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Lisa Gray

Lisa Gray

Hi I'm Lisa Gray
Oakland http://Lisa@lisawrites.life 13 posts
WAX Gets Cannon Jumpin’ New Haven

WAX Gets Cannon Jumpin’

For a 3 1/2‑hour old-school hip-hop party.

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Lisa Gray
2 Apr 2025 · 4 min read
#WeStillHere: A ​“510 Day” Love Letter to Oakland Amid Gentrification 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

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Lisa Gray
14 May 2024 · 6 min read
Weed Is A Plant. So Paint Your Pot 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

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Lisa Gray
25 Apr 2024 · 4 min read
St. Juste Blooms At the Moxy 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

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Lisa Gray
17 Apr 2024 · 3 min read
Leela James Rocks The Fox 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

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Lisa Gray
6 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Vinyl Breathes Anew, With A Whiskey Chaser 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

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Lisa Gray
3 Jan 2024 · 5 min read
Curried Goat & Turmeric Soup Wine Down The Season 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

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Lisa Gray
10 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
Afternoon Tea Steeped In Afrofuturism 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.

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Lisa Gray
3 Oct 2023 · 1 min read
Buffalo Nichols Embodies The Blues 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

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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,

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Lisa Gray
7 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
Happy Hip Hop Birthday x3 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,

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Lisa Gray
16 Aug 2023 · 13 min read
House Music Heats Up ​“Sunday Bliss” 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

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Lisa Gray
2 Aug 2023 · 3 min read
Black Men Speak From The Heart 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

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Lisa Gray
28 Jul 2023 · 4 min read
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