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Oakland filmmakers build local industry
The TV shows I’m a Virgo and Blindspotting were both led by Oakland creatives who envisioned filming the entirety of their projects in the...
Future Ink masters blackout tattoos
At Future Ink on Broadway in Oakland, a man with both arms completely blacked out stands at a mirror photographing his latest tattoo.
He goes...
AI founders explore psychedelic consciousness
When AI, math and physics researcher Alejandro Zarzuelo first arrived in the Bay Area from Spain, he joined friends he’d met online from similar...
Berkeley residents challenge scooter parking
Electric scooters: Once one notices them, they’re hard to miss. In many neighborhoods around Berkeley it’s common to encounter two, and sometimes even three,...
Oakland students fight sex trafficking with their voices
Dream Youth Clinic occupies a small, gray building in Oakland right off I-980. Colorful murals and a spattering of posters cover its interior, creating...
The Hellas blend punk, ska and cumbia
Through a maze of blue-splattered walls, the Hellas have carved themselves a home base in a north San Jose rehearsal studio. Inside their space,...
Truong Tran confronts language and identity
What happens when language is permanently fragmented without one’s control?
While far from a debut project, Truong Tran’s How to Exi(s)t: A Poet’s Memoir is...
Bay Area cities rethink downtown revitalization strategies
Kimberley Davidson has lived in Oakland her whole life and remembers when she could spend all day and all night downtown. She says you...
