In late 2017, drummer Jason Willer (Jello Biafra’s Guantanamo School of Medicine, UK Subs) and bassist Matt Freeman (Operation Ivy, Rancid) started laying the foundation for what would become an ...

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.

Victor Arnautoff's mural about George Washington is squarely on the side of the oppressed. The notion that today's adolescents need protection from history or reality is deeply patronizing.

Adam Myatt is known as one half of Oakland electro-pop duo James & Evander. But now he's also known for his love of cats. Step inside Adam Myatt’s bottom-floor apartment in West Oakland, which ...

An ex-teacher is on trial for revealing the secrets of an alleged cult. And in what may be a precedent for free-speech rights, he won't have to reveal his identity. Very little is known about the ...

Tim Hon and Steve Ha bring a self-taught style and old-school graffiti sensibility into plain view on Oakland's streets. Tim Hon and Steve Ha met at Newark Memorial High School and began tagging ...

In her new book, the Oakland photographer visually recalls coming of age as a queer woman amid the silenced AIDS epidemic and pre-riot grrrl milieu. Sitting on a vine-covered bench in the backyard ...

The federal government attempted to paint a picture of a dangerous man seeking to join a terrorist organization in the Syrian warzone, but jurors were “hopelessly deadlocked.” Adam Shafi’s ...

The building, which had a couple-dozen people living in it at one time, will soon become a 476-unit, market-rate housing development. Mervyn’s former headquarters in Hayward was abandoned after ...

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 ...

When staff turnover is at an all-time high, Cheese Board, Arizmendi, and other East Bay collectives buck the trend. Denis Gomez, Megan Ledet, Delia Desmond, Mahasin Munir, and Luis Andrade live ...

OPD pressured victims and witnesses to change their statements, buried internal complaints, and delayed taking action against officers accused of criminal activity. Over the past year, multiple ...