FOLLOW US
.Culture
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...
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,”...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
