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Mar 19, 2024
Betty Reid Soskin, the Musical
Betty Reid Soskin, 102, has never subscribed to the narrative that women have shelf lives. She’s spent her whole life defying that while constantly reinventing herself. As the owner of Reid Records, one of California’s first Black-owned...
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Mar 19, 2024
New Components in Housing Equation
When Bishop George Matthews of Oakland’s Genesis Worship Center talks about the 17 new units of transitional housing on church property, and the rehabbed house across the street now providing room for five more formerly incarcerated people,...
Mar 26, 2024
Calendar Picks: Week of Mar. 28-Apr. 3
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THE CHARLIE HUNTER & SCOTT AMENDOLA DUO
Musical sparring partners for three decades, Berkeley-reared and North Carolina-based guitar wizard Charlie Hunter and Berkeley drummer Scott Amendola regrouped for their latest groove-centric musical dialogue. The show is sold out,...
Mar 19, 2024
Just when it seems that San Francisco’s dope, sex and rock ’n’ roll scene in the 1960s has been covered from every conceivable angle, along comes...
Mar 19, 2024
In Frederick Wiseman’s 44th documentary, Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros, no omniscient narrator appears on screen or via voiceover to introduce the characters. The four-hour film (!)...