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Jul 1, 2025

Oakland kids clown around for success

Forty years ago, Aileen Moffitt taught at Prescott Elementary in Oakland. Moffitt, an Oakland native, was white, teaching in a predominantly Black school. Her background also included juggling and clowning and, mentored by African American teachers, she created a program first known as “Prescott Clowns” and today known as...
Hello Kitty Cafe Truck celebrates 10 years
May 2, 2025

Hello Kitty Cafe Truck celebrates 10 years

Rekindling a love for Hello Kitty opens the floodgates of childhood memories and nostalgia for East Bay fans who gathered at the 10th year anniversary celebration of the Hello Kitty Cafe Truck in Bay Street Emeryville.  The Hello...
East End Filipino Fest comes to Alameda
Apr 29, 2025

East End Filipino Fest comes to Alameda

On May 3 the East End Filipino Fest, an invitation by organizers for people all around to connect with Filipino community and culture, happens in Alameda. “In 1587 Filipinos were the first Asian people to come to America,”...
Making friends with AI
Mar 4, 2025

Making friends with AI

The seed of this story was planted years ago, as I waited for my morning coffee, listening to my neighbor in line. The sweet, diminutive, white-haired older woman spoke glowingly about “my Siri.” There was no mistaking...
To live long and be well, go Gaga
Mar 4, 2025

To live long and be well, go Gaga

For longterm health and wellbeing, explore the snake in your spine, gesture with your skin, inscribe circles in the air with your coccyx bone and move fast, but also incredibly slowly. In less words: To live long...
Valen-train makes new connections
Feb 25, 2025

Valen-train makes new connections

The German novelist Thomas Mann once defined love as essentially “our sympathy with organic life.” In that sense public transit needs love as much as its riders do, so one Bay Area Rapid Transit rider made the...
Pacific Pinball Museum plans to expand
Jan 14, 2025

Pacific Pinball Museum plans to expand

It all started in the not-yet-United States when French soldiers fighting on the colonists’ side during the Revolution brought over a game called “Bagatelle.” Named for its possible invention in the mid-1700s at the Chateau Bagatelle, the...
Daybreaker Makes Peace Moves for the Masses
Jun 11, 2024

Daybreaker Makes Peace Moves for the Masses

A wave of peace is coming to the Bay, thanks to the Daybreaker community, and founder and CEO, Radha Agrawal. Kicking off its 11th season with “The Peace Tour,” the NYC-based dance event organization Daybreaker throws a...
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