraud scheme Crime and...

What Ken teaches men: Bay Area psychologist examines the emotional growth of Barbie’s boyfriend

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:51:52 GMT

Spoiler alert: The following interview discusses several plot elements of the film “Barbie.”Before Los Altos psychologist Eric FitzMedrud donned a pink tie and joined his wife for a date night to see the summer blockbuster movie “Barbie,” he was all too familiar with the anxiety that the character of Ken feels about his place in the world and in Barbie’s life.FitzMedrud specializes in counseling individuals and couples on relationships and sexual issues and is set to publish a book, “The Better Man: A Guide to Consent, Stronger Relationships, and Hotter Sex” (Wonderwell, 2023), in September. The book offers men advice on how to get past the conflicting messages they receive about how to be “enough.” On one hand, he writes, men are told that they can’t be masculine enough unless they reject feminism and embrace the “abject misogyny” of certain cultural figures. Or, they worry about how to enter into relationships...

Beyonce by the Numbers: A deep look at Queen Bey’s amazing career

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:51:52 GMT

It’s Queen Bey time.That’s right, after months of (somewhat) patiently waiting, Bay Area fans will finally get the chance to experience Beyonce’s Renaissance World Tour on Aug. 30 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara. Showtime is 8 p.m.; ticketmaster.com.The multiplatinum superstar is out on the road in support of her seventh studio album, 2022’s “Renaissance,” which is her first full-length solo outing since 2016’s “Lemonade.”To help pass the time while we wait for the royally talented artist to arrive at the home of the San Francisco 49ers, we’re offering up a little something we’re calling “Beyonce by the Numbers.”It’s a stats-and-figures-based look at the career of this amazing entertainer, who, in basically every category imaginable, ranks among the most popular music superstars of all time. We’ll also dish up some details about the current tour.Here we go!2.1 billionThat’s as in d...

Unconscious man rescued after vehicle crashes into Alameda’s Seaplane Lagoon

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:51:52 GMT

ALAMEDA — An unconscious man was rescued by firefighters early Monday after a vehicle he was driving crashed into Seaplane Lagoon, authorities said.The man was not breathing when firefighters got to him, authorities said. He was taken to a hospital but his condition was not immediately available.The vehicle the man was in crashed into the lagoon in the 1000 block of West Tower Avenue, not far from the USS Hornet Sea, Air and Space Museum, about 3:20 a.m. Monday. The cause of the crash was under investigation.Related ArticlesCrashes and Disasters | Traffic collision along Highway 101 leaves one dead Crashes and Disasters | DMV demands Cruise cut driverless fleet in half following crashes Crashes and Disasters | GM’s Cruise robotaxi collides with San Francisco firetruck, injuring passenger Crashes and Disasters | Pilots made errors before crash near Lake Tahoe that killed all 6 on board, investigators say Crashes an...

Ron Cephas Jones dies at 66; actor won 2 Emmys for his role on ‘This Is Us’

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:51:52 GMT

By Andrew Dalton | Associated PressLOS ANGELES — Ron Cephas Jones, a veteran stage actor who won two Emmy Awards for his role as a long-lost father who finds redemption on the NBC television drama series “This Is Us,” has died at age 66, a representative said Saturday.Jones’ manager, Dan Spilo, said in an emailed statement the actor died “due to a long-standing pulmonary issue.”“Throughout the course of his career, his warmth, beauty, generosity, kindness and heart were felt by anyone who had the good fortune of knowing him,” Spilo said.Jones had a double lung transplant in 2020 because of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and spent nearly two months in a Los Angeles hospital.On “This Is Us,” Jones played William “Shakespeare” Hill, a biological father whose life is renewed through his relationship with the family of his son Randall Pearson, played by Sterling K. Brown.“One of the most wonderful people the world has ever seen is no longer with us,” Brown said in an I...

Body found near parking garage in downtown Oakland

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:51:52 GMT

(KRON) -- A dead body was found Monday morning near a parking garage in downtown Oakland, according to police. At around 8 a.m., officers arrived to the 1100 block of Clay Street and located an individual suffering from severe injuries. Elderly Hayward man beaten, robbed outside his home The individual was pronounced dead once medical personnel and the Oakland Fire Department arrived at the scene. Oakland police could not give any more information in regards to this incident.This investigation remains open and active. Anyone with information is asked to contact OPD at 510-238-3728.

SF neighborhood restaurant near Alamo Square closing

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:51:52 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- Automat, a neighborhood restaurant not far from Alamo Square, is closing this week due to a combination of factors, according to a social post from the restaurant. Automat opened in 2021 on McAllister Street at Baker Street, midway between Alamo Square and USF.The restaurant "opened with the intention of being a neighborhood and destination cafe and restaurant, offering craveable takes on our childhood classics for both daytime and dinner," it said on Facebook. Air quality advisory extended through Tuesday due to wildfire smoke Yelp reviews of Automat praised the restaurant's food, service and cleanliness. Popular items include the fried chicken sandwich, breakfast sandwich and brick toast.But operating "a casual restaurant in San Francisco that is sustainable for its employees, affordable to is customers, puts out high-end food made from scratch, but also works financially," was tough, the post said. "In the two years we've been open, we were not able to f...

Mountain View man arrested in deadly shooting Sunday

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:51:52 GMT

(KRON) -- A Mountain View man was arrested in connection to a fatal shooting that occurred Sunday, the Mountain View Police Department announced Monday. Mountain View PD dispatchers received calls of gunshots heard on the 2000 block of Reinert Road just after 9 a.m. Sunday.Responding officers found a man lying in the driveway of an apartment complex. The man had at least one gunshot wound and was declared dead at the scene. Police identified him as a 29-year-old Mountain View resident but declined to release his name at this time. Elderly Hayward man beaten, robbed outside his home At the apartment complex, police encountered a second man and detained him for questioning. That man, 23-year-old Juan Rodriguez of Mountain View, was arrested on suspicion of murder. Police also recovered a gun at the scene.There are no outstanding suspects in the case, police said.The case is currently under investigation and police are working to determine a motive in the shooting. Mountain View PD a...