When Carolina Ixta was a kid, she’d go get haircuts with her mom and sister at a salon in Fruitvale, at 31st and International. Her mom’s highlights would take hours and the sisters would ge...
https://eastbayexpress.com/carolina-ixtas-debut-novel-rooted-in-oakland-realness/
Imagine walking up Richmond’s Macdonald Avenue, from the RYSE Center to the Richmond Museum of History & Culture, and seeing “asphalt art”—open studios and galleries, maybe even a live t...
https://eastbayexpress.com/richmond-renaissance-vision-ignited/
Setting out to resolve a puzzling question about why women over the age of 50 choose or are forced into lives of fear over flat-out fun and fulfillment, New York Times bestselling writer Carolin...
https://eastbayexpress.com/caroline-pauls-tough-broad-advises-adventurous-aging/
THURSDAY JAZZ THE CHARLIE HUNTER & SCOTT AMENDOLA DUO Musical sparring partners for three decades, Berkeley-reared and North Carolina-based guitar wizard Charlie Hunter and Berkeley drummer Scot...
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Toriano Gordon closed the Vegan Mob’s Oakland hub last September. Gordon refurbished the former Kwik Way with his brand’s distinctive color, a neon green that illuminates Lake Park Avenue da...
https://eastbayexpress.com/toriano-gordon-enters-new-phase-with-vegan-mob-cookbook/
ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the coming days, your hunger will be so inexhaustible that you may feel driven to devour extravagant amounts of food and drink. It’s possible you will gain 10 pou...
https://eastbayexpress.com/free-will-astrology-week-of-march-27/
Just when it seems that San Francisco’s dope, sex and rock ’n’ roll scene in the 1960s has been covered from every conceivable angle, along comes Marlo McKenzie and Jonathan Parker’s ent...
https://eastbayexpress.com/film-review-carol-doda-topless-at-the-condor/
NASA and private space exploration companies—listen up, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson and others—could learn a lot from Rhonda Benin. The East Bay-based jazz and blues vocalist rema...
THURSDAY ROCK INTERVALS & HAIL THE SUN No, this isn’t a single entity but two separate bands sharing the headline. Intervals is the wildly entertaining instrumental Canadian metal (Progressive...
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The songs Nicole Laby writes for her band, Frances8, deal with real-life situations in a literary manner that’s one step removed from the usual pop music approach. “I like to dig beneath the...