Culture
Tina Liu founded Chinese Beyond Borders in 2013 to bring diversity to Burning Man which believes is underrepresented.
There aren’t any markets or restaurants, but there is the Pu Guang temple. And pigeons. Lots of pigeons.
Maliwop*, a longtime Oakland graffiti-writer, didn’t listen when his grandmother told him not to make graffiti. Now he is almost a decade into his illegal art career.
Muralist Desi Mundo teaches kids
at Unity High school how to sketch and write graffiti
Acta Non Verba celebrates Nine years of helping the youth in Oakland with a silent reading fundraiser.
Non-profit organization Playworks opened a new community space in downtown Oakland last week called RoShamBo.
Oakland residents gathered to contribute to the Global Day of Resistance for Rojava.
Amidst pounding basslines, Oaklanders gathered downtown last Friday on the streets below Pandora’s Oakland headquarters to celebrate SwayFest. The event was held to commemorate the new partnership between SiriusXM, a satellite radio company, and Pandora, an automated music streaming service, and it was an opportunity for Sway Calloway, a musician, journalist, and radio host, to come back to his hometown. The block party featured performances from Bay Area legends like percussionist and singer Sheila E. to rappers Mistah Fab, Kamaiyah and…
Over 1,100 people from 86 different countries took the oath to become United States citizens at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland on Wednesday. In a warm and thunderous atmosphere, with friends and family whistling and singing, California Assemblyman Rob Bonta (D-Oakland), the keynote speaker, said, “I am so grateful to welcome all of you, my fellow Americans. I am one of you. Look at me, I made it. To those of you who say you can’t, I say you can.” …