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Jun 27, 2023
Best of the East Bay 2023 – Introduction
Simply the Best
The Bay Area thrives, even in trying times
Yes, the title of this year’s introduction to the East Bay Express: Best of the...
Nov 23, 2022
The Gift of Green
Joshua Chase and Oakanna stand out when the smoke clears
The Oakanna cannabis store bears quite a few distinctions. For one, it’s the first cannabis...
Sep 7, 2022
Pride, Purpose, Passion: Joe Hawkins celebrates 5 years of Oakland’s LGBTQ Center with a...
In August of 2019, EBX sat down with Oakland LGBTQ Center CEO Joe Hawkins and vice president Dawn Edwards, to celebrate two years of...
Jul 20, 2022
Welcome to Best of the East Bay: 2022 is a doozy, but we got...
2022 has been, shall we say, an intense year so far. Even as we continue to endure a virus that has wavered some, while...
Nov 17, 2021
Cosmic Blackness: Afrosurreal artist Christopher Burch unveils a mural meant to inspire, educate and...
Full disclosure: Christopher Burch is my brother, comrade, friend and inspiration. We’ve known each other for more than a handful of years, and still,...
Aug 25, 2021
Our Man ‘Ish’: Ishmael Reed reflects on life, art, music and home
"Some have called Ish a 'trickster,' and Ralph Ellison—in a drunken rant at a gala in New York City when he was in his 30s—once called him a 'criminal and a con-man,' but few call this poet, author, publisher, Columbus Foundation president, musician, playwright, founder of the American Book Awards, screen-writer and cartoonist a Renaissance man," D. Scot Miller writes.
May 26, 2021
Go Outside
EBX starts the summer off right with this year’s Best of Nature
In the Bay Area, residents tend to heap praise upon the California redwoods...