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AI music tools challenge Bay Area musicians
High-quality artificial intelligence has spared no industry. In a creative space like music, these days generating a song only takes typing in a prompt.
But this magic and power comes with controversy. Using AI in music has created...
Bay Area workers juggle survival and opportunity
Small talk doesn’t have to be tedious for those who are curious about how people make a living in the Bay Area. There seem to be endless ways to make money here—and if someone asks someone what...
Jasmine Ross documents Black identity through ‘Beauty Plus’
At age 22, Oakland-based artist Jasmine Ross is the youngest award recipient ever in the Museum of the African Diaspora’s annual Emerging Artists Program. Honored in MoAD’s 10th cohort, Ross, along with Demetri Broxton, Dorian Reid and...
Tony Gemignani and the rise of world-class pizza in the Bay Area
For years, California suffered from a reputation as a pizza desert. Having grown up in an East Coast family with roots in Naples, I was keenly aware of the deficit when my parents moved us West.
“It was...
Life teems below the surface
People living near oceans or on islands often overlook the marine wildlife teaming below the sea’s surface. Marvelously, many scientists, explorers, environmentalists and fine art photographers dive deep and return with unforgettable images and stories of the...
From totally harsh to thriving marsh
Driving along Waterfront Road in Martinez, the landscape feels exactly like the industrial heart of the East Bay. Speeding cars are flanked by the towering steel drums of petrochemical refineries, the rumble of I-680 and massive oil...
The Back Room lives!
There was a time, in the not-so-distant past, when small, companionable clubs, which welcomed multiple genres of music, flourished. That time is no more. The Great Recession, and then the pandemic, did in some of the last...
