Thursday, May 2, 2024

Tagged with: Oakland

Saving money by not going out for coffee? Here’s where you can donate it

One of the most striking takeaways of the crisis triggered by COVID-19 is how unevenly it affects people. Multiple economic sectors face staggering job...

With Thao’s ‘Phenom’ video, indie enters the Zoom era

There's a 24-hour bodega—remember those—in the video for “Meticulous Bird” from 2017 by Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, which would fare better if it kept regular...

Burger Boogaloo, other big fests reschedule in COVID wake

The forthcoming 11th annual Burger Boogaloo festival, held in Oakland’s Mosswood Park and originally planned for July 11 and 12 has been rescheduled for Halloween weekend due to...

Arts Forecast: Help save bookstores, drag queens, Frameline, more

Let's start with something positive! And then some more things positive! We deserve it. Except those of you joggers still cutting me off on...

Mayor, supervisors at odds over hotel rooms for homeless

UPDATE: The first case of COVID in a homeless shelter has been reported.  The Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday to place sheltered...

Silenced in place? SF’s resilient music scene faces its latest obstacle

As Broken Horse, an enduring San Francisco band that calls its oeuvre Western Doom Noir, erupted into tuning instruments at its Rite Spot comeback show...

Screen Grabs: Buckle up for more cinematic adventure

Part Two of our armchair audiovisual world tour offers more scenic and adventuresome distraction from “shelter-at-home” stasis. (Part One is here.) While we’re not heavily...

The virus of poverty

I was born into a deadly Virus No it wasn’t in the time of MERS, Ebola or Osiris -  It was a disease that kills- that...

New Music: ‘Who Sent You?’ asks free jazz combo Irreversible Entanglements

"We’re living in the present, and there are pressing issues that are happening to us personally," stated bassist Luke Stewart of the free-jazz outfit...

Foreign correspondent: I was under a brief coronavirus quarantine

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. On February 22, I left Iran after a week of covering the country’s parliamentary elections. Ten days...