Taxation without representation is alive and well in this unincorporated community. Some residents are hoping to change that, but the odds are stacked against them. While manning a table for the ...
Growing elk herds are competing with grazing cattle at the national park, raising questions about how best to manage public lands. After being reintroduced to the park in 1978, Tule elk are now ...
These days, nail art has no limits. In Alice Kincade’s experience, anyway. The Oakland-based nail artist began her work in her dorm room at UCLA in 2019 while recovering from a car accident.
THURSDAY JAZZ PERALTA, COYLE & WILEY The Sound Room is many things: comedy room, flamenco tablao, blues joint, cabaret. It also offers opportunities for the region’s most exciting young jazz ...
Oakland has become the epicenter of a movement to create a more realistic portrayal of queer- and female-centric sex. Andre Shakti is a queer author, activist, and educator who began performing in ...
As a judge prepares to sentence the chief culprit in the 2007 oil spill, his detention will still be briefer than that of the innocent witnesses who helped prevent a much greater catastrophe.
Adam Myatt is known as one half of Oakland electro-pop duo James & Evander. But now he's also known for his love of cats. Step inside Adam Myatt’s bottom-floor apartment in West Oakland, which ...
When staff turnover is at an all-time high, Cheese Board, Arizmendi, and other East Bay collectives buck the trend. Denis Gomez, Megan Ledet, Delia Desmond, Mahasin Munir, and Luis Andrade live ...
People who live with the risk of wildfires know that they're only as strong as the weakest link in their neighborhood. The Hiller Highlands has a tragic claim to fame. In October of 1991, a ...
In her new book, the Oakland photographer visually recalls coming of age as a queer woman amid the silenced AIDS epidemic and pre-riot grrrl milieu. Sitting on a vine-covered bench in the backyard ...
Overburdened with air pollution, East Oakland residents and activists thought they had blocked a crematorium from opening in 2012. But it quietly began operations a few months ago. Angela Scott ...
Tim Hon and Steve Ha bring a self-taught style and old-school graffiti sensibility into plain view on Oakland's streets. Tim Hon and Steve Ha met at Newark Memorial High School and began tagging ...