Berkeley Café bids adieu to big room

RALEIGH — A colorful slice of local blue-collar nightlife history came to an end Saturday night. With Southern Culture on the Skids presiding onstage, the Berkeley Café’s big music hall had its final night as a live-music venue. The Berkeley’s café space will remain open and continue doing shows on a smaller scale. But Saturday was it for the 200-capacity big room, which is closing to make way for a retail tobacco store. The space has hosted everything from hip-hop to hard-core punk over the...