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Nov 22, 2023
Free Gainel Hamilton
Eighty-five-year-old Gainel Hamilton smiles ear-to-ear as her family files into her room in the locked section of San Miguel Villa, in Concord. When Hamilton’s son, Robin Andre Flippin, walks in with a bouquet of flowers and approaches...
Nov 21, 2023
MAKR House and Landrace Origins
Beginning around nine in the morning, people gather at a kickback session on Piedmont Avenue in Oakland with other young professional cannabis enthusiasts in the mood for a cup of coffee.
Cannabis and coffee are a classic combination...
Nov 22, 2023
Music and Trees
Laurie Lewis has played her post-Thanksgiving shows at Berkeley’s Freight & Salvage for the past 20 years. “I call them my concerts of gratitude,” she said, speaking from her Berkeley home. “I use the evening to explore...
Nov 22, 2023
Ridley Scott, the filmmaker behind Napoleon, is a European. Of course, the veteran producer-director, a native of South Shields, in the Tyne and Wear district of...
Nov 14, 2023
In director Todd Haynes’ difficult-to-admire May December, the characters inhabit the upscale surroundings of Savannah, Georgia. And yet the dramatic atmosphere is so brittle, the personalities...