Music Midbrow Loves Lucinda Across the country, we watched Lucinda Williams sing. She’s got a lot left to belt, believe you us. Multiple authors 20 Dec 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Small Sculptures Steal the Show Ever lost hours in search of a sculpture you saw a decade ago and only vaguely recall, both online and among your own poorly archived history? She’s bronze, just smaller than life-sized, arms behind her back, facing the vista, standing on the side of a hill. She may be getting ready to swim… Stacey Peters 25 Sep 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland LOW LIFE SCUM THAT’S WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT ME These rambunctious, cheeky, ketamine-loving miscreants also happen to be smart, angry at the British, and versed in Welsh, a dying language and deeply important part of their heritage. Cue the mayhem, and wear your stomping boots. Stacey Peters 4 Sep 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Bahn Mi Brings It, Sans Sriracha Just a few short blocks from Lake Merritt, this low profile all-day cafe makes good on its name...[with] sandwiches and salads, wraps, rice bowls, breakfast bites, a handful of pastries, and smoothies and juices a plenty, the small kitchen has something for many palates. Stacey Peters 25 Aug 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland Making Waves: New Barbers On the Block The frenzy began, with a dozen students vying for aesthetic bragging rights, and all laser-focused on the model (often a fellow student) in their chair. Tools, spare hair, and gel flashed in hands, on hands, on the floor. Stacey Peters 21 Aug 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland A Big Burger Surprise 10th and Wood 945 9th St. Oakland It may not seem like much, but for the past 11 years, 10th and Wood, located at the corner of said streets, has Stacey Peters 14 Aug 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland Double Feature: Jewish Film Fest In Town A Photographic Memory and Under the Shadow of the Sun 44th SF Jewish Film Fest Landmark’s Piedmont Theatre 4186 Piedmont Ave, Oakland July 18-August 4, 2024 Just two of Stacey Peters 7 Aug 2024 · 5 min read
Oakland Global Citizens, Local Fashions Oakland Renaissance: Saint Maurice Fashion Show West Oakland Matters 7th West 1255 7th St, Oakland July 27, 2024 Local art matters, and so do your neighbors. Produced in “The New Stacey Peters 31 Jul 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland El Gallo Crows At The Grand The Grand Gallery 560 2nd St Oakland El Gallo, or Bill Weber, as the government or his friends and family would know him, sat quietly, tucked in a corner and Stacey Peters 28 Jul 2024 · 5 min read
Oakland Turn Up The Turmeric Desta Ethiopian Cafe 303A Oakland Ave Oakland Talk food with me for more than a few minutes and my long abiding love of Ethiopian fare will likely rear its stewed Stacey Peters 19 Jul 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland All Eyes On The Wall Narrative 580 2nd St Oakland Many eyes twinkled at me, refracting their rich gemmed hues onto the wall beneath. They looked heavy together, but light individually, their frames a lustrous Stacey Peters 12 Jul 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland Pho Meat Treat Phő Húóng Quê 200 International Blvd. Oakland Beloved neighborhood restaurant Phő Húóng Quê lies just a block from the edge of Lake Merritt, their unassuming, fast-weathered signage no signifier of Stacey Peters 3 Jul 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland Electric Jazz For Lunch David Lechuga AMP/Oakland Central Lunch and Listen Latham Square 1500 Broadway Ave. Oakland June 20, 2024 Intermittent sunshine broke through, illuminating four men in varying states of dress for Stacey Peters 2 Jul 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland Connection Found In Another Country Called Home ‘Searching for Kapwa’ Film Screening and Discussion Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St., Suite 290, Oakland June 22, 2024 At the Oakland Asian Cultural Center’s screening for Searching Stacey Peters 1 Jul 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Nature, Order, and Disorder in the Art of Life and Death Artists’ Reception: Tara Esperanza, Christine Meuris, Dalar Alahverdi, Leah Korican, and Elizabeth Sher Mercury 20 Gallery 475 25th St. Oakland June 22, 2024 I was wilting under the heat of Stacey Peters 30 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Hope and History Celebrated Through Dance Fallen Heroes, Rising Stars: A Juneteenth Celebration Through Dance 494 9th St., Oakland June 22, 2024 On a closed-off block of 9th Street in Old Oakland, even the sun seemed Stacey Peters 28 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Jazzed for Brunch Jazz Brunch with Future Standard The Cook and Her Farmer 510 9th St. Oakland June 22, 2024 You know the vibes at a jazz brunch are immaculate when a diner Stacey Peters 24 Jun 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland Beauty Without Borders Beyond Trend Runway Show Creative Growth Art Center 355 24th St. Oakland June 22, 2024 On a glittery, gold-colored runway taped to Valdez Street near Lake Merritt, a woman in Stacey Peters 24 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
