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‘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...
Cartoonist depicts memories, mixtapes and the magic of writing notes
Briana Loewinsohn’s Raised by Ghosts begins with a note to the reader: This is not a love story. It is a love letter.
In the Oakland-based cartoonist’s latest book, a semi-autobiographical young adult graphic novel set in early...
Aaron Carnes releases second edition of ska book
For many in the Bay Area, the times seem very, hopelessly dark. There’s no escaping the chaotic hellscape that the country—and world—currently finds itself in. It doesn’t take a therapist to know the importance of investing in...
