Lief Sorbye is the lead singer, main songwriter and mandolin player of Tempest, the Bay Area-based Celtic band that’s developed a worldwide following in the past 35-plus years. Sorbye said he ...

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.

Victor Arnautoff's mural about George Washington is squarely on the side of the oppressed. The notion that today's adolescents need protection from history or reality is deeply patronizing.

Overburdened with air pollution, East Oakland residents and activists thought they had blocked a crematorium from opening in 2012. But it quietly began operations a few months ago. Angela Scott ...

WIT AND WISDOM From the pages of ‘Fuzz’ arise an endlessly diverse and rich carpet of the cultures that underpin science. Centered in Roach’s vise-like command of tone, broadly cast net of ...

Two Fremont cops shot into a moving vehicle in Hayward last year, killing Elena Mondragon. The DA's office ruled the shooting was justified and is now charging the driver with murder. Elena ...

Tim Hon and Steve Ha bring a self-taught style and old-school graffiti sensibility into plain view on Oakland's streets. Tim Hon and Steve Ha met at Newark Memorial High School and began tagging ...

The federal government attempted to paint a picture of a dangerous man seeking to join a terrorist organization in the Syrian warzone, but jurors were “hopelessly deadlocked.” Adam Shafi’s ...

The building, which had a couple-dozen people living in it at one time, will soon become a 476-unit, market-rate housing development. Mervyn’s former headquarters in Hayward was abandoned after ...

Staffed by an impressive roster of talking heads, this meticulously researched profile/exposé aims to deflate Jobs' carefully cultivated public image. When it comes to the late Steve Jobs and his ...

When staff turnover is at an all-time high, Cheese Board, Arizmendi, and other East Bay collectives buck the trend. Denis Gomez, Megan Ledet, Delia Desmond, Mahasin Munir, and Luis Andrade live ...

ESSENTIAL ‘Maybe art is not something you think about until it’s gone,’ Grujic says. ‘In everyday life, going out to eat or seeing a show; that definitely makes life livable.’ During an ...