Name: The California Native Garden
Start: 2026-08-29T13:30:00-07:00
Location: University of California Botanical Garden, 200 Centennial Dr, Berkeley, CA, 94720

University of California Botanical Garden, 200 Centennial Dr, Berkeley, CA, 94720

Discover the vibrant resilience of California native flora with UC Botanical Garden horticulturist Jon Kanagy on an exclusive seasonal tour of the California Collection. As summer peaks, learn how native landscapes thrive through the dry months and gather expert inspiration to transform your own backyard into a water-wise sanctuary.
In this workshop you'll learn about plant adaptations to our summer dry climate, what to consider for irrigation, pruning, and other seasonal activities, with demonstrations of related gardening techniques. Plus, Jon will point out summer-dormant and summer-blooming plants, and recommend those to consider growing at home. 
Reserve your spot today and let the Garden inspire your home garden!Saturday, August 29, 1:30-2:30 pm
Fee: $8-28 Registration required: <a href="https://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/event/the-california-native-garden-summer/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/event/the-california-native-garden-summer/</a>

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A Midsummer Night's Dream is Shakespeare's comical melding of love stories within both the magical forest world of the Fairies and the Athenian court, with the King and Queen of the Fairies, the love quadrangle of Hermia, Demetrius, Lysander and Helena, and the Duke of Athens and his fiance the Queen of the Amazons, all "working things out", with a little intervention by the mischevious Puck and the hapless Mechanicals.&nbsp; A perfect play to end the summer on - join us!

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Actors Ensemble's second production of our 2026 Summer Season in the beautiful John Hinkel Park is A Midsummer Night's Dream,...

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Free Shakespeare in the Park

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Find your Asian treasures, including dishes, kimono, dolls, crafts & MORE!

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Book Society

OK, guys—we heard you. The ladies have been onto something with book clubs, and now it’s your turn. While this one isn’t exclusively for men, Tough &amp; Tannic leans into a richer, moodier energy—think deep, brooding reds over rosy rosé vibes. This is our newest book club where hard-boiled detectives, double agents, and femme fatales come to play. 

This month, we're diving into From the Dust&nbsp;by David Swinson. Retired DC homicide detective Graham Sanderson moves to the remote Finger Lakes to care for his shut-in brother—until a body turns up and the local police chief, an old family friend, pulls him back into the work he knows too well. The deeper he digs, the more he finds hidden in the town's quiet hierarchies. A soulful rural noir about belief, and what you stand for when you've got nothing left to lose.

Expect an evening of lively conversation, great wine, and the kind of spirited debate that would make even a gumshoe sweat.

Local Event: The Tough & Tannic Book Club: From the Dust

The Tough & Tannic Book Club: From the Dust

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Book Society, 2945 College Ave, Berkeley, CA 94705, USA

<h2>About the event</h2>
At the dawn of the 1990s, San Francisco was a beautiful if troubled mid-sized city—still reeling from the AIDS epidemic and the Loma Prieta earthquake, its boom-and-bust economy stuck in a long decline. Then a band of free-thinking technology enthusiasts immersed themselves in the city's singular creative zeitgeist and helped invent the modern internet. What followed was a transformation unlike any in recent American history: an economic and cultural juggernaut that could fairly claim the title of tech capital of the world—and, in the shadows, a mounting crisis of homelessness, addiction, and a political establishment that had lost the plot.

In City on the Edge, reporter and newsroom leader Jonathan Weber—an eyewitness to these events—delivers a sweeping history of a city that rose to dizzying heights only to be all but undone by the heedlessness of the tech industry it did so much to spawn. Drawing on some two hundred interviews with elected officials, CEOs, activists, investors, and artists, it's more than a chronicle of a city. It's the story of a war waged for the heart of San Francisco—one that both anticipated and reflected the culture wars raging around the world.

Weber will be in conversation with Frances Dinkelspiel, the journalist and author who co-founded Berkeleyside, one of the country's pioneering local news sites, and wrote the bestsellers Towers of Gold&nbsp;and Tangled Vines. The two are longtime friends and colleagues in Bay Area journalism, and their conversation carries a personal thread: Dinkelspiel is a descendant of the Hellman family, and her cousin, the late civic leader Warren Hellman, figures in Weber's book—it was Hellman who funded The Bay Citizen, the local news nonprofit Weber led. Together they'll dig into how tech remade the city, what its leaders and institutions got right and wrong, the perils and promise of patron-funded journalism, and what San Francisco's future might hold as a new AI boom takes hold.

Your visit includes:
<ul><li>A moderated conversation between Jonathan Weber and Frances Dinkelspiel</li><li>Book signing and Q&amp;A</li><li>A glass of wine and good company, Book Society–style</li></ul>
Get your ticket here!&nbsp;<a href="https://www.booksociety.social/event-details/city-on-the-edge-how-tech-remade-san-francisco" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">booksociety.social/event-details/city-on-the-edge-how-tech-remade-san-francisco</a>
Option to pre-purchase Jonathan's book at checkout. (NOTE: You are welcome to pick your book up prior to the event if you would like to pre-read!) A limited number of copies of City on the Edge&nbsp;and Frances’ book Tangled Vines will also be available for purchase at the event.

<h5>About the Speakers</h5>

Jonathan Weber&nbsp;was named the Los Angeles Times's first-ever Silicon Valley reporter in 1990. He was later editor in chief of The Industry Standard, which chronicled—and lived—the first dot-com boom. He served as editor in chief of The Bay Citizen, a local news non-profit, and oversaw West Coast news and global technology coverage for Reuters. He was most recently the founding editor in chief of The San Francisco Standard. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Wesleyan University.

Frances Dinkelspiel&nbsp;is a journalist and author, and a co-founder of Berkeleyside, the pioneering local news site she launched in 2009. She is the author of two acclaimed books of California history: Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California, a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller about her great-great-grandfather, and Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California, a New York Times bestseller. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among others. She holds a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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We will meet first at my office at 1653 Irving Street at 10am. Tour should be done by 12pm. We could do Q&amp;As for another hour after talking about the houses.
Please note that you show up on time. We will provide you the list of homes the day of the tour.
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I'm Broker/Owner of Remax Prestigious Properties with 25 years of experience, I have sold over 350 homes. I know the neighborhoods and the market trends. I am a great negotiator, let me help you flip a home!

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