The East Bay’s Premier Magazine of Culture & Commerce
The East Bay’s Premier Magazine of Culture & Commerce
“Modern is not just what you live in, but how you live,” say the folks at Modern Home Tours, a nationwide firm for cutting-edge architecture, design, and lifestyle. Highlights from Modern Home’s fall tour of top-notch digs in Berkeley, Oakland, Moraga, and Lafayette are inspiration for remodelers, eye-candy for everyone.
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You don’t have to be a reality-TV hoarder to benefit from professional home organizing. With the right systems, shelving, or sage advice from an everything-in-its-place guru, any living space can become more comfortable and efficient.
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Quick, what’s your favorite building in the East Bay? Oft-cited answers: the grand old edifices of downtown Oakland; Berkeley’s Julia Morgans and Craftsman bungalows. But that’s not to say we don’t have our share of aesthetic atrocities. Arts critic Jeanne Storck ferrets out opinions from leading architecture critics and average (but vocal) Joes.
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Without a doubt, celebrations call for cake. But no need to break out the mixing bowl—scads of stellar local bakeries specialize in custom confections and classic standards for June weddings, graduation parties, special birthdays, and everything else on your celebratory agenda.
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Our quintet of culture critics recounts the past glories that underscore the vibrant local arts scene today.
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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.