3/26/26
A Feather and a Fork Book Launch, Intertribal Friendship House, Last Tuesday
3/24/26
What happens when we say, “When it finally happens...”
3/18/26
Wallace Shawn's caustic monologue about capitalism and complicity gets an ingenious staging at Clio's Books.
3/16/26
Berkeley Copwatch Flock Bike Tour, South Berkeley / North Oakland, Sunday
3/13/26
The fast-talking commentator was once everywhere: TV, radio, the internet. Then he was hardly anywhere at all. Then he was almost dead.
3/7/26
Chris Thile shocks and awes in Berkeley as a new war dawns in Iran.
3/5/26
Searching for the East Bay in the Epstein files so you don't have to.
3/2/26
Language, poet, ’68, tank top, Negra Modelo.
2/20/26
The vibes at “The Tallest Dwarf,” Hipline, January 31st
2/16/26
More books should be like Frank T. Marquardt's “Hop Fight,” and, swear to god, we'd say that even if he weren't a paying member of this site.
2/14/26
Cruising for a connection.
2/11/26
David Foster Wallace's magnum opus turns thirty.
2/9/26
Things are heating up at ORB as our orbit narrows towards what we’re calling our launch, in a few weeks–the Six Senses of…
2/5/26
In the midst of a battle against a dying industry, a Kentucky judge said Oakland owes hundreds of millions of dollars to a bankrupt corporation that exists only on paper. What do cities owe to whom as they try to extricate themselves from fossil capital?
2/4/26
A word from East Bay Booksellers.
2/2/26
On the Waterfront: Art at Work at Tamarack on January 24
1/28/26
On Ryan Coogler's sins and the kinds of performances that attract vampires.
1/26/26
Noir City Film Festival, Grand Lake Theater, later than I'd like on Jan 20
1/23/26
Otracami/Maria BC/Slake, Oakland Secret, 1/18/26
1/21/26
Vigil for Renee Good, Fruitvale, a couple weeks ago
1/11/26
Makibaka, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (in the west bay), this past weekend
1/7/26
New Years Poetry, Bathers Library, January 3rd
1/1/26
"Re-Animation," New Year’s Eve, Fruitvale warehouse
12/27/25
Solitude together, Christmas Day, Lake Merritt
12/18/25
How do you really know this place?
12/17/25
Flock Deliberations, Oakland City Council Meeting, Yesterday
12/11/25
I scraped the vibes on BART for the current tech marketplace in paranoia, and lived to tell you what I saw
12/6/25
East Bay Print Sale, Max’s Garage Press, Thursday
11/24/25
Faye Webster, The Paramount, a couple weeks ago
11/17/25
Not much.
11/13/25
Date Night, Coast Guard Island, Before 9:30
11/5/25
We're glad you asked!
11/5/25
Tarantula mating season, Mt. Diablo, a week before Halloween
11/3/25
Transit Fundraiser, Cellarmaker, two weekends ago
10/31/25
Ladybugs, Stream Trail, Sunday
10/30/25
Works in Progress, Local Economy, a couple weeks ago
10/27/25
Australian train ride, Oakland Zoo, Sunday
10/27/25
Gabriela Sepúlveda, OMCA Friday Night, Friday Night
10/24/25
Excerpted from We Had it Coming, coming soon from OR Books. Read ORB's interview with Luke.
I started watching the Game Show Network…
10/24/25
ORB chats with Luke O’Neil about his new book and the death drive and “the most uncanny country in creation,” which is California.
10/24/25
NoKings Groupchat, East Bay, Friday
10/22/25
A Tale of Two Murals on Telegraph Avenue, Aaron Cometbus's “The Loneliness of the Electric Menorah,” and Praising the Emptiness
10/16/25
Golden Sardine at Tallboy, Temescal, Sunday
10/16/25
A review of matter out of place, at Huchiun Park in Emeryville.
10/15/25
A bookseller recommends a novel about suicide.
10/13/25
Food-is-medicine Farm Bill talk, Clio's Books, a couple mondays ago
10/10/25
IPOs and Appetizers, SoMa, Thursday Night
10/9/25
Outsider Access, Jackson Square, Wednesday Night
10/8/25
Better Humans for Creative Tech, SoMa, Tuesday Night
10/7/25
Social Networking with Zingroll, Marina Theater, Monday Night
Oakland Syllabus
Most of us at ORB have this question in common: how do you really know this place? Can you? Enter: the Oakland Review of Books syllabus.