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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The pilgrimage purifies. It counts sacrifice in footsteps and heat stroke—a journey only for the traveler interested in overstanding how the humble get made. If one takes AC Transit and attempts the walk from the bus stop,...

I have met James Freebury only twice. And both times after his accident. Our relationship was carried out over correspondence. My first visit was with Josh Windmiller, who introduced us. We went to pantomime for Freebury a...