Artist Leo Villareal controls the Bay Lights with his laptop. (Cy Musiker/KQED)
On Wednesday, author and photographer Elaine Miller Bond captured this shot of "hundreds, probably thousands, of seabirds (mostly cormorants) sitting on the old pilings at the far end of the Berkeley Pier." A reader suggested they were on a herring run. (Elaine Miller Bond/Berkeleyside)
Crowds swarm Grant Street in San Francisco's Chinatown to celebrate Chinese New Year on Saturday, Feb 23. (Jason Winshell/SF Public Press)
The air traffic control tower at San Carlos Airport could close as part of federal budget cuts related to the sequester. (Scott Shafer/KQED)
The protester known as "Warbler" watches a Caltrans truck from her perch 71 feet up a Ponderosa pine near the Mendocino County town of Willits. Warbler, who has been tree-sitting for more than a month, is protesting Caltrans' plan to build a bypass for U.S. 101. Critics says the project will have dire environmental consequences. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)
A new black history museum at Woodside Plaza in Redwood City features 11,000 square feet of history and memorabilia. (Kate Abbott/Peninsula Press)