The East Bay’s Premier Magazine of Culture & Commerce
The East Bay’s Premier Magazine of Culture & Commerce
When Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse in 1971, East Bay chefs launched a focus on creative food trends that persists today. At this winter’s Fancy Food Show and Good Food Awards in San Francisco, local culinary talents showed up with everything from broccoli-cilantro tea, goat cheese, and chocolate to sprouted quinoa, salumi, and rum. Our Nosh Box connoisseur, David Schwoegler, gives readers a peek into this cutting-edge food world.
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Our intrepid reporter, a veteran sailor, brings us a close-up view of the world-class action last month in the Bay.
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With just a few details of a controversial seismic upgrade left to complete, U.C.’s Memorial Stadium will be back in business for the Cal football team’s season opener against the University of Nevada on Saturday, Sept. 1. Go Bears!
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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.