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 Lisa Gray 2 Aug 2023 · 3 min read
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 Lisa Gray 28 Jul 2023 · 4 min read
Oakland Grand Avenue Barbie Line Offers Respite From The Real World The movie-goers are as much a part of this story as the blockbuster new Barbie feature film itself, as evidenced by brightly flocked patrons queueing up at the corner of Sarah Bass 28 Jul 2023 · 3 min read
Oakland Saucy? Old Oakland Restaurant’s Name Begs The Question Saucy, a pan-Asian pop-up turned brick-and-mortar restaurant, has occupied at its current location on 8th Street in Old Oakland since spring of 2022. A few blocks from BART, Jack London Sarah Bass 27 Jul 2023 · 4 min read
Oakland The Durability Of Dorothea Lange: Photography As Activism, And Conscience What first draws the eye, even from across the room, is a close-up: the dark hood, the sinewy face, the upward gaze of worry or hope. She is equally plausible Jonathan Kiefer 24 Jul 2023 · 3 min read
Oakland Words Take On New Meaning In Creative Growth’s Text Me Group Exhibition In Gregory Stoper’s ink on paper drawings, pictorial text takes on the intonations of spoken language. In bowed compositions, the artist presents biographical sentences in a downward sloping motion. Theadora Walsh 21 Jul 2023 · 2 min read
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