28
May
Vibe Report Era
Gertrude Stein said it couldn’t be done, but our correspondents have been setting out to find out what’s
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Oakland Review of Books
26
May
Oakland Review of Books calendar of (not just) literary events, May 27 – June 1
The big news in town is the 11th annual Bay Area Book Festival, on in Berkeley all day Saturday 5/
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26
May
A Brick Building at Ballhalla, West Bay, Week One
For the first Valkyrie game, my daughter and I took BART to Powell St, then followed a pathway of little
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26
May
Transit and T-shirt weather at Womb House Books, Temescal, Saturday
The bay area has adapted to the cold during what easterners call summer, and, Saturday at the Transit Books Fundraiser,
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24
May
Album release show at Tiny Telephone, West Oakland, Friday evening
The building looked like every building in that neighborhood (red brick and blocky warehouse lines) but had kept its anonymity,
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24
May
Tambor at Friday Nights at OMCA, Friday evening
What do they know of the Friday Nights at OMCA who only their kids know? CLR James made Kipling’s
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23
May
Lamb at the Oakland Greek Festival, up by the Mormon temple last weekend
“Greece” radiates meaning: classical Athenian, Socratic, hemlock-laced meaning that overwrites the real place, thumped out like club music and yachts
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21
May
Babies and regulars at Daytrip Counter, Temescal sometime last week or so
I was initially skeptical when they added “Counter” to the revamped version of the restaurant I already knew and loved:
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20
May
Oakland Review of Books calendar of (not just) literary events, May 20–26
All this week, you can vote in The Lake Merritt Dog Contest for the cute, ugly, young, old, pampered, or
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19
May
"Your mother sang to me," at OMCA, Sunday, Oakland
After the movie was over, after the panel discussion had concluded and the director took a selfie, over his shoulder,
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