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News + Politics

Would Walton’s CAREN bill have saved Alex Nieto’s life?

Tim Redmond - July 8, 2020

Sup. Shamann Walton has introduced legislation that would make it illegal to call 911 based on racial profiling, and the so-called CAREN act is...

A display of belonging and hope in Chinatown (and on Instagram)

Emily Wilson - July 6, 2020

For the last few years, the Chinese Culture Center (CCC), has been working to democratize how art is experienced, says curator Hoi Leung. The...

New Music: An array of excellent sounds to discover (and artists to support)

John-Paul Shiver - July 2, 2020

Here we are halfway through 2020, with so much to keep an attentive eye on that you might walk into the shower fully clothed....

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Cinema’s future in doubt, but these world classics endure

Dennis Harvey - July 1, 2020

Movie theaters (drive-ins aside—who’d have imagined they’d get a comeback?) remain closed for the time being, their re-openings TBD in the Bay Area and...

Lit

A laser, a dog, and grape gum lead to feminist superpower in ‘Equality Girls’

Emily Wilson - June 30, 2020

Aya de León, author and lecturer in the African American Studies department at UC Berkeley, reads a lot of books to her 10-year-old daughter....

News + Politics

Uber, Lyft drivers take message to CEO’s house

Garrett Leahy - June 25, 2020

For longtime Uber and Lyft driver Hector Castellanos, the fight for classification as an employee under AB5 is personal. For eight months after an...

News + Politics

Labor unions join call to defund the police

Garrett Leahy - June 18, 2020

A group of about 150 demonstrators representing several Bay Area labor unions gathered outside the Oakland Police Officers Association headquarters on Wednesday, endorsing calls...

Business + Tech

The plutonium of Artificial Intelligence could be coming to a city near you

Tim Kingston - June 10, 2020

Of all the tools of mass surveillance deployed by law enforcement, private industry and the federal government, Facial Recognition Technology poses by far the...

The radical glamour and versatility of Bonnie Pointer

John-Paul Shiver - June 9, 2020

The first time Oakland's famous sibling group The Pointer Sisters performed "Yes We Can Can" on Don Cornelius' hippiest trip in America, two minutes...

Housing

Safe sleeping spaces — or cages?

Tiny - May 20, 2020

C.A.R.E. For the homeless On some street In Saint Pete Looks like A cage For people.... -- excerpt of the poem People Cages by Dee Allen /Po Poet “It feels like we...

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Would Walton’s CAREN bill have saved Alex Nieto’s life?

A display of belonging and hope in Chinatown (and on Instagram)

New Music: An array of excellent sounds to discover (and artists to support)

Screen Grabs: Cinema’s future in doubt, but these world classics endure

A laser, a dog, and grape gum lead to feminist superpower in ‘Equality Girls’

Uber, Lyft drivers take message to CEO’s house

Labor unions join call to defund the police

The plutonium of Artificial Intelligence could be coming to a city near you

The radical glamour and versatility of Bonnie Pointer

Safe sleeping spaces — or cages?

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