The local singer describes her new album, a collection of personal coming-of-age-stories, as her ‘big reveal.’
Category: Arts & Community
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As crises pile up, Oakland youth climate activists say it’s beyond time to act
Teens leading the climate justice movement in Oakland say this is the moment they’ve been warning people about.
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Obi Kaufmann delivers a message of hope – and resilience – in his new field atlas on California’s forests
‘The Forests of California’ is a gorgeously illustrated book featuring Kaufmann’s watercolors. It is also a primer on how to approach nature.
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Fremont High’s Media Academy: ‘The best-kept secret in East Oakland’
Four films made by students at the academy are being featured in this year’s virtual Fruitvale Short Film Series.
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Immigrants navigate the healthcare system in “A Place to Breathe”
Filmmakers Michelle Grace Steinberg and Robyn Bykofsky follow the work of Oakland’s Street Level Health Project in their new documentary.
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Aida Salazar’s ‘Land of the Cranes’ is an immigrant tale of hope
The Oakland-based author’s second book is told through the eyes of a child separated from her father and locked in a detention center.
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Oak Harvest Kitchen’s new family meals support jobs for the formerly incarcerated
The nonprofit vegan restaurant, which employs and trains people after prison, launched the new program last month.
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Orange Oakland: Photos and feelings from across the city on a very strange day
Oakland residents share photos and thoughts with us, comparing the smokey skies to Mars, Mordor, and the apocalypse.
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Oakland Pride kicks off this weekend, online
The scaled-down pride online festivities will include a virtual vendor village that will run all this month.
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One cherished shop in Oakland’s Laurel closes, but there’s hope for others
Movement Ink shuts down this month. Meanwhile, the online directory Local Motiv is tracking business closures and hoping for the future of retail.
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Jamming for a cause at Lake Merritt with Ben Esposito, Camille Collins, and friends
The 19-year-old drummer from Alameda and 17-year-old Berkeley saxophonist are turning a small patch of Eastshore Park into a jazz stage.
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Tributes to Chadwick Boseman, an honorary Oaklander
2018’s Black Panther lifted up Oakland in so many ways. Countless local fans mourn Boseman’s passing.
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Hundreds of Dorothea Lange’s photographs are now available in digital format from OMCA
With serendipitous timing, ideally suited to a pandemic, OMCA has just opened the Dorothea Lange Digital Archive, a free, online experience showcasing the work of the world-renowned documentary photographer.
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Local filmmaker points lens at another public health crisis: lead poisoning in Oakland
Alex Bledsoe’s forthcoming ‘OAKLEAD’ documentary elucidates the relationships between race, socioeconomic status and access to adequate healthcare and housing.
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Beyond business: Oakland’s LGBTQ establishments offer community
For decades, these bars and shops have been support networks, too. The pandemic brings new challenges.
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Crystal Wahpepah is clearing a path for Indigenous chefs
The celebrated Oakland chef was the first Native contestant to appear on the Food Network’s ‘Chopped.’
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Oakland’s original boogaloos speak out, in hopes of reclaiming their culture
Pioneers of a funky Bay Area dance style are fighting to preserve their history, after an extremist alt-right movement appropriates their name.
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“A bigger, wilder expression:” former Wolfman Books workers plan co-op bookshop
The Wolfemme+Them collective is fundraising to reopen the downtown Oakland storefront as a shop and events space.
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Street vending at Lake Merritt: race, space, and COVID-19
Black and brown vendors operating without permits say they need the lake, and the lake needs them. What should the city do?
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The art and clave of John Santos
With his new album, Oakland musician John Santos has taken his message of resistance into the belly of the beast.
