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Mar 26, 2024
Calendar Picks: Week of Mar. 28-Apr. 3
THURSDAY
JAZZ
THE CHARLIE HUNTER & SCOTT AMENDOLA DUO
Musical sparring partners for three decades, Berkeley-reared and North Carolina-based guitar wizard Charlie Hunter and Berkeley drummer Scott Amendola regrouped for their latest groove-centric musical dialogue. The show is sold out,...
Mar 26, 2024
Toriano Gordon Enters New Phase with ‘Vegan Mob Cookbook’
Toriano Gordon closed the Vegan Mob’s Oakland hub last September. Gordon refurbished the former Kwik Way with his brand’s distinctive color, a neon green that illuminates Lake Park Avenue day and night. The atomic-age carport is still...
Mar 26, 2024
Free Will Astrology: Week of March 27
ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the coming days, your hunger will be so inexhaustible that you may feel driven to devour extravagant amounts of food and drink. It’s possible you will gain 10 pounds in a very...
Mar 19, 2024
Film Review: ‘Carol Doda Topless at the Condor’
Just when it seems that San Francisco’s dope, sex and rock ’n’ roll scene in the 1960s has been covered from every conceivable angle, along comes Marlo McKenzie and Jonathan Parker’s entertaining documentary, Carol Doda Topless at...
Mar 19, 2024
Rhonda Benin Busts a Move
NASA and private space exploration companies—listen up, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson and others—could learn a lot from Rhonda Benin. The East Bay-based jazz and blues vocalist remains, at age 69, all about discovery.
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Mar 19, 2024
Calendar Picks: Week of Mar. 21-27
THURSDAY
ROCK
INTERVALS & HAIL THE SUN
No, this isn’t a single entity but two separate bands sharing the headline. Intervals is the wildly entertaining instrumental Canadian metal (Progressive? Math rock?) group. Founded in 2011 by multi-instrumentalist Aaron Marshall and...
Mar 19, 2024
Frances8 Music as Therapy
The songs Nicole Laby writes for her band, Frances8, deal with real-life situations in a literary manner that’s one step removed from the usual pop music approach. “I like to dig beneath the surface,” Laby said. “I’ve...