Looking Back
12
Jun
Idle Diesel Fumes
East Bay Booksellers, a Wednesday
6 min read
12
Jun
"ICE melt in hell"
Fruitvale, Tuesday Night
3 min read
10
Jun
ICE CAN END, neither first nor last
The Mission, West Bay, Yesterday Evening
5 min read
05
Jun
Release party for "Unsolicited Drawings of Unsolicited Dick Pictures": An unsolicited report.
West Oakland, back in April.
2 min read
03
Jun
Oakland Review of Books calendar of (not just) literary events, June 3 – 9
Everyone’s doing so good: This at Bathers and the Berkeley Poetry Festival’s queer poetics workshop with Lourdes Figueroa
7 min read
03
Jun
"Polar bear mixed with a cat" at Sultry Sessions, Grand, Wednesday
Every chair and couch cushion is filled by the singles, couples, and probably some throuples that have come out for
3 min read
02
Jun
Review of a free book pile: Lawton Avenue, Upper Rockridge
Weeding out Nicholson Baker.
2 min read
30
May
Ballers and Corrugation at Prescott Market, West Oakland, Wednesday evening and Thursday morning
At 9:15 am, the vibes at Prescott market in West Oakland are "irritated." The handful of people
5 min read
28
May
Vibe Report Era
Gertrude Stein said it couldn’t be done, but our correspondents have been setting out to find out what’s
2 min read
27
May
Oakland Review of Books calendar of (not just) literary events, May 27 – June 1
The big news in town is the 11th annual Bay Area Book Festival, on in Berkeley all day Saturday 5/
9 min read
26
May
A Brick Building at Ballhalla, West Bay, Week One
For the first Valkyrie game, my daughter and I took BART to Powell St, then followed a pathway of little
4 min read
26
May
Transit and T-shirt weather at Womb House Books, Temescal, Saturday
The bay area has adapted to the cold during what easterners call summer, and, Saturday at the Transit Books Fundraiser,
5 min read
24
May
Album release show at Tiny Telephone, West Oakland, Friday evening
The building looked like every building in that neighborhood (red brick and blocky warehouse lines) but had kept its anonymity,
4 min read
24
May
Tambor at Friday Nights at OMCA, Friday evening
What do they know of the Friday Nights at OMCA who only their kids know? CLR James made Kipling’s
3 min read
23
May
Lamb at the Oakland Greek Festival, up by the Mormon temple last weekend
“Greece” radiates meaning: classical Athenian, Socratic, hemlock-laced meaning that overwrites the real place, thumped out like club music and yachts
3 min read