4/20/26
The league may be out of the glass closet, but fans are more obsessed than ever with cracking the sapphic code.
Archive
4/16/26
Thinking more about Temescal Pool, a place where you can think less.
4/15/26
In Ellen Huet’s “Empire of Orgasm,” growth is the real cult we meet along the way (and no one is immune to being touched by the spectacle).
4/14/26
Sax and Pole at Eli's Mile High Club, after fifty years of Oakland's sound, and more.
4/13/26
It was 2015. Something was shifting in the tech industry, and I felt it in the bedroom.
4/10/26
Theodore Gordon's “The Composer’s Black Box: Making Music in Cybernetic America,” unboxed.
4/9/26
How the Threshold Singers of the East Bay create soundscapes for the end of life.
4/8/26
A playlist.
4/6/26
The screeching moral panic over the sideshow hides what it really is: an event, shaped by cops and capital flight, where Oakland youth fight for a place to play.
4/4/26
A collection of 13 Proximitivist installations TKTKTKT something from Benjamin about Aesthetics and Politics.
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.”
3/30/26
See us, hear us, touch us, smell us, taste us, vibe with us!
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.