Oakland We Love Lamp Traveling light exhibit illuminates a Rockridge homeware boutique. Sarah Bass 16 Jun 2025 · 5 min read
All Over Crashing Hard: The Surreal Obsession at the Heart of "Sky Daddy" In a society that values AI over people and their screen addictions, a love affair between a woman and a plane doesn't seem so very strange. Vita Hewitt 12 Jun 2025 · 3 min read
Oakland Tribal Tradition Shines Through Open Studios Wrap: Basketry and the fauna of the tribal homeland inspire many designs at the California Native Glass studio. Jeff Kaliss 11 Jun 2025 · 4 min read
Oakland Layers of Our Collective History This is an artist who has a deep understanding of color and how they interact with one another: in the (open) studio with Alex da Silva. Agustín Maes 6 Jun 2025 · 5 min read
Oakland Art as Ancestry: Reflections from the Diaspora Longing for home and ancestral knowledge from the displaced throbs like a heartbeat in these works, Vita Hewitt 5 Jun 2025 · 3 min read
Oakland More Kids in the Kiln East Bay Open Studios, weekend one. Ceramist Sarah Merola shares her children, in clay, bronze, and zipper. Sarah Bass 4 Jun 2025 · 3 min read
Oakland She Has Her Father’s Eyes And her mother’s fur. A family of paper mache freaks pit stopped in Oakland for a night, charms and delights. Sarah Bass 30 May 2025 · 3 min read
Oakland Wigs, Rights, and Cookie Delights Oaklash 2025 served. “It’s important to let ourselves be wild, to eat, and to fulfill our bodies. Cookie Monster is a good role model for that.” — Girlfriend with Cookie Vita Hewitt 29 May 2025 · 4 min read
Oakland The Future is Now Visions of the future, as brought to you by actors as brought to them by up-and-coming East Bay screenwriters. Sarah Bass 28 May 2025 · 4 min read
Oakland Octaves Aplenty An evening of craft beer, Mexican fare, and the world's biggest harmonica. Agustín Maes 23 May 2025 · 4 min read
Oakland The Poet Remains A Capella Local spoken word poet Shawn William takes the stage tentatively at newly opened cocktail lounge. Sarah Bass 21 May 2025 · 3 min read
Oakland Girl Math: A Bargain for Love and Money Martyna Majok’s “Ironbound” takes Oakland Theater Project’s space, strips it back, and fills it with longing and pain, in a deeply human way. Rita Sapunor 16 May 2025 · 2 min read
Oakland Connectors to Our Shared Humanity Faith photographed: The structures, [Sertorio] says, “all express the beliefs and aspirations of specific people living in a particular time and place; a continuing, shared human search for meaning.” Agustín Maes 16 May 2025 · 5 min read
All Over A City at the Crossroads: Oakland’s Global Role Madrigal has deftly illuminated a web of history, credit, globalization and customer desire that created the landscape that we know of as Oakland today. Vita Hewitt 16 May 2025 · 4 min read
Oakland P-Funktion: Generational Grooves Go Lakeside Parliament Funkadelic, led by George Clinton, showcased its catalogue with a multi-generational show at Oakland’s newly renovated Calvin Simmons Theater. Jeff Kaliss, Tony Daquipa 14 May 2025 · 4 min read
Oakland Glitter, Joy, and Queer Power The orca eyed queen has come a long way: Trixie Mattel and assorted openers brought on a big ole gay dance party brimming with sequins and unbridled joy. Vita Hewitt 13 May 2025 · 3 min read
Oakland Monster Deal of a Meal Thursdays through the end of May Monster Pho is offering dine-in customers a taste of their old school prices. Sarah Bass 8 May 2025 · 2 min read
Oakland Waves, Walls, and Whispers The Oakland Ballet takes on a dark chapter in Asian Immigration. “They wrote their feelings, their emotions, their hopes, their dreams, and their frustrations on the bodies of the dancers who are going to be performing for you today.” Vita Hewitt 7 May 2025 · 3 min read
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