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Mylo Cardona uses theater to build queer community and resistance
To Oakland’s Mylo Cardona, theater is a space of community and belonging. For them, artistic expression is an extension of both the personal and the political—creation as an act of resistance against hierarchical structures of the status...
Maren Hassinger turns trash into art at BAMPFA
Watch for a scramble in September, when Cal undergraduates will line up to help scatter—and then reclaim—trash. As part of the ongoing retrospective at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), “Maren Hassinger: Living Moving...
Social Eyes: Week of June 25-July 1
This week's calendar picks feature Rx Bandits, the Back Dimples, Ruthie Foster, Hannah Mayer + Nathan Nakadegawa-Lee + Gus Hurteau, 'Fantasia,' Mikailo Kasha Quartet, Don Toliver, Kontusion, Slum Village, and Jim Campilongo Trio.
Free Will Astrology: Week of June 24
Welcome to Cancer season! Now is an auspicious time to declare a sweeping amnesty and observe a personal season of pardon...
Winter Stanley finds his way back to music
Winter Stanley says he’s always loved music for the way it helps connect him to his emotions and his friends. “I picked up the guitar in elementary school, but really became interested in it during junior high,”...
Huney Knuckles builds a new East Bay funk sound
When it comes to locking down a groove, Huney Knuckles is as tough as they come. The scrappy East Bay combo has emerged in recent years as one of the most dependably funky bands on the local...
Sameer Gupta builds an artist hub in North Oakland
A few weeks ago, in a rare pilgrimage to the East Bay, the St. John Coltrane African Orthodox Church set up in a former real estate office at the corner of Telegraph and 58th Street and delivered...
