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Health centers face funding cuts
Eight Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) operate in the East Bay, receiving federal funds to provide healthcare services to medically underserved communities. These health centers serve 290,000 people—regardless of income level or insurance status—at over 140 clinic...
Free Will Astrology: Week of Oct. 14
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Before Aries-born Maya Angelou became a celebrated author, she was San Francisco’s first Black female streetcar conductor, a calypso dancer, a cook, a journalist in Ghana and an actress. She didn’t publish her...
Future Ink masters blackout tattoos
At Future Ink on Broadway in Oakland, a man with both arms completely blacked out stands at a mirror photographing his latest tattoo.
He goes by Nero and came to this tattoo shop because Kevin Ligabue, founder of...
Free Will Astrology: Week of Oct. 7
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Dear Oracle: My secret terror is being ordinary. I need to be special, and lately I’m worried I’m just average...
Richmond’s Burger Spot Co. serves smash burgers
In the Burger Olympics, the “smash” has now ascended to the highest step on the podium. Even though the origin story goes back a century or...
Bay Area Burger Week: Where to get your burger fix
Bay Area Burger Week returns Oct. 7–18 for 12 days of burger-centric eating across the region. Participating restaurants are offering one or more burgers, sides, beverages...
