AltWeeklies Wire
The Trouble with Tabletsnew

Five years ago, it looked like the Internet would be print media's biggest threat. Turns out, that was only the beginning.
East Bay Express |
Ellen Cushing |
03-26-2012 |
Tech
ChuCha Santamaria Fevernew

Intelligent dance music for the Caribbean diaspora.
East Bay Express |
Ellen Cushing |
03-04-2012 |
Reviews
Worst Slow Jamsnew

Our staff picks the best music to kill a mood.
East Bay Express |
Kathleen Richards, Ellen Cushing, Rachel Swan and Will Butler |
02-08-2012 |
Sex
Tags: Songs To Kill the mood
Traveling Bands Do Not Crossnew

How music industry rules are blocking artists from playing in Oakland.
East Bay Express |
Ellen Cushing and Rachel Swan |
01-18-2012 |
Music
Tags: Live Music in Oakland
Trashednew

At UC Berkeley, recyclables end up in the landfill, outdoor plazas are drowning in litter, and gardeners spend their days collecting garbage. Welcome to the world's greenest university.
East Bay Express |
Ellen Cushing |
12-14-2011 |
Environment
Alternative, Indeednew

The East Bay Alternative Press Book Fair is a celebration of DIY culture and a substitute for standard holiday shopping.
East Bay Express |
Ellen Cushing |
12-11-2011 |
Books
Trails and Ways and the End of the Worldnew

The Oakland pop quartet is simultaneously temporal and forward-thinking.
East Bay Express |
Ellen Cushing |
11-28-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Drink and Get Merrynew

Holiday beverages needn't be predictable.
East Bay Express |
Ellen Cushing |
11-23-2011 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Holiday Cocktail Recipes
Sarah Schulman's Future Perfectnew

In The Mere Future, the New York author emerges as a unique voice in speculative fiction.
East Bay Express |
Ellen Cushing |
11-14-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Whole World Is Watchingnew

Last week's raid in Oakland may been the best thing that could have happened to the Occupy Movement.
East Bay Express |
Ellen Cushing |
11-02-2011 |
#OCCUPY
Marching, Dancing, and Lots of Tear Gasnew

What went down last night at the Occupy Oakland protest.
East Bay Express |
Ellen Cushing and Rachel Swan |
10-26-2011 |
#OCCUPY
Girls Will Be Girlsnew

Oakland's Religious Girls make gorgeous, noise-y, experimental pop. Just don't compare them to Animal Collective.
East Bay Express |
Ellen Cushing |
10-20-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Reading in the Slow Lane at University Press Booksnew

With Slow Reading Dinners, the Berkeley bookstore applies tenets of the slow-food movement to books.
East Bay Express |
Ellen Cushing |
10-17-2011 |
Books
Zola Jesus Releases Conatusnew

If nothing else, Conatus is music to make out to: languid, moody, and slightly baroque; fraught with combustible, adolescent longing and full of driving builds and drum-machine heartbeats. So yes, suffice it to say that on her third full-length, Zola Jesus, née Nika Danilova, doesn't veer far from the dark, dramatic goth-pop template that's carried her thus far.
East Bay Express |
Ellen Cushing |
10-06-2011 |
Reviews