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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...
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...
Dec 3, 2024
Social Eyes: Week of Dec. 5-11
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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...
Dec 3, 2024
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....
Nov 26, 2024
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...