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Jun 3, 2025

Alexis Madrigal examines port city costs

The Port of Oakland stirs before dawn. Cranes rise like steel giants against a fog-stained sky, the air thick with diesel and salt. A container ship groans into a berth, water churning beneath it. Forklifts beep, chains clatter and gulls screech above rumbling trucks whose headlights pierce through the...
Richard Schwartz gives 'Poppy Talk,' not poppycock
Oct 29, 2024

Richard Schwartz gives ‘Poppy Talk,’ not poppycock

There was a time in California, before ranchos and missions, before housing developments and freeways, when Spanish sailors viewed the coastline, seemingly ablaze in orange, and called it tierra del fuego, “land of fire.” The blaze the sailors...
Climate workers reclaiming 'just transition'
Sep 10, 2024

Climate workers reclaiming ‘just transition’

The concept behind a “just transition,” enabling fossil-fuel workers and others to move from their current climate-damaging jobs to ones that pay as well and have equal benefits, is obviously rational. But implementing this concept isn’t easy,...
Nancy Pelosi speaks truth about power in new book
Aug 20, 2024

Nancy Pelosi speaks truth about power in new book

When House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and her husband attended the Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson show at Shoreline Amphitheatre a few weeks ago, they sat in section 102. I sat in 101. The Pelosi entourage arrived right...
Which book receives the most pawsitive reviews?
Aug 8, 2024

Which book receives the most pawsitive reviews?

He’s part dog, part man, a champion of justice—and the canine hero of the Fremont Main Library’s most checked-out book.  Since the beginning of the year, readers have checked out Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea...
Clio's Books Organized by History of Ideas
May 14, 2024

Clio’s Books Organized by History of Ideas

There is a moment in the movie American Fiction that Timothy Don references. This came up in conversation about his interesting organizing style for Clio’s, the bookstore-bar which he owns.  It’s the moment where Theolonious “Monk” Ellison (Jeffrey...
Carolina Ixta's Debut Novel Rooted in Oakland Realness
Mar 26, 2024

Carolina Ixta’s Debut Novel Rooted in Oakland Realness

When Carolina Ixta was a kid, she’d go get haircuts with her mom and sister at a salon in Fruitvale, at 31st and International. Her mom’s highlights would take hours and the sisters would get bored, so...
Caroline Paul's 'Tough Broad' Advises Adventurous Aging
Mar 26, 2024

Caroline Paul’s ‘Tough Broad’ Advises Adventurous Aging

Setting out to resolve a puzzling question about why women over the age of 50 choose or are forced into lives of fear over flat-out fun and fulfillment, New York Times bestselling writer Caroline Paul uncovered the...
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