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She told the truth anyway
She arrives at Kinfolx Cafe in a hot-pink, crocheted two-piece—off the shoulder, hand-knitted—and the outfit tells the crowd something. Oubria Tronshaw does not show up in borrowed clothes. She makes the thing herself and wears it loud....
New book details fight to shut youth prisons
In the 1990s, writes Albany-based author Nell Bernstein in her new book In Our Future We Are Free, a myth emerged—that of so-called “juvenile superpredators.” It was fueled by pseudoscience, notably the writings of Princeton University political...
‘Downtown Doors’ offers an entrance to compassion
The many doors in Downtown Doors, local author Natasha Tripplett’s new children’s book, are all in Oakland, although the neighborhood through which Wendall and his mother travel on this particular day is a composite.
Wendall sees and interacts...
RIP, Malcolm Margolin
Malcolm Margolin, who died Aug. 20 at age 84, loved language. Words were his passion as the founder of Heyday, the independent nonprofit press launched in 1974 that grew to include Heyday Books, the Berkeley-based powerhouse publishing...
Guide to flying artwork
What lifts the heart more than unexpectedly encountering a beautiful piece of Nature’s artwork, a.k.a. a butterfly? The Smithsonian says approximately 17,500 species have been identified globally, and no one yet knows what glories still float about...
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...
Gabby La La’s visual memoir captures extraordinary in the ordinary
For musician, artist and mother Gabby La La, art has always been a part of life.
Whether watching her father sketch bubble letters at the coffee table or immersing herself in her own creative expression, drawing became second...
