Terry Gross just released Huge Improvement, an album of tunes based around their improvised jams. The band is a trio—bass player Donny Newenhouse, guitarist Phil Manley and drummer Phil Becker ...

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Italian pop songs immediately establish the mood at Gusto Mio, a new focacceria in downtown Walnut Creek. The emotionalism of the music is briefly transportive. With each slice of pizza or ...

These days, nail art has no limits. In Alice Kincade’s experience, anyway. The Oakland-based nail artist began her work in her dorm room at UCLA in 2019 while recovering from a car accident.

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WINNING PAIR Tim Bluhm and Greg Loiacono front the group and write the songs that make their albums so compelling. The Mother Hips have played their unique blend of music—a freewheeling mixture ...

ILLEGAL BUSINESS Prices of weed have plummeted lately, but that doesn’t mean the differential between legal and illicit is any less stark. When legalization proponents sold voters on Prop.

WIT AND WISDOM From the pages of ‘Fuzz’ arise an endlessly diverse and rich carpet of the cultures that underpin science. Centered in Roach’s vise-like command of tone, broadly cast net of ...

TOWN-PROOFING Sadly for urban foresters, Oakland won’t likely see any funding from Newsom’s billion-dollar fire-prevention pledge. Trees provide shade during heat waves, sequester CO2, filter ...

It offers quesabirrias, dollar taco specials, free Tuesday night dancing, drag brunches, and is a gathering place for the LGTBQ community. Taqueria Morelia, often known as Talk of the Town thanks ...

Scientists believe global warming may explain why populations have collapsed. That suggests looming troubles for marine species that rely on the tiny fish. Tens of millions of silvery sardine ...

Leaked documents about the effort to sell a coal terminal to a reluctant city show how the government sausage gets made. Last year’s Oakland City Council election provided supporters of the ...