• Donate
  • Latest News
  • Arts & Community
  • Business
  • City Hall & Policing
  • Events
  • Health
  • Housing
  • Nosh
  • Road Safety
  • Schools
  • Berkeleyside
  • Nosh
  • New Restaurants
  • Nosh Features
  • Newsletters
  • Shop
  • Get in touch
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
Skip to content
  • Newsletters
  • Shop
  • Get in touch
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
The Oaklandside

The Oaklandside

The Oaklandside. Journalism for Oakland.

  • Donate
Donate
  • Latest News
  • Arts & Community
  • Business
  • City Hall & Policing
  • Events
  • Health
  • Housing
  • Nosh
  • Road Safety
  • Schools
  • Berkeleyside
  • Nosh
  • New Restaurants
  • Nosh Features
  • Nosh Logo (Highlight Menu)
  • Nosh

Oakland sideshow hotspots | Where to see the Hayward Fault in action | We're hiring: Nosh Editor

Category: Arts & Community

Posted inArts & Community

Oakland’s equity cannabis dispensaries are reeling from COVID and burglaries

by Ally Markovich June 16, 2020June 16, 2020

Black and brown dispensary owners say they’re working together to pick up the pieces.

Posted inHow We Work

How El Tímpano passes the mic to Spanish-speaking and Indigenous immigrant communities

Jacob Simas headshot by Jacob Simas June 16, 2020March 8, 2021

Journalist Madeleine Bair on Oakland’s media deserts and reaching communities where they’re at.

Posted inHow We Work

Immigrant small businesses: Sharing the stories behind the storefronts

Ricky Rodas headshot by Ricky Rodas June 16, 2020June 16, 2020

Hearing my family’s immigration stories pushed me to become a journalist.

Posted inHow We Work

Covering arts and community in my hometown

Azucena Rasilla headshot by Azucena Rasilla June 16, 2020March 8, 2021

I’m here to report on the “shakers and makers” that make the Town thrive.

Posted inArts & Community

Busted windows to art gallery: local artists are transforming downtown

Azucena Rasilla headshot by Azucena Rasilla June 10, 2020June 17, 2020

Battered blocks have been transformed by astonishing messages of unity and resistance.

Posted inArts & Community

Oakland kids march for Black lives: ‘I just really want to spark a change’

by Sarah Belle Lin June 8, 2020June 13, 2020

Around 4,000 youth and families marched around Lake Merritt in solidarity with Black Lives Matter.

Still from "Essential," a film by Pedal Born Pictures for Berkeleyside Nosh.
Posted inNosh

‘I come here every day for a reason:’ Grocery store workers are essential

Sarah Han headshot by Sarah Han June 8, 2020June 23, 2020

A deep sense of community service drives the staff of West Oakland’s Community Foods Market.

Posted inArts & Community

Black organizers with deep Oakland roots reflect on the protests

by Jeannine Etter and Sarah Belle Lin June 5, 2020June 15, 2020

Carroll Fife, TurHa Ak, John Jones III and Refa One on how this moment compares to movements of the past, and what comes next.

Posted inNosh

Black-owned eateries in Berkeley and Oakland open for takeout

Sarah Han headshot by Sarah Han June 2, 2020June 23, 2020

Sustained monetary support of black entrepreneurs is a meaningful way to help these local restaurants, cafés, catering companies and pop-ups.

Posted inArts & Community

What happened downtown Friday night?

Azucena Rasilla headshot by Azucena Rasilla June 2, 2020June 15, 2020

Local radio host and Oakland native Durell Coleman shares thoughtful reflections on the role of leadership in huge protests, supporting Black businesses and more.

Posted inNosh

East Bay restaurant openings and closings in May

by Joanna Della Penna May 29, 2020June 23, 2020

Learn about the 12 newly opened food and drink venues in Berkeley, Oakland and elsewhere in the East Bay, along with 7 businesses that shuttered permanently.

Posted inArts & Community

Fantastic Negrito’s new album examines the American mindstate

by Eric K. Arnold May 27, 2020June 25, 2020

Feeling “grounded” by the pandemic, Grammy-winning Oakland artist Fantastic Negrito talks about pushing the boundaries of blues on his upcoming album, “Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?”

Posted inArts & Community

What do you do when your job requires personal contact? These Oaklanders got creative

by Anna Mindess May 22, 2020June 25, 2020

A therapist, photographer and hairstylist have innovated to continue their practice in quarantine.

Posted inArts & Community

A 6-story mural to replace a lost ode to Oakland culture

Darwin BondGraham by Darwin BondGraham May 21, 2020June 25, 2020

The ‘Universal Language’ mural on Alice Street was covered up by an apartment tower. An ‘ascendant’ new mural will replace it two blocks away.

Posted inNosh

Good Good Eatz helps Chinatown businesses survive the shutdown

by Cheryl Angelina Koehler May 14, 2020June 23, 2020

A new initiative helps local merchants make connections, get assistance and support other communities in need.

Posts navigation

Newer posts 1 … 30 31 32
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram

We are part of

ABOUT

  • About The Oaklandside
  • How We Work
  • Contact us
  • Write for us
  • Advertise

JOIN US

  • Get our newsletters
  • Donate
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram

OUR MISSION

We’re journalists for Oakland. We amplify community voices, share information resources, and investigate systems, not just symptoms. Learn more

© 2023 Cityside. All Rights Reserved. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic Policies