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Nov 3, 2010
Hello, Wanna Give to a Good Cause?
Angela Badami just wanted to make a difference. After living abroad, the 25-year-old returned to the United States in the summer of 2006 amidst...
Nov 3, 2010
The Art of Canvassing
Canvasser William White stands in the middle of the sidewalk on Shattuck Avenue, just to the side of The Cheese Board in North Berkeley....
Oct 22, 2010
Manu Chao Proves Himself a Worldly Music Man
Perhaps it was the dizzying array of vaguely deciphered multilingual lyrics and the rapid succession of reggae beats, acoustic homemade techno rhythms, and punk...
Apr 15, 2009
The Black Keys: Loud, Simple, and Direct
Despite their angsty, dolefully themed anthems conjuring sweaty
images of hardship and sun-soaked Alabama blacktop, the two white boys
from Akron, Ohio, that make up the...
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Jan 28, 2009
Too Cool for School
On January 5, the first day back from winter break, the principal of
Oakland's Emiliano Zapata Street Academy high school called up the
district and threatened...
Jan 21, 2009
House Calls
On a dark early evening in November, Channing Woodsum climbs the
stairs of Maria's 36th Avenue apartment building in East Oakland....
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Dec 17, 2008
Stranded at the Bus Stop
Four years ago, Beatrice Kanwea escaped the bloodshed and turmoil of
her native Liberia. Nearly penniless, she and her family settled into a
tiny apartment in...
Sep 17, 2008
The Fest by the Bay
In 1937, as the Great Depression raged on, federal workmen dumped tons of landfill into a shallow spot of the Bay between San Francisco...