Oakland’s First Friday and Art Murmur returned this past week after February’s street festival ended in tragedy when 18-year-old Kiante Campbell was shot and killed at 20th Street and Telegraph Avenue. That First Friday could have been the city’s last. The monthly night gathering attracts thousands for its food, music Read More…
Nearly 250 volunteers spread out in 33 different locations throughout Alameda County for the county’s biennial homeless count, Wednesday morning.
“Storytellers” If you enjoy people-watching, you will enjoy Jhina Alvarado-Morse’s vintage film-still protagonists in her newest series, “Storytellers,” opening at Manna Gallery on Friday. Our habit of contemplating a person’s life based on a glance causes us to imagine pasts and futures for Alvarado-Morse’s familiar-seeming subjects — and you don’t Read More…
Dr. Donald Evans, superintendent of Hayward Unified School District, has been named the finalist candidate for the Berkeley Unified School District superintendent position. Read More…
We get it, Dr. Seuss. We’re really smart and we’ll do great things and blah. Some of us are about to graduate from Cal, and there’s no doubt in our minds that we are the bee’s knees of knowledge; we’ll get jobs and people will love us and it’ll be Read More…
The Berkeley Juneteenth festival commemorates the date of the last state to emancipate slaves.
What is the meaning of freedom? Angela Davis has devoted her life to the exploration of this question and to combating all forms of oppression that deny people their freedom based on race, gender, class or sexual orientation. Read More…
The Free Gallery by Free Utopian Projects at Pro Arts Imagine your hoarder great aunt’s attic. Now add some color and get rid of the spiderwebs. Next add Christmas-hued plaid suitcases, a sombrero, a cootie-catcher or two, and you almost have “The Free Gallery” now open at Pro Arts. Almost. Read More…
In today’s musical epoch of auto tune, vocal distortion and studio effects, even the most tone-deaf choir flunkie can be made to sound like a “Roxanne”-era Sting. Therefore it is a rare and unequivocal pleasure to attend a concert and discover that despite all precedents, the artist performing actually sounds Read More…
On March 20th, supporters of the proposed Millionaires Tax Plan gathered in Downtown Oakland to show support for the plan. Watch a video of the protest. Lead Protest Producer Jeff Capps filmed and Multimedia Editor Cecilia Wong edited this video.
