Arts & Culture
Arts & Culture
Best Gallery for People Under 30
Almost as if from under the cloak of darkness, the underground has emerged in...
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Best Free Entertainment
What makes a city a city? That's a simple one. Live music in public...
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Best Way to Go Boating — and Support Youth...
How many times have you driven by Berkeley's Aquatic Park and longed to be...
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Best Hip-Hop Record Shop
Park Blvd. Records is the only record shop in Oakland with a bin-card for...
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Best Glass Pumpkins
If your idea of glass fruit and veg is that dusty bunch of grapes...
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Best Building Transformation
The two-story building on 23rd Avenue in the San Antonio neighborhood of East Oakland...
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Best Youth Performance Ensemble
The original Young Gifted and Black formed in 1981 in New York — four...
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Best Voter Guide for the Techno Set
They are glossy, brightly colored handbills on thick card-stock. The palette is almost gaudy:...
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Best Bar for a Sensory Overload
Supposedly, there's a story behind every crazy knickknack decorating the walls of Cafe Van...
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Best Tiny All-Ages Venue
By day, the Octopus Literary Salon is a bookstore-cafe and lunch haunt for the...
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Best Place to Do the Lindy Hop
Strap on your dancing shoes, it's time to go back to the 1920s. If...
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Best Art with a Cause
The NIAD Art Center in Richmond helps people with disabilities create and distribute art...
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Best Place to Relive Your ’80s Childhood
Many East Bay children of the '80s fondly remember Silverball Arcade, a dark space...
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Best Skate Crew
Unity, headquartered in a loft above E.M. Wolfman bookshop downtown, is a clubhouse, a...
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