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Get Bourgie on a Budget With These 20 East Bay Happy Hours
Oakland's roots are blue collar, and in turn its bars and restaurants once swung to the working-class end of the socioeconomic pendulum....
The Best Fiction of 2014
We Were Liars
By E. Lockhart
$17.99
We Were Liars begins with the bones of a pulpy television drama, or maybe a trashy beach read — well-heeled...
Un-Guilty Pleasures
Frog Music
By Emma Donaghue
In 2010, Emma Donoghue rocketed to the top of local and national bestseller lists with Room, a haunting, taut, utterly unforgettable...
St. Vincent
In an interview published last week in the Boston Globe, Annie Clark — aka St. Vincent — revealed that while writing and recording her...
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
The album title speaks volumes: First, there's the reference, to the summer-of-'75 O'Jays hit of the same name, part of a lineage of black...
Angel Haze
Dirty Gold entered the world auspiciously: In late December, after what were apparently a series of frustrating label negotiations and release-date delays for her...
Ellen Cushing’s Top Five Albums of 2013
Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampires of the City
Fuck the haters, though Vampire Weekend's are legion and somewhat legitimate: The band's 2008 self-titled debut was smug...
