The East Bay’s Premier Magazine of Culture & Commerce
The East Bay’s Premier Magazine of Culture & Commerce
Children and parents are heading back to school and back to after-school. How much activity is enough for your child and how much is going to send you over the edge? We look at after-school possibilities, including dance, gymnastics, music and more.
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Get the glow Young designers in Oakland’s Temescal District? You bet. Amy Cools has been exploring...
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Depot on the go The East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse—a godsend for teachers and artists who need...
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Pampered pets If you don’t have a baby to buy organic for, you can still buy organic for other...
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Today’s lingerie might still tease and titillate, but purveyors of underthings say stockings, slips, bras, panties and nighties are wardrobe foundations that have as much effect on the wearer as the beholder. Our writer sees the lingerie light.
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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.
A Cal psychologist has a simple prescription for race relations.
Experts say that when caring for an elderly parent who lives far away, the most important thing is to join a support group with people experiencing the same challenges.
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.
Oakland author Meredith Maran accused her father of the ultimate betrayal. Then she un-accused him. In this first-person essay, adapted from her new book, My Lie, she reveals how it all went down.