Medicine Archives

Drug policy

Breed looks for political points by finding more ways to punish poor people

Tim Redmond - September 27, 2023

The latest: Drug testing for welfare recipients, which will never work and probably never happen. Do we live in San Francisco or Texas?

Environment

Health Commission meeting turns into discussion of toxics at Hunters Point

Tim Redmond - August 16, 2023

A modest administrative change sets off a fury as speakers demand better testing at the shipyard development site.

News + Politics

Legendary Oakland martial arts club—and its founder—face eviction

Tiny - August 13, 2023

Casco's Martial Arts may be forced to close, and Sensei Owens and his wife forced into homelessness.

Lit

The great Green Arcade bookstore is closing

Marke B. - July 19, 2023

Patrick Marks' literary center of progressive politics and radical writing shuts Sun/23. Go visit one last time.

Homelessness

The destruction of a community in Oakland

Tiny - April 20, 2023

Police, bulldozers evict longtime residents of Wood Street Commons.

Healthcare

Long COVID has reached the ‘Russian Roulette’ stage in the US

Bruce Mirken - March 28, 2023

As the nation seeks to return to a maskless, congregate 'normal,' the brutal virus is still out there, and repeated infections seem linked to longterm health problems.

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: OK, how about a Valentine’s dance and roller-disco block party?

Marke B. - February 8, 2023

Plus: SF Beer Week, Ritual of Myth Making, Black Choreographers Festival, Valentechno, Blackwater Holylight, more

Music

Under the Stars: Oakland’s Orchestra Gold is on the verge with Afro-psych flair

John-Paul Shiver - January 17, 2023

Plus: Evident joy of Seven Davis Jr.'s 'savedbythebell'—and a lost Madonna track from 1985?

Lit

11+ books that stuck with us in 2022 (and a good part come from the East Bay)

Lou Fancher - January 2, 2023

Leila Mottley, Hua Hsu, Ibram X. Kendi, Ericka Huggins, even an appearance by Barack Obama on this year's list

News + Politics

Our top stories of 2022

Marke B. - December 28, 2022

Protests, recalls, monkeypox, garlic noodles, drag queens, rappers, Raver Girl: Essential coverage of a wild year

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