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Jul 30, 2014
Books Are Dead. Long Live Books.
On a warm Sunday night in April, sweaty poetry lovers sat shoulder-to-shoulder on the carpeted floor of a community space in downtown Oakland. The...
May 29, 2014
Sustained Tones
Drone music isn't the sound emitted by unmanned aerial vehicles. It's not the buzz of male honeybees as they vie to fertilize the queen...
Apr 2, 2014
Where Films Become Performance
On a recent Wednesday night in West Oakland, film lovers braved torrential rain to crowd inside a hundred-year-old industrial warehouse, where a screening of a...
Feb 26, 2014
Bring the Noise
From the outside, the sun-bleached white building in Oakland's Lower Bottoms neighborhood doesn't look like much. But venture inside and you'll wonder if you've...
Feb 19, 2014
A Guide to Navigating Noise Pop 2014
It's hard to believe that Noise Pop is now in its 22nd year. And while the music fest has grown substantially from its Bottom...
Jan 27, 2014
Review: Eyehategod at the Oakland Metro, 1/24
Demon-conjuring screeches? Check. Legendary New Orleans sludge? Check. Lost platform clog in the mosh pit? Check. Not one, not two, but six doom metal...