The Parkway and El Cerrito may be reopening. Yeah!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/18/BU6F189Q6H.DTL http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_12619281?source=most_emailed slightly different info in each.
Basically, they are both reopening!, Both expect to to the restaurant thing like before. Though under two different managements.
El Cerrito will be run by Rialto, the company that runs the Elmwood theatre .
ParkWay will be run by a group from Indiana that runs similar sort of theatre over there. From stuff he said at the El Cerrito city Redevelopment meeting, I'm indirectly figuring, Will the Thrill, the former programmer for Parkway, knows people in this group and may continue to be the programmer at the Parkway, which, if correct, would be really cool.