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The East Bay Monthly is a general-interest regional magazine of culture and commerce, edited for upscale readers in the San Francisco Bay Area. The East Bay Monthly covers food, health, science, the environment, entertainment and the local people who are outstanding in these fields–all the topics that are interesting to the people who live in the diverse and dynamic East Bay. Published since 1970, The Monthly is the oldest independently owned East Bay publication.

Faces of the East Bay

In the Philanthropic Swim

In the Philanthropic Swim

Rockridge residents John Bliss and Kim Thompson may live far removed the gritty flats of East and West Oakland. But this philanthropic couple see themselves as one with the citizens of Oakland, particularly those who are struggling financially, and they’re leading a campaign to get their “financially blessed” peers to invest in the community like they have by funding city programs to teach kids how to swim.