Playwright/performer Jacob Ming-Trent's ‘How Shakespeare Saved My Life’ rocks the Rep.

To close out the 2025 restaurant roundup, here are the final five. 5: Mon Superette Sometimes when I recommend a restaurant to someone I know, they may report back to me with a different or less ...

While the Probation Department is choosing to detain only the highest-risk offenders, budget pressures in Oakland are preventing the city’s juvenile offenders — who make up half the population of ...

Hayward is in the early stages of a proposal to begin looking at the feasibility of annexing nearby unincorporated Cherryland and its roughly 15,000 residents, according to sources. The plan is likely ...

For forty years, the Bay Area Consortium for Quality Health Care, a private nonprofit, has provided medical services to low-income and uninsured people at sites in Oakland and Berkeley. With public ...

The Exotic Erotic Ball may be known for having “nothing to hide,” but its producers get a little cagey when the talk turns to their event’s history. For the past three years, the venerable affair has ...

The first time Alan Lucchesi ever heard the sound of a stray bullet was in 2002, when one came whizzing up the street about five feet from his head. It was sometime in the middle of the night, and ...

There’s been less talk about and focus on “self-care” since everyone emerged back into the busy world post-pandemic. But it’s worth considering that self-care is even more important now, as people ...

I got kicked out of a public, federal immigration court hearing yesterday because I’m a newspaper reporter. And it wasn’t the judge who wanted me to leave. It was the Immigration and Customs ...

Andrés Miguel Cervantes said the title of his new album, Songs For The Séance, references his process as a songwriter. “It has to do with the concept of getting in touch with the spirits of the past..

This time around, Sir Dyno’s deal was with the government — and not the devil. David Rocha, also known as the gangsta rapper “Sir Dyno,” who faced life in prison for his alleged connection to the ...

I am a heterosexual male in my twenties, and I need some help putting a label on my kink/fetish. I usually don’t care much for labels in any aspect of life, but I’m hoping that knowing what to call ...