Morrie Turner’s Rainbow Coalition
The Late Morrie Turner’s Wee Pals cartoons were ahead of their time.
Read MorePosted by Rachel Trachten | Nov 1, 2014 | Feature |
The Late Morrie Turner’s Wee Pals cartoons were ahead of their time.
Read MorePosted by Rachel Trachten | Jun 1, 2014 | Feature |
I sit on my mat and stare at the wall as the rest of my yoga class chants om. “Enjoy the sound and...
Read MorePosted by Rachel Trachten | Jun 1, 2014 | Feature |
Bay area writers offer different takes on a writing theme for The Monthly’s summer essay contest.
Read MorePosted by Rachel Trachten | Aug 1, 2013 | Feature |
Maybe there is such a thing as free legal advice. Held in Oakland and Berkeley at places like the Crossroads Cafe and the Hub, the Legal Cafe—which dishes up sage advice for those who want to collaborate and innovate—offers free legal services to community members looking to form worker cooperatives and urban farms.
Read MorePosted by Rachel Trachten | Mar 1, 2012 | Feature |
Want to swap a haircut for a new website? Teach your neighbors how to make jam and get your leaky sink fixed in return? With money tight—and an eye toward saving the planet—people are getting creative about sharing their stuff and their skills, and finding new friends in the bargain.
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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 Rachel Trachten | 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.