The Black Panthers Are Back
Leader Bobby Seale and other activists have a few things to say about the latest documentary.
Read MorePosted by DeWitt Cheng | Oct 1, 2015 | Culture |
Leader Bobby Seale and other activists have a few things to say about the latest documentary.
Read MorePosted by DeWitt Cheng | Apr 1, 2015 | Culture |
The Oakland art scene grows—and grows up.
Read MorePosted by DeWitt Cheng | Oct 1, 2014 | Culture |
Envisioning Human Rights, an exhibition of 39 striking photos over 40 years from eminent photographers, comes to Boalt Hall.
Read MorePosted by DeWitt Cheng | May 1, 2012 | Feature |
Imagine a beautifully painted, gingerbready Victorian home—on wheels, tooling down the freeway, with flames shooting out the top. That’s the Steampunk aesthetic in a nutshell—a mash-up of the technology and aesthetics of Jules Verne’s era and 21st-century ideas. From Steamy events like Burning Man and the annual Edwardian Ball in San Francisco to trends in clothing and interior design, the youth-driven movement is making its dramatic presence known.
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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.
by DeWitt Cheng | Feature |
by DeWitt Cheng | Feature |
by The Monthly Staff | Sep 22, 2021 | Faces of the East Bay, Family Care
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.
by Pam Valois | Jul 29, 2021 | Architecture, Faces of the East Bay, History
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...
by Nana Twumasi | Jun 1, 2019 | Faces of the East Bay, Retail
Ray Darten means for its color clothing to be worn.
by Lisa Fernandez | Apr 1, 2019 | Faces of the East Bay, Parenting
A Cal psychologist has a simple prescription for race relations.