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Feb 11, 2025
Free Will Astrology: Week of Feb. 12
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Love requires stability and steadiness to thrive. But it also needs unpredictability and imaginativeness. The same with friendship. Without creative touches and departures from routine, even strong alliances can atrophy into mere sentiment...
Feb 4, 2025
Tribal truths exhibited at Oakland Museum
Most of the East Bay is considered Ohlone land that was stolen from the tribe by Spanish and American forces. That may be a hard truth for many of us to face and accept. Feelings of guilt...
Feb 4, 2025
Social Eyes: Week of Feb. 6-12
THURSDAY, FEB. 6
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STEPHANIE STRANGE
Stephanie Strange’s lyrics mix clear-eyed social critique with a flair for theatrics and dark humor. In “The Man Who Doomed the World,” for example, she sings calmly and steadily, “The sky she is falling/The...
Feb 4, 2025
Mutt musicians make multiverse rock
The musicians in Mutt chose the name of their band because, like a dog with a genealogy formed from multiple breeds, the trio embraces any style that catches their fancy.
“I always think I’m writing country songs,”...
Feb 4, 2025
Silicon Valley’s white boys on dope
When Elon Musk smoked weed on Joe Rogan’s podcast in 2018, there was a general freakout. The media treated it as if Musk had done something naughty, even though pot was already legal in California by then.
And...
Feb 4, 2025
‘I’m Still Here’ paints portrait of courage
In the opening frames of Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here, we’re introduced to the Paiva family of Rio de Janeiro, through a montage of scenes of ordinary life in that fabled tropical city. Kids playing futebol and...
Feb 4, 2025
Free Will Astrology: Week of Feb. 5
ARIES (March 21-April 19): The world’s largest mirror isn’t an actual mirror. It’s Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni salt flat, a vast area that’s almost perfectly flat. After a rain, a thin layer of calm water transforms the...