Oakland Seven Minutes within the Heavens An unexpectedly sacred moment of contemplative artistic ritual via VR headset. Sarah Bass 30 Jun 2025 · 2 min read
Oakland Hardcore at Sundown with the Nicest People Camaraderie, goodwill, and LOUDNESS at Oakland's Stay Gold Deli for a summer solstice show. Agustín Maes 27 Jun 2025 · 4 min read
Oakland 25th Annual Malcolm X Jazz Festival For the twenty fifth year, Oakland got down to grooves, grub, and graffiti for Malcolm X Jazz Fest. Frederick Noland 25 Jun 2025 · 1 min read
Oakland Solid Ground A restricted color palette certainly does not damper strength of works: a solo show by Yameng Lee Thorp at Pt. 2 Gallery is filled with feeling. Sarah Bass 24 Jun 2025 · 3 min read
Oakland Joy, Bright Spark of Divinity! Beethoven's 9th on Friday the 13th, as told by Oakland Symphony Orchestra for the 2024-2025 season finale. Agustín Maes 19 Jun 2025 · 5 min read
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
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