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Nov 28, 2023
Who’s Calling? The DEA Wants to Know
Just over 10 years ago, reporting by The New York Times and ABC News revealed that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration had for several years been collecting billions of American phone records. The government was paying AT&T to...
Nov 28, 2023
Calendar Picks: Week of Nov. 30-Dec. 6
THURSDAY
ROCK
ATERCIOPELADOS
Aterciopelados is a beloved rock band from Colombia. Led by Andrea Echeverri and Héctor Buitrago, the group is known for its socially conscious ethos and innovative fusion of South and Central American musical traditions. With four Latin...
Nov 28, 2023
The Becoming of Mimi Tempestt
The best advice for reading mimi tempestt’s second book, the delicacy of embracing spirals, other than “do it,” is to remember to breathe. Now and then also pause, placing the Berkeley-based writer’s tornado of poetry aside to...
Nov 28, 2023
Free Will Astrology: Week of November 29
ARIES (March 21-April 19): As a child, I loved to go to a meadow and whirl around until I got so dizzy, I fell. As I lay on the ground, the earth and sky reeled madly, and...
Nov 22, 2023
Free Gainel Hamilton: Locked Down by State Conservatorship
Eighty-five-year-old Gainel Hamilton smiles ear-to-ear as her family files into her room in the locked section of San Miguel Villa, in Concord. When Hamilton’s son, Robin Andre Flippin, walks in with a bouquet of flowers and approaches...
Nov 22, 2023
Laurie Lewis Loves Trees
Laurie Lewis has played her post-Thanksgiving shows at Berkeley’s Freight & Salvage for the past 20 years. “I call them my concerts of gratitude,” she said, speaking from her Berkeley home. “I use the evening to explore...
Nov 22, 2023
New Indigenous Bars Nourish Health and Native Growers
There is a new snack in the Town. Indigenous restaurant and cultural hub Wahpepah’s Kitchen, in Fruitvale, now offers protein-packed Indigenous Bars, bringing the wisdom of native ingredients to the high-octane requirements of busy contemporary lifestyles.
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