Annapurna

Berkeley’s beloved food scene is set to take on yet another familiar dish: cookies. Both Crumbl Cookies and Insomnia Cookies are opening their first stores in the East Bay neighborhood just a couple of hundred feet apart on Bancroft Way.

If not for the 50% sale stickers around the shop, you would hardly notice that Annapurna is awaiting eviction from its storied Telegraph Avenue location.

Berkeley’s dining and shopping options are far from limited with a range of restaurants and businesses that cover just about everything. One thing you won’t find much of: chains.

Berkeley’s People’s Park has been entered into the National Register of Historic Places for its association with student protests and countercultural activity in the 1960s.

Even though “Beale Street” is a better film than “Vice,” the latter is the easier awards sell. As films such as “Darkest Hour” or “Bohemian Rhapsody” can attest, even awful-to-mediocre biopics with strong central performances are an Oscars shoo-in for best actor and best picture.

A year after the city’s largest apartment fire in recent memory, much is still uncertain for the former tenants and the Telegraph Avenue commercial district.

Aisles of booths dotted Telegraph Avenue Sunday afternoon, selling everything from shaved ice to whimsical trinkets as the summer street fair, LastSundaysFest, came to life on the street once again.