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Aug 14, 2019
Making Whatever’s in Front of Her Interesting
It's no slam to say that Jenny Odell's art is like a colossal yawn. Stretching the mandible of imagination wide, the Oakland-based artist's multi-disciplinary projects and new, well-received book, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy,...
Aug 14, 2019
Best, Most Prolific Podcaster
As Game Of Thrones was in it final season, Vulture did a roundup of the 10 best GOT podcasts. Two of them were co-hosted by Oakland writer and podcaster Joanna Robinson. She even had a third one...
Aug 14, 2019
Champion of Richmond Education
Retired teacher Mike Peritz has been a local educator for more than 50 years, teaching a range of subjects with credentials for English Language Arts, Social Sciences, special education, and food service/hospitality training. Since retiring in 2001,...
Aug 14, 2019
Breaking Ground on the State of Human Communications
Anyone who's ever gotten into a political argument online may recall thinking to themselves that their opponent is just stupider than them. Behavioral scientist Juliana Schroeder's research tells her that this is a normal reaction to such...
Aug 14, 2019
Believer in Food as a Catalyst for Change
Food entrepreneurship runs in chef Rashad Armstead's blood.
His great-grandmother, Sarah Rawls, opened up shop in West Oakland selling egg sandwiches made on a hot plate. From there, her restaurant empire grew to several full-service restaurants throughout the...
Aug 14, 2019
Best Street Clown
Alameda's own Kenny The Clown will do anything to make people smile. One yelper described meeting him outside of a bar and getting an earful of naked beach volleyball jokes, before Kenny pulled out a banana, with...
Aug 14, 2019
Volunteer Police Watchdog
By day, Regina Jackson is CEO of the East Oakland Youth Development Center, a 41-year-old nonprofit that provides enrichment programs for more than 2,000 youth and adults. But that's not all. By evening — and weekends, and probably...
