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Tuesday, May 21st, 2013

Oakulture: Malcolm X Jazz Festival, Fist Up returns for its fourth year, Piper plays “Cops and Robbers”

According to the Weather Channel, it was 70 degrees in Oakland this past Saturday. Yet to the thousands who attended the Malcolm X Jazz Festival, the temperature seemed much hotter. This was ice cream weather, cold beer weather, spread-a-blanket-on-the-grass weather. A perfect day for chillaxing in the sun and touching base with community. The annual

Wednesday, April 24th, 2013

Oakulture: Celebrating EarthDay and 420, Kings of Kings turns 11, Alborosie gets irie

This week in Oakulture: a long-running reggae party celebrates its birthday, Earth Day comes to Oakland, and an Italian reggae star chants down Babylon.***Last Saturday was a good day for the Green movement. It happened to be...