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When several art forms, disciplines and cultural backgrounds blend, there comes reflection, innovation and imagination. James Gayles, an Oakland-based Emmy Award-winning artist and musician, is striving to draw out the aesthetic value hidden in the intersection between painting and literature through a collaborative book he’s titled Reflection. He juxtaposes his own watercolor paintings of iconic cultural and historic figures, such as Nelson Mandela, Miles Davis, Celia Cruz, Nina Simone and James Baldwin, with poems written by people he knows personally….
Vegan burgers and soul food and burritos (oy vey!) … This week, Oakland’s plant-based eaters add another nosh to the list. Sarah Kagan, 26, launched Kosher* vegan catering business, Sarah Sunshine, just in time for the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashana.* Rosh Hashana, which fell on September 24, 2014, celebrates the start of the Jewish new year, 5775. It is followed by ten days of atonement, which ends in one of the holiest days under Jewish tradition, Yom Kippur. Fish-free…
It’s not a motorcycle. It’s not a scooter. It’s not even an electric bicycle. It’s a bike with a motor on it, and it might just be the best way to get around Oakland.
The Piedmont Avenue Pumpkin Patch in Oakland features more than 15 types of pumpkins.
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.