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Local puzzlers revitalize social gatherings
Five hundred pieces. A tableful of passionate puzzlers. And a race against the clock.
The fun, cooperative, yet competitive hobby of jigsaw puzzling is flourishing in the East Bay, courtesy of Assemble Puzzlery. A little more than a...
Oakland budget reduces police overtime after Measure E fails
Oakland’s newly approved midcycle budget reduces police overtime and patrol funding after voters rejected Measure E, a parcel tax city leaders said would have helped close the budget deficit.
The roughly $4 billion budget, approved June 12 in...
Mannequin Pussy brings punk catharsis to Mosswood Meltdown
Mannequin Pussy is one of the buzziest bands of the past couple of years, largely on the strength of its current album, I Got Heaven, one of 2024’s best albums. The band played so many shows to...
Frankie and the Witch Fingers bring synth-fueled psych-punk to Oakland
On July 23, 2024, Frankie and the Witch Fingers took a sunny Seattle afternoon and turned it into a broiling mess of psychedelic synth lines, fierce guitar riffs, throbbing bass and pummeled drums. Sweaty bodies bounced off...
East Bay volunteers transform discarded Chromebooks into community resources
In 2023, John Janosko and other members of the Wood Street Commons encampment lost the land they were living on and, with it, the majority of their belongings.
West Oakland’s Wood Street Commons was once the largest homeless...
Fruitvale’s taco trucks keep tradition rolling
Along the street-like canals of the ancient Aztec city Tenochtitlan—modern day Mexico City—vendors routinely sold various meats, stews and even chili sauces that Spanish ethnographer Franciscan Friar Bernardino de Sahagún described as “hot, very hot, very, very...
Resistance.ai: Putting a nonviolence advisor in every person’s pocket
It is, perhaps, the third most important book in human history. And yet it remains perfectly obscure. The drab cover doesn’t help. Clothed in a fatigues-esque olive green, the book resembles an army officer’s field manual. Make...
