Telegraph Avenue

Kiss the Blood from My Meat!

Posted in Telegraph Avenue, The Berkeley Scene on October 8th, 2015 by admin – Be the first to comment

Bloody Meat Burger on Telegraph Was to Die For;
Now Is Itself Dead Because Wimp-Ass Diners
Winced at the Oozing Blood

by Steed Dropout
Oct. 8, 2015

What's left of a bloodless meal. Photo by Ted Friedman.

RARE: “HOW DO YOU LIKE YOUR MEAT…RARE”!

A Roar From A Telegraph Ave. Character We Call ‘Rare’.

Berkeley Reporter had been sampling Telegraph Avenue burgers
for an article, when wimp-ass diners who winced at its oozing blood—
killed off the sweetest burger this side of Steak ’n Shake.*

The Melt burger was too good to be true, so it had to die.
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Last Chance Berkeley Cafe

Posted in Med Heads & Cafe Culture, Telegraph Avenue, The Berkeley Scene on September 21st, 2015 by admin – Be the first to comment

by Steed Dropout
Sept. 20, 2015

WILL IT BELONG TO THE AGES?

Photo by Ted Friedman.

Although up for sale, Berkeley’s oldest espresso squeeze is not going quietly into Hamlet’s speculative sleep of death.

The Caffe Mediterranean may prolong its swan song as it drifts between to what it might have been and what it has become—a cheap eats and last stand conversation center.
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First Person: Inside 3 Day Encampment on Telegraph

Posted in Telegraph Avenue, The Berkeley Scene on September 14th, 2015 by admin – Be the first to comment

by Steed Dropout
Sept. 14, 2015

Another Berkeley South Side Tale: Berkeley Reporter Sits In Line Outside Hip Telegraph Shoe Gallery To See What It’s Like To Vie For A Rare BBall Shoe, As Light And White As A Slipper

Thursday Shoe Mgr. insisted the tent come down. Photo by Ted Friedman.

As many as three times the crowd for last year’s Air Jordon release, took to the street for three days on Telegraph last week.
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Flag Chic, Berkeley’s Telegraph Ave.

Posted in Telegraph Avenue, The Berkeley Scene on September 8th, 2015 by admin – Be the first to comment

by Steed Dropout
Sept. 8, 2015

FLAG THIS!

Photo by Ted Friedman.

When protesters march from Telegraph in Oakland to Telegraph/Bancroft, the entrance to Cal Berkeley, you never see a pro-government protest, although some protesters like to wear the flag.

Showing the flag (or, waving the flag) is defined online as:

“If someone flies the flag, they represent or support their country. (‘Wave the flag’ and ‘show the flag’ are alternative forms of this idiom”).
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BERKELEY SOUTH SIDE TALES: THE LITTLE FAIR THAT COULD

Posted in Telegraph Avenue, The Berkeley Scene on September 2nd, 2015 by admin – Be the first to comment

BERKELEY SOUTH SIDE TALES

by Steed Dropout
Sept. 1, 2015

THE LITTLE FAIR THAT COULD

Photo by Ted Friedman.

Sundays on Telegraph is a struggle in progress.

Past fairs have started small in first weekends, but morphed into major events. Not so this
year.

Facing a funding failure this year, fair planners adopted a coping strategy. As one planner told me, “we just want to show our brand this year.”
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Bizarre Berkeley Bizarre’s Weird Demise

Posted in Telegraph Avenue, The Berkeley Scene on May 22nd, 2015 by admin – Be the first to comment

by Steed Dropout
May 22, 2015

FORMERLY FUNKY BERKELEY WAS LOOKING FOR THE NEXT ADJECTIVE

Earth’s Bizarre Grand Opening last year. Photo by Ted Friedman.

Formerly Funky Berkeley was looking for the next adjective—bizarre—when the “Earth’s Bizarre” opened last year. One of those only in Berkeley scenarios. Only on Bizarre Berkeley’s South side, a few steps from Telegraph Avenue.
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Berkeley’s People’s Cop Commands Compliance

Posted in People's Park, Telegraph Avenue, The Berkeley Scene on April 23rd, 2015 by admin – Be the first to comment

by Steed Dropout
April 23, 2015

Butt-Head outside Caffe Med. Photo by Ted Friedman.

To call one Berkeley patrolman a people’s cop could be misleading, when so many of Berkeley’s cops are people’s cops.

But the Berkeley cop who sees his job as “protecting the people of Berkeley from the police,” and stubbornly refuses to write citations…that cop lays special claim to the title, People’s Cop.

The Berkeley People’s Cop has been rebuked, threatened with re-training, and with suspension by his supervisor for his unproductive citations record, he told Berkeley Reporter, recently.
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Berkeley’s Mr. Telegraph Ave. Honored by City

Posted in Telegraph Avenue, The Berkeley Scene on April 13th, 2015 by admin – Be the first to comment

by Steed Dropout
April 13, 2015

ROLAND PETERSON’S 16 YEARS HELMING AVE. BUSINESS GROUP HONORED–BUT ENDED

Mr. Telegraph: last tour. Photo by Ted Friedman.

A big bunch of Berkeley officials, businessmen, and former street ambassadors showed up at Remy’s Restaurant near People’s Park, last week, to express its appreciation for Roland Peterson, Executive Director of the Telegraph Business Improvement District, who was leaving his sixteen year job.

His departure from the Telegraph Avenue Business Improvement District, (TBID) after 16 years at the top, was not voluntary, he told Berkeley Reporter.

“In this job, you make both friends and enemies,” Peterson said. His departure from ‘the Bid’ followed criticisms of his performance in a TBID evaluation questionnaire. “The criticisms quoted me out of context,” Peterson countered.
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Inside Berkeley’s Latest Demo

Posted in Telegraph Avenue, The Berkeley Scene on March 25th, 2015 by admin – Be the first to comment

by Steed dropout
Mar. 24, 2015

‘You don’t like it when we sprang?
Sit down, let’s talk, and make some change!’

‘Arresting people always fails!
Give us housing, not more jails!’

‘Give us a home!
Leave us alone!’

A FLAG, A BRASS BAND, AND RUNNING WOLF

A flag, a band, and Running Wolf. Photo by Ted Friedman.

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Berkeley Street “Leader” Attacked, Berkeley-style

Posted in Telegraph Avenue, The Berkeley Scene on March 10th, 2015 by admin – Be the first to comment

by Steed Dropout
March, 9, 2015

Crime scene. Weapon was wrapped in Subway bag, lower right.
Photo by Ted Friedman.

‘Purple,’ only wanted to be helpful when he was whacked with a submarine sandwich, Saturday, on Telegraph Avenue.

Recently named by one Teley businessman as “leader” of a band, of notorious slackers slouched outside a tattoo head-shop near the Caffe Mediterraneum, Purple is, at 6’2″ an imposing figure, with a thoughtful personal philosophy he shares with passers-by on Telegraph.
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