Oakland Fat Tuesday Rolls Through The Bay Mardi Gras Parade and Party 19th Street and The New Parish Oakland Feb. 13, 2024 The Mardi Gras festivities in New Orleans can be a little overwhelming if you’re Robin Lapid 16 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Freaky Teenage Foibles Flaunted For Laughs Mortified’s “Doomed Valentines” Show The New Parish Oakland Feb. 10, 2024 Ah, the foolishness of youth. Is the ability to laugh at your own adolescent follies evidence of your Robin Lapid 16 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland Red and Gold: Dragons Prevail Lunar New Year Celebrations Jack London Square Oakland Feb. 10, 2024 The Bay Area had a lot to celebrate this past weekend, so one was hard-pressed to decide what should Robin Lapid 15 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Valdez Street Vibe Captures Soul Of The city Valdez Street Vibes Valdez Street between 23rd and 24th Streets Oakland Feb. 10, 2024 I was surprised that, even if I was only there a short while, I caught it. Robin Lapid 14 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Super Sew Sunday by Robin Lapid Rock Paper Scissor Collective’s Community Art Workshop Series Oakland Public Library Oakland Feb. 11, 2024 Super Bowl Sunday in the basement of the downtown Oakland library, Robin Lapid 14 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland In the Mood for Movies and Lumpia Cozy Cinema: Movie Night 7th West Oakland Feb. 8, 2024 A movie night in Oakland with films by auteurs inspired by filmmakers I love — Godard, Varda, Ozu, Tarkovsky—and Filipino Robin Lapid 12 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland The Trims Turn Up The Sound And Turn On The Bright Lights Mod80s Disco Presents The Trims Elbo Room Oakland Oakland Feb. 2, 2024 I have fond memories of late nights-into-early mornings spent dancing the night away at the Elbo Room in Robin Lapid 7 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Trashy Treasures, Uncovered Garbage Art — One Person’s Trash Rock Paper Scissors Oakland Feb. 2, 2024 Is there treasure to be found in garbage? I sometimes walk around the streets in Oakland and Robin Lapid 7 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland It Was A Dark Aand Rainy Crawl Friday Night Crawl Downtown, various locations Oakland Feb. 2, 2024 I walked around the rain-slicked streets of Old Oakland on Friday night, wondering if the Night Crawl might have been Robin Lapid 6 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Easy Like Sunday Morning, On Tuesday Night Karaoke Night Baba’s House Oakland Jan. 30, 2024 It was another not-so-secret party at Baba’s House, and everyone was welcome. I was back in downtown Oakland, on yet Robin Lapid 5 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland Roll Over, Steinway Paolo Fazioli Talk on Fazioli Pianos Piedmont Piano Company Oakland Jan. 30, 2024 I was among a few dozen guests milling about Piedmont Piano Company when a bottle of Prosecco Robin Lapid 4 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland How The West Was Wrung Alta Journal Issue 26 Party Clio’s Bookstore and Bar Oakland Jan. 24, 2024 In the bowels of what feels like the coziest Manhattan bookstore not in Manhattan, I thumbed Robin Lapid 29 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland I Run This Spelling Bee Like Cardio Cardi Spelling Bee Baba’s House Oakland Jan. 24, 2024 After all these years, I still recall it like it was yesterday: Dan Mini Elementary School. Fourth grade. I’m Robin Lapid 28 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Graffiti Art On The Fly — And Everyone’s Welcome Jazman’s zine sale Pigment Art Supply 304 15th St. Oakland Jan. 20, 2024 I wasn’t aware of how big the graffiti scene is in the Bay Area until Robin Lapid 26 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Ghosts & The Sisters Gibb The Science Behind Science Fiction with the Gibbs Sisters Chapter 510 Oakland Jan. 20, 2024 It’s a rainy Saturday afternoon, and Shawnee Gibbs is telling me a real-life ghost Robin Lapid 25 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Toru Sugita Transmits Toru Sugita Transmission Gallery Oakland Jan. 20, 2024 Is there a moment when a memory of a place changes color in the mind’s eye? When I conjure images of Robin Lapid 25 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Loose Threads Untangled Anne Garvey Keep It Together: Reception Manna Gallery Oakland Jan. 20, 2024 If you were to have driven past this particular block on 25th Street, just off Telegraph, on this Robin Lapid 25 Jan 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland David Bowie Falls Back To Earth Nicholas Roeg’s “The Man Who Fell to Earth” The New Parkway Theater Oakland Jan. 7, 2024 I’m ensconced on a couch with a bowl of popcorn and a Robin Lapid 12 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
