How do you #WearYourVoice? wearyourvoice March 5, 2015 Arts & Culture Editors Note: Every Thursday, Wear Your Voice Magazine will present an image that we feel captures Oakland fashion, energy & its people. We are Oakland. We are unique. We stand against each metropolitan...
5 Oakland spots to get your geek on Katie Schwarz March 5, 2015 Arts & Culture, Neighborhood Nerd culture is mainstream. The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones are two of the most popular shows on TV. Guardians of the Galaxy was the huge hit of summer following The Avengers from the year before, and...
The Oakland Neighborhood Project stephentexeira March 5, 2015 Arts & Culture, Neighborhood Oakland Neighborhood Project A photo project that gives people in Oakland's 146 neighborhoods a chance to tell the world about where they live. Clinton Neighborhood Warm, generous, and passionate,...
Launch event for Oakland Book Festival this Thursday, March 5th (Community Voices) C.J. Hirschfield March 3, 2015 Arts & Culture, Community Voices “Read. Debate. Celebrate.” That’s the credo of the first-ever Oakland Book Festival, a free, public event “dedicated to books, ideas and the pleasures of literacy” to be held May 31 at Oakland...
Steve Snider: Downtown Oakland as a venue Sophia Hussain March 3, 2015 Arts & Culture, Development, Neighborhood The guys behind the light and sound of some of Downtown Oakland’s most successful music and art venues of the early 2000’s are now setting the stage for growth in one of the core parts of Oakland–Uptown,...
Sprinkle Lab is quirky, but lucid Liza Veale February 27, 2015 Arts & Culture, Development, Neighborhood, OakTech, Video In the Queens D. Light music video for Love Pistol (below), the hip hop griot hunts nubile Adonises with a bow and arrow. She accepts worship from stone male statues in her chain link garden sanctuary and she...
Oakland-based band Phosphene ready for the tracks ahead Katie Schwarz February 26, 2015 Arts & Culture For many, this past Valentine’s day meant chocolates, candy, flowers, explaining why you don't like Valentine's day, drinking one's sorrows away, or all of the above. For the members of the Oakland-based...
How Do You #WearYourVoice? wearyourvoice February 26, 2015 Arts & Culture Editors Note: Every Thursday, Wear Your Voice Magazine will present an image that we feel captures Oakland fashion, energy & its people. We are Oakland. We are unique. We stand against each metropolitan...
The Oakland Neighborhood Project stephentexeira February 26, 2015 Arts & Culture, Community Voices, Neighborhood 1 Comment Oakland Neighborhood Project A photo project that gives people in Oakland's 146 neighborhoods a chance to tell the world about where they live. ©Stephen Texeira Photography LEONA HEIGHTS Ayannakai,...
8 shows to get you out this Friday night Katie Schwarz February 23, 2015 Arts & Culture There’s really never a night in Oakland where there isn’t good music around the city, but this Friday the 27th is especially fantastic. Not only is Noise Pop bringing two exceptional shows to town, both...
