.Arts & Culture

Feb 11, 2025

Romance cinema curated by relationship type

When writing about movies to watch with one’s spouse, partner, significant other or all by one’s own damn self for Valentine’s Day, I found myself focusing on the futility of such an endeavor. Every single relationship is different, obviously, but even more specific are the things that each of...
Free Will Astrology: Week of Feb. 12
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...
Tribal truths exhibited at Oakland Museum
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...
Social Eyes: Week of Feb. 6-12
Feb 4, 2025

Social Eyes: Week of Feb. 6-12

THURSDAY, FEB. 6 INDIE 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...
Mutt musicians make multiverse rock
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,”...
Silicon Valley’s white boys on dope
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...
‘I’m Still Here’ paints portrait of courage
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...
Free Will Astrology: Week of Feb. 12
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...
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