Oakland Archives - Page 84 of 120

News + Politics

We’ve been counted and studied. We still don’t have homes.

Tiny - May 22, 2019

“Excuse me, how many of you are sleeping under there?” a nasal voice yelled into the cardboard box my mama and me were sleeping...

Arts + Culture

Arts Forecast: Open up your world with the SF International Arts Festival

Caitlin Donohue - May 22, 2019

ARTS FORECAST Sure you're broke — so let the artists from Hong Kong, Ireland, and the Czech Republic come to you? Such is the...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: White Night rally marks SF’s legacy of insurrection

Caitlin Donohue - May 15, 2019

ARTS FORECAST It was a bitter pill for the Castro the day Supervisor Harvey Milk and George Moscone were gunned down in City Hall in...

‘Queer California: Untold Stories’: a confetti shower of the overlooked

Matt Sussman - May 10, 2019

ART LOOKS Traversing decades, mediums, and populations, Queer California: Untold Stories, on view through August 11 at the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA), aims...

Arts + Culture

Arts Forecast: The week’s best moments to honor Momma

Caitlin Donohue - May 8, 2019

ARTS FORECAST Every day is a good day to show Mom love, but this weekend is an excuse to go in big. Mother’s Day...

A stellar Mutek.SF refreshed spirits weary of tech’s cynical slide

Winston Mann - May 7, 2019

We descended on last weekend's MUTEK San Francisco festival drifting through a massive digital space station, orbiting weightless above a radiant earth, which soon dissolved, revealing...

Onstage

‘We Have Iré’ celebrates the Afro-Cuban immigrant experience—and challenge

Emily Wilson - May 4, 2019

ONSTAGE Paul Flores grew up in Chula Vista, California, near the Mexican border. His single mom worked a lot, and his grandmother was a central...

Movies

Hello Kitty to ‘Happy Cleaners’: Asian American film shines at CAAMFest

Dennis Harvey - May 1, 2019

From SF’s own Chinatown to the crisscrossing currents of transnational adoption, this year’s CAAMFest—formerly known as the San Francisco Asian American Film Festival—covers the...

News + Politics

The Patty Hearst kidnapping and the rise of community-based organizations in SF

Calvin Welch - April 25, 2019

UPDATED, see the end. The 1974 kidnapping of Patricia “Patty” Hearst, granddaughter of the founder of the Hearst media empire, was a dramatic chapter in...

Onstage

What is Bay Area drag? Oaklash Festival has some wild ideas

Caitlin Donohue - April 25, 2019

"Television is not nor has it ever been the ultimate form of drag," Oaklash Drag Festival co-founder and performer and East Bay-based drag queen...

Tagged with: Oakland

News

Politics

Arts

Culture