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Fog City News celebrates 20 years of great reads (and sweet treats)

Marke B. - November 7, 2019

1200+ magazines carried. 4000+ chocolates evaluated. 1000+ greeting cards displayed. All in the cozy 920 square-foot Fog City News downtown, which is celebrating 20...

News + Politics

For unhoused people, every day is an emergency

Tiny - October 31, 2019

“We can’t take all that shit with us in this one hefty bag…” “But mama, this is my favorite pair of jeans.” “I don’t give a...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Day of the Dead in the City of Souls

Marke B. - October 30, 2019

Ready to shed the rotting pumpkin skin of Halloween and sniff the sweet spice of the afterlife? OK that question is a lot, but...

Can a museum exhibit capture Burning Man?

Steven T. Jones - October 22, 2019

It has blinky lights, art cars, the gifting of trinkets, and the Temple of Reunion by legendary temple-builder David Best. There’s cool video from...

Broken-beat pioneer Mark de Clive-Lowe revives his CHURCH

John-Paul Shiver - October 22, 2019

Way before old-guard magazines and new-school platform writers, present company included, broke their own minds blathering at the top of their Twitter voice about the current...

Michael Sneed’s ‘Days We Lost’ claps back at depression, debt

John-Paul Shiver - October 15, 2019

When Oakland artist Michael Sneed returned home in 2017 from graduating college in Washington DC, he didnʻt feel all that celebratory. Trying to sort out the next...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: El Rio saved, Litquake aquiver, Open Studios opens….

Marke B. - October 10, 2019

ARTS FORECAST File under: more of this please! According to the Bay Area Reporter, the buildings housing legendary Latinx queer bar El Rio have...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: News of the world at the Arab Film Fest

Dennis Harvey - October 8, 2019

Who knows if we’ll ever see the day when the Arab Film Film Festival does not seem of urgent political relevance. But this year’s...

The Onyx spirals upward, beaming ‘Black Girl Magic’

Joanna Ladd - October 7, 2019

It’s a Thursday night at The Uptown in Oakland, and people are filtering in for the opening set. Six black women take the stage,...

Culture

Celebrating 50 groundbreaking years of Ethnic Studies with ‘Solidarity’

Emily Wilson - October 7, 2019

When he was 13, PJ Gubatina Policarpio moved from the Philippines to San Francisco’s Excelsior District. As a student at Balboa High School, he...

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