The East Bay’s Premier Magazine of Culture & Commerce
The East Bay’s Premier Magazine of Culture & Commerce
Back when we were young, homework was like broccoli—kids despised it but had to eat it anyway because it was good for them. Today, though, some expert educators are saying that homework isn’t even healthy. As kids trudge back to the classroom this month, we take a look at the roiling controversy between homework traditionalists and East Bay residents who think kids’ after-school hours are better spent in other ways.
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Issues—A pocketsize store on Piedmont Ave. sells an eclectic mix of traditional and alternative periodicals, ’zines, T-shirts and letterpress cards. By Susan Sanford
Jeanomix is a new shop on Bay Street in Emeryville that seeks to fit every woman and man to just the right pair of jeans (with actual salespeople who know what will work on your body.) By Andrea Lampros
Oakland’s Oliveto Café, downstairs from the restaurant, has a new look and a new kitchen that can turn out even more savory dishes. By Sarah Weld
Pleasanton’s Sola-Brite is the Bay Area’s biggest distributor of the Solatube, an energy-saving device that lets natural light into your rooms. By Sarah Weld
Westbrae Nursery, a small nursery under new brother-sister ownership, specializes in offering color succulents and drought-resistant plants with personal attention. By Andrea Lampros
Former KTVU anchor Leslie Griffith and other local media experts talk about why broadcast television—both local and national—is on the downslide. Griffith says the hard-hitting journalism she practiced while at KTVU is not the norm nationwide and attributes much of the sorry state of TV news to viewer complacency and corporations running the TV news biz.
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Marc Korchin had a green epiphany, fell in love with his electric car and decided to share the love. His Green Motors on San Pablo Avenue sells low-speed electric cars that re-charge by plugging into an ordinary outlet and don’t burn any carbon. And they’re cute!
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Two Burning Man–veterans think outside the box about business, coffee and art as they launch the Awaken Café in downtown Oakland.
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Hidden in the East Bay hills, the Carmelite nuns of Kensington live at the most secluded monastery in the United States.
The pandemic created the urgency for many East Bay families to set up an estate plan. Richmond Estate Planning Attorney, Sara Diamond answers questions about wills, trusts, powers of attorney and advance health care directives.
Jacomena van Huizen Maybeck’s life began in 1901 on a Javanese sugar plantation and ended ninety-five years later in her house in the Berkeley hills. I met her in 1977, as my boyfriend and I followed the rumors of a unique cottage for rent. From the time of our first...
Ray Darten means for its color clothing to be worn.
A Cal psychologist has a simple prescription for race relations.