December’s salon was their fifth together and the first to debut the official Free*Party name of their movement. The name ...

Sometimes, Lee Streitz doesn’t know where his photographs will end up. Usually, he shares his selects with the bands he shoots and they pass along the merch, album covers and promotional ...

There’s an old adage about gifting that long predates Amazon and free shipping and Instagram targeting: It’s the thought that counts. The notion conjures up images of painstakingly handmade ...

Uyen Dang, her husband Able Hernandez and her mother Nghi Nguyen all share cooking duties at Me Va Con, their new Vietnamese restaurant on Telegraph Avenue. In fact, everyone who works there is ...

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These days, nail art has no limits. In Alice Kincade’s experience, anyway. The Oakland-based nail artist began her work in her dorm room at UCLA in 2019 while recovering from a car accident.

WINNING PAIR Tim Bluhm and Greg Loiacono front the group and write the songs that make their albums so compelling. The Mother Hips have played their unique blend of music—a freewheeling mixture ...

ILLEGAL BUSINESS Prices of weed have plummeted lately, but that doesn’t mean the differential between legal and illicit is any less stark. When legalization proponents sold voters on Prop.

STARTER The tomato and melon salad. The fresh burrata, lemon cucumber, cilantro and toasted sunflower-seed gremolata weren’t engaged in open conflict, but neither were they speaking to each other.

WIT AND WISDOM From the pages of ‘Fuzz’ arise an endlessly diverse and rich carpet of the cultures that underpin science. Centered in Roach’s vise-like command of tone, broadly cast net of ...

TOWN-PROOFING Sadly for urban foresters, Oakland won’t likely see any funding from Newsom’s billion-dollar fire-prevention pledge. Trees provide shade during heat waves, sequester CO2, filter ...

COMFORT If you’re having a particularly stressful or dispiriting day, Lorena Menjivar’s grilled pupusas are the perfect remedy. Every restaurant is home to some form of comfort food.