The first restaurant I ever visited in Berkeley was a little pizzeria on Shattuck Avenue called Cheese Board Pizza. It served a single kind of pizza each day and operated in partnership with the bakery a few doors down. The real charm of the place, however, was the live music.
One of the most heart-wrenching casualties of the pandemic was the loss of in-person concerts. Coachella was cancelled, local gigs were postponed and the performances that used to animate restaurants, bars and late-night venues seemed to vanish overnight.
I interviewed C.J. Calvert, a worker-owner of the Cheese Board Collective that runs the pizzeria, about what the pandemic did to its ability to host artists.
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