Women Helping Women Succeed
Nov 26, 2024

Women Helping Women Succeed

The mail carrier delivered another piece of mail addressed to the former occupant.  But this time, the soft-cover book, The Giving List: Women Doing It Differently, turned out to be full of interest—in particular, including its profiles of...
Terry Gross ignited by improvised jams
Dec 3, 2024

Terry Gross ignited by improvised jams

Terry Gross just released Huge Improvement, an album of tunes based around their improvised jams. The band is a trio—bass player Donny Newenhouse, guitarist Phil Manley and drummer Phil Becker—of longtime veterans of the Bay Area music...
Social Eyes: Week of Dec. 5-11
Dec 3, 2024

Social Eyes: Week of Dec. 5-11

THURSDAY HIP-HOP BIGXTHAPLUG At only 26, BigXthaPlug has already lived a couple of lifetimes. Growing up on the streets of Texas, he remembers being four or five and sitting on his mother’s knee as she shot at a would-be house...
Nov 26, 2024

Free Will Astrology: Week of Nov. 27

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Renowned composer Mozart had a sister nicknamed Nannerl. During their childhoods, she was as much a musical prodigy as he....
Shaka Shack serves it up Hawaiian-style
The bright yellow Locos Only food truck—the one with the anthropomorphized pineapple on the side—has made appearances at East Bay breweries, events and wineries since 2018....
Bangkok by the Bay opens in Berkeley
When I opened the menu at Bangkok by the Bay, the last thing I wanted to order was pad Thai. It’s possible I’ve eaten that classic...
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