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Social Eyes: Week of June 18-24
This week's calendar picks feature Trillian Welch, "The Fre," Emilio Solla & Antonio Lizana, A Band of Orcs, Persekutor, Eli Maliwan’s Saxreligious Quintet, Guttermouth, Teresa Trull & Barbara Higbie, Make Music Day Berkeley, and Israel Vibration.
Crystal Wahpepah’s first cookbook celebrates Native cuisine
When Crystal Wahpepah opened Wahpepah’s Kitchen five years ago, Native food spaces were, even that recently, still hard to find. When she was a child, Wahpepah told me, she never saw or set foot inside a Native...
Free Will Astrology: Week of June 17
Nomadic mathematicians, monarch butterflies, earthquakes, zebra finches, concert hall architects and more in this week's horoscopes!
Mildred Howard explores history through art
The work of artist Mildred Howard can be summed up in one admittedly reductive word: astonishing. Amazement is abundant in the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA)’s new exhibition, “Mildred Howard: Poetics of Memory.” Presenting the first major...
On her terms
The Oakland-raised singer and songwriter isn’t in a rush to explain herself, either. Her debut album, Yellow House, released June 5, feels less like a grand introduction and more like someone letting one read pages from a...
Long live Lady Day
When Stella Heath walks on stage to tell the story of Billie Holiday, she wears a gardenia in her hair, an homage to Holiday’s familiar appearance. Backed by her 10-piece band, she presents an evening of songs...
The Old Furiosity Shop: ‘The Furious,’ reviewed
In the first five minutes of the new Hong Kong/China action pic The Furious, we’re reminded of one of the time-tested truths of the exploitation subgenre: In real life, a character cannot get repeatedly slammed in the...
