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A photo/audio slide show of Oakland’s 2014 Eat Real festival.
Beloved Rockridge bookstore Diesel turns 25 this week. It celebrates its past and looks to the future.
Young artists, including rapper Alexis Johnson, create a music video warning fellow youth about the health dangers of fast food.
This summer the Oakland City Council passed an ordinance lifting a citywide ban on pinball.
The August 24 earthquake reminded Oakland residents to prepare for the next one.
The son of Cambodian immigrants, Mao is a former foster child who brings a unique life journey and first-hand perspective to his advocacy on behalf of foster youth and the poor.
The artist wears black latex gloves and dips a needle into ink. She then draws blue waves around a colorless outline of the Buddha, carefully wiping excess ink off of her living canvas. The mechanical hum of the mechanized needle doesn’t interfere with the interaction between tattoo artist, Melissa Taylor of Oakland’s Sacred Tattoo, and her client, the recipient of a large back piece. “Tattoos can be symbolic, they can be a tribute or a memorial, ” Taylor said. “It…
Oakland-based nonprofit Today’s Future Sound teaches music production to students in K-12 schools around the bay and beyond.
Compound Gallery’s Art in a Box subscription service is transforming the way people collect art by showcasing studio artists’ work in 11” x 17” x 3” boxes.