4/4/26
A collection of 13 Proximitivist installations TKTKTKT something from Benjamin about Aesthetics and Politics.
Archive
4/2/26
Where there's no trash island there.
4/1/26
A return to the lake’s original state would mean dismantling the city of Oakland itself. Do we want to see the monster?
3/31/26
Around the sun, around the bay, the day after the Spring Equinox
3/30/26
A not-too-short love letter to “a love letter to 1980s Oakland.”
3/26/26
A Feather and a Fork Book Launch, Intertribal Friendship House, Last Tuesday
What happens when we say, “When it finally happens...”
3/18/26
Wallace Shawn's caustic monologue about capitalism and complicity gets an ingenious staging at Clio's Books.
3/16/26
Berkeley Copwatch Flock Bike Tour, South Berkeley / North Oakland, Sunday
3/13/26
The fast-talking commentator was once everywhere: TV, radio, the internet. Then he was hardly anywhere at all. Then he was almost dead.
Chris Thile shocks and awes in Berkeley as a new war dawns in Iran.
3/5/26
Searching for the East Bay in the Epstein files so you don't have to.
3/2/26
Language, poet, ’68, tank top, Negra Modelo.
2/20/26
The vibes at “The Tallest Dwarf,” Hipline, January 31st
2/16/26
More books should be like Frank T. Marquardt's “Hop Fight,” and, swear to god, we'd say that even if he weren't a paying member of this site.
2/14/26
Cruising for a connection.
David Foster Wallace's magnum opus turns thirty.
2/9/26
Things are heating up at ORB as our orbit narrows towards what we’re calling our launch, in a few weeks–the Six Senses of…
fossil capital, oakland bankruptcy, coal, oakland army base, new york times, phil tagami, john siegel, Oakland Bulk & Oversized Terminal
2/5/26
In the midst of a battle against a dying industry, a Kentucky judge said Oakland owes hundreds of millions of dollars to a bankrupt corporation that exists only on paper. What do cities owe to whom as they try to extricate themselves from fossil capital?
2/4/26
A word from East Bay Booksellers.
2/2/26
On the Waterfront: Art at Work at Tamarack on January 24
1/28/26
On Ryan Coogler's sins and the kinds of performances that attract vampires.
1/26/26
Noir City Film Festival, Grand Lake Theater, later than I'd like on Jan 20
1/23/26
Otracami/Maria BC/Slake, Oakland Secret, 1/18/26
1/21/26
Vigil for Renee Good, Fruitvale, a couple weeks ago