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Bright Sparks: While the Oakland Fire Department Takes Heat, a New Generation of Firefighters...
Paul Mason listens to an officer during a wildland training exercise in the Oakland hills. Since the 1991 firestorm, academy recruits are rigorously trained...
The Last Straws? Several East Bay Governments Aim to Ban the Plastic Foodware.
Pat Lamborn and her husband, Jim DuPont, enjoy escaping their crowded duplex for the sandy panorama of Alameda’s beaches. But the avid birders often...
Photographs For a New Era of Resistance at the Oakland Museum of California
The first images at Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing, now on show at the Oakland Museum of California.
Credits: Photo by Rosa Furneaux
At the...
Documentary Filmmaker Sebastian Junger Discusses How Hell on Earth Hurls Viewers into Syria’s Terrifying...
Filmmaker Sebastian Junger.
Credits: Photo Courtesy Of Mark K. Updegrove and Sebastian Junger
Heavy gasps fill the dark auditorium. Then, the footage bursts into view. We...
Oakland’s Only Nigerian Restaurant Was Set to Close, Until Community Rallied Behind Miliki
Enny Aregbe is very thankful. Dressed in a bright green Nigerian “up and down” outfit, with a lime-green manicure to match, Miliki’s...
Berkeley Looks to Tackle Gender Wage Gap, End Pay Discrimination Against Women
In a city where women earn only 71 cents for every dollar earned by men, Berkeley hopes to close the gender wage gap with...
Berkeley To Consider Banning Plastic Straws
Berkeley residents already paying a little more for their soda-taxed beverages may soon have to enjoy their drinks without the aid of an environmental...
