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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.

Overburdened with air pollution, East Oakland residents and activists thought they had blocked a crematorium from opening in 2012. But it quietly began operations a few months ago. Angela Scott ...

When one bar closes, another bar opens. Isn’t that how the saying goes? After closing downtown Oakland’s Radio Bar, owners Alfredo Botello, Trevor Latham and Tim Tolle hired Jennifer Seidman ...

In the latest exhibition at Betti Ono Gallery, the local artist personalizes the futuristic mythology and folklore of the African diaspora. In the painting “Zyla” from Paul Lewin’s newest ...

The story of three brothers evicted from their family home show the difficulties this population faces in the East Bay. The Patrick brothers lived in their family home on Berkeley’s Evelyn ...

After six months and three hundred leads, not only do a pair of sheriff's detectives not know who killed a teenage girl in Castro Valley -- they still have no idea who she was. A grim expression ...

Staffed by an impressive roster of talking heads, this meticulously researched profile/exposé aims to deflate Jobs' carefully cultivated public image. When it comes to the late Steve Jobs and his ...

Meredith Edgar was born in San Francisco but grew up in the South Bay, in a musical home. “My parents listened to a lot of different artists—rock, folk, country, blues,” Edgar says.

DIVA DRAMA Soprano Shawnette Sulker as Poppea scandalizes in WEO’s ‘The Coronation of Poppea.’ Photo courtesy of West Edge Opera. Not often can an opera season be touted that way—unless it ...

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BRING HOME THE BACON Restaurateur Hoyul Steven Choi’s signature Millionaire’s Bacon, at Rockridge’s Kitchen Story, will satisfy the foodies in the family. Instead of stressing to uncork ...