(03-16) 13:23 PDT BERKELEY-- A robbery suspect was arrested and another is being sought in a shooting early Saturday that injured two employees of the popular Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community Center ...

Ashkenaz, Berkeley's home for international music and dance, is voted Best Dance Club in the East Bay. On bustling San Pablo Avenue in West Berkeley, tucked away from the ever-present glow of screens ...

"We are one spirit, one family, under one roof," band leader Baba Ken Okulolo said. Hearts and heads hung low at Ashkenaz Saturday night. The prayer circle was in honor of Larry Chin and Stan Ellis, ...

BERKELEY — In 1973, the place to party in Berkeley was O Aito’s, a Berkeley tavern that featured live music and boisterous crowds. But to the disappointment of many patrons, it closed at midnight, ...

Sol Schindler of Bethesda, Md., writes: “Paul Kriwaczek tells us in his book ‘In Search of Zarathustra: Across Iran and Central Asia To Find the World’s First Prophet’ that the Hebrew word ashkenazi ...

David Nadel never stopped believing. I first met him a few years after he founded Ashkenaz in 1973, before the Berkeley venue took off. The sparseness of the crowds in the club’s early days puzzled ...

A cold-blooded killing couldn't stop the dancing. Founded four decades ago by leftist activist David Nadel, a folk dance enthusiast and perpetual thorn in the side of the UC regents, Ashkenaz has ...

At 1,000 years, the search for the location of Ashkenaz – thought to be the birthplace of Ashkanazic Jews and the Yiddish language – is one of the longest quests in human history. It is perhaps second ...

Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center (Ashkenaz)—the music venue and dance hall in the heart of West Berkeley—will host Snap to Grid, a new night of eclectic dance music focused on uplifting and ...

At 1,000 years, the search for the location of Ashkenaz – thought to be the birthplace of Ashkanazic Jews and the Yiddish language – is one of the longest quests in human history. It is perhaps second ...