When one bar closes, another bar opens. Isn’t that how the saying goes? After closing downtown Oakland’s Radio Bar, owners Alfredo Botello, Trevor Latham and Tim Tolle hired Jennifer Seidman ...

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THURSDAY JAZZ PERALTA, COYLE & WILEY The Sound Room is many things: comedy room, flamenco tablao, blues joint, cabaret. It also offers opportunities for the region’s most exciting young jazz ...

These days, nail art has no limits. In Alice Kincade’s experience, anyway. The Oakland-based nail artist began her work in her dorm room at UCLA in 2019 while recovering from a car accident.

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WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT? Everything, when we’re talking about the Bay Area. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Yes, the title of this year’s introduction to the East Bay Express ...

WAKE UP CALL ‘Occupy said the whole system is rotten,’ Levitin said. ‘A decade later nobody doubts that our whole system is broken and that all of them at the top are complicit.’ On Jan. 6 ...

WINNING PAIR Tim Bluhm and Greg Loiacono front the group and write the songs that make their albums so compelling. The Mother Hips have played their unique blend of music—a freewheeling mixture ...

STARTER The tomato and melon salad. The fresh burrata, lemon cucumber, cilantro and toasted sunflower-seed gremolata weren’t engaged in open conflict, but neither were they speaking to each other.

BUZZ KILL Burner distros may have diverted millions of pounds of weed from the legal market to illicit sellers. This development only makes a bad situation worse. We all tend to think of ...

TOWN-PROOFING Sadly for urban foresters, Oakland won’t likely see any funding from Newsom’s billion-dollar fire-prevention pledge. Trees provide shade during heat waves, sequester CO2, filter ...

It offers quesabirrias, dollar taco specials, free Tuesday night dancing, drag brunches, and is a gathering place for the LGTBQ community. Taqueria Morelia, often known as Talk of the Town thanks ...