The East Bay’s Premier Magazine of Culture & Commerce
The East Bay’s Premier Magazine of Culture & Commerce
Fania Davis, the sister of famed Black Panther Angela Davis, lived through some of the most turbulent times in our nation’s history. Today, the Oakland resident has found inner peace—and a new passion for helping local youth find nonviolent solutions to conflict.
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At 68, East Bay activist Barbara Lubin is still in the game, fighting to bring food, medical supplies, and more to children and families in war-torn zones through her nonprofit Middle East Children’s Alliance. For decades, she’s also been raising heck at home, scrapping to save Ozzie’s beloved soda fountain in the Elmwood, pressing Berkeley public schools to admit her special needs son, and taking life lessons from rebel poet Allen Ginsberg.
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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.