Taxation without representation is alive and well in this unincorporated community. Some residents are hoping to change that, but the odds are stacked against them. While manning a table for the ...

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Growth Mindset Cultivating and connecting at Planting Justice Recommendations from experts in multiple fields—medicine, science, academia, lifestyle, faith—consistently place social ...

In a post-Mast Brothers world, East Bay bean-to-bar chocolate makers win converts, one bittersweet bar at a time. One of last year’s biggest food scandals centered on a pair of bearded brothers ...

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 ...

THURSDAY THEATER DRUM TAO Drum Tao is a mixture of traditional taiko drumming and high drama performed by 40 performers with acrobatic pedigree. The drums, which come in every size, emanate ...

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 ...

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 ...

Twice in three years, foreign-born women have been killed by apparent strangers in the Centerville District. Some residents see hate. Alia Ansari always wore her traditional Muslim headscarf in ...

Single-cup brewing is the hottest and most lucrative sector of the coffee market nationwide, but it's also producing massive amounts of trash. In June, Peet’s Coffee & Tea dispatched a truck ...

Fecal transplants are being heralded as a simple cure for a dangerous and growing intestinal infection. But their future is uncertain. The answer to her woes, it turns out, was feces. Oakland ...

If pot is truly medicine, shouldn't it be standardized? Analytical Labs wants to test the potency and safety of Cali cannabis. At downtown Oakland’s Harborside Health Center, the hairy green ...