Oakland #WeStillHere: A “510 Day” Love Letter to Oakland Amid Gentrification 510 Day Lake Merritt Oakland May 10, 2024 510 Day is a true celebration for Black Oakland and Oakland natives, a “cultural resilience” gathering of Oaklanders of all kinds. The Lisa Gray 14 May 2024 · 6 min read
Oakland Weed Is A Plant. So Paint Your Pot Weed Is A Plant Hella Bees Bar 2340 Harrison St. Oakland April 20, 2024 The sun showed out as hundreds of people gathered around Lake Merritt, grilling and playing music Lisa Gray 25 Apr 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland St. Juste Blooms At the Moxy Lalin St. Juste Live Bandcamp @ the Moxy Hotel 2225 Telegraph Ave. Oakland April 12, 2024 As folks filtered into the lobby of the Moxy Hotel to see local musician Lalin Lisa Gray 17 Apr 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Leela James Rocks The Fox Leela James Fox Theater Oakland Jan. 26, 2024 Leela James, aka The Goddaughter of Soul, took the stage at the Fox Theater and, let me tell you, she didn’t Lisa Gray 6 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Vinyl Breathes Anew, With A Whiskey Chaser Bar Shiru Selector Series 1611 Telegraph Ave. Oakland Dec. 20th, 2023 Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, Oakland’s poet laureate, closed out season seven of Bar Shiru’s Selector Series by selecting Lisa Gray 3 Jan 2024 · 5 min read
New Haven Curried Goat & Turmeric Soup Wine Down The Season Wine Down CT ’s end-of-summer event, Dear Summer, went down Sunday evening. If you get a chance to go to their next event, get your ticket early because they sell Lisa Gray 10 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven Afternoon Tea Steeped In Afrofuturism The description online read: “In this ephemeral haven of sonic and poetic delights, the Afrogalactic Tea Party invites you to immerse yourself in a curated experience of taste and culture. Lisa Gray 3 Oct 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Buffalo Nichols Embodies The Blues Buffalo Nichols Cafe 9 New Haven Sept. 23, 2023 Saturday night was a great night for blues. As rain pattered on the windows of Cafe Nine on the corner of Lisa Gray 26 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Toad’s Place Rocks In Memory Of Rohn Lawrence Toad’s Place on York Street lit up as a cadre of jazz musicians gathered to pay homage to one of New Haven’s own axe men extraordinaire, Rohn Lawrence, Lisa Gray 7 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
NYC Happy Hip Hop Birthday x3 “Fifty years down the line, you can start this ‘Cause we’ll be the Old School artists And even in that time, I’ll say a rhyme A brand-new style, Lisa Gray 16 Aug 2023 · 13 min read
Oakland House Music Heats Up “Sunday Bliss” I am a househead. I fell in love with house in the early ’90s in a club in DC when I heard a Crystal Waters “Gypsy Woman” club mix that Lisa Gray 2 Aug 2023 · 3 min read
Oakland Black Men Speak From The Heart On a hot night in Oakland, a packed house listened to Black men get vulnerable and share stories about their journeys. Produced by Create the Space, 2ME4U: Stories of Self-Exploration Lisa Gray 28 Jul 2023 · 4 min read
