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Jul 20, 2022
Shop Local: How Oaklandish gives back
Purchasing items from Oaklandish—Oakland’s 20-year-old apparel brand and social experiment in culture-keeping, community-building and promotion of civic pride—will help you give back in ways...
Nov 25, 2020
Gifts from Oaklandish give back
While the pandemic will force the reinvention of many holiday traditions this year, gift-giving will persist. But before you start speed-scrolling Amazon’s virtual aisles...
Nov 4, 2020
Powering the Polls
Over the last four years, the word unprecedented has been called into action so frequently (and also mangled, by a notable Twitter user who...
Sep 23, 2020
How to Halloween during Covid-19
There is a sidewalk-lined stretch of street in Oakland’s hilly Upper Rockridge neighborhood that transforms, every Halloween night, into a mob scene. As darkness...
Sep 2, 2020
Fundraising While Black
When Bay Area actor and educator Aldo Billingslea began leveraging Facebook to market an ambitious $1M Fund for Black Theatre in the US, his...
Aug 26, 2020
Banding Together
In July, the American Alliance of Museums announced the results of a spring 2020 national survey with this warning: “One out of every three...