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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
Oakland Is Better Off Without Anthony Battsnew
The city's police chief talked a much better game than he played, and a recent scathing report may be the real reason for why he quit.
East Bay Express |
Robert Gammon |
10-19-2011 |
Policy Issues
What Henry Rollins Seesnew
The renaissance man adds "photojournalist" to his C.V.
East Bay Express |
Stefanie Kalem |
10-19-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
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IsAnyoneUp.com and the Porn Generationnew
How 25-year-old "life ruiner" Hunter Moore used revenge porn to get famous.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
10-19-2011 |
Tech
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
A Moral Stance in a Public Placenew
Wall Street occupiers deserve our support.
East Bay Express |
Jay Youngdahl |
10-17-2011 |
#OCCUPY
The Truth About Uncle Rickynew
How a Ugandan balladeer became a fast-growing -- and problematic -- Internet meme.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
10-17-2011 |
Music
Deadly Secretsnew
How California law shields a small cadre of Oakland police officers involved in violence.
East Bay Express |
Ali Winston |
10-13-2011 |
Crime & Justice
Blood, Sweat, and Video Camerasnew
Kenneth Thomas' new documentary focuses on three influential heavy music labels: Hydra Head, Neurot, and Constellation.
East Bay Express |
Kathleen Richards |
10-06-2011 |
Music
A Rather Regal Peter S. Beaglenew
The World Fantasy Lifetime Achiever and The Last Unicorn author settles into Oakland.
East Bay Express |
Stefanie Kalem |
10-06-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Zoe Boekbinder Releases Darling Specimensnew
Zoe Boekbinder's second solo album, Darling Specimens, is an intriguing mix of acoustic folk and electronic pop songs, from an Oakland-based musician who was once half of the theatrical folk act Vermillion Lies.
East Bay Express |
Stuart Thornton |
10-06-2011 |
Reviews
Elvis Presley's Young Man With the Big Beatnew
lvis Presley had been stirring up regional success for a year and half with his sides for Sun Records in Memphis when, on January 10, 1956, two days following his 21st birthday, RCA Victor Records took him into its Nashville studio where he cut a blues-imbued song titled "Heartbreak Hotel."
East Bay Express |
Lee Hildebrand |
10-06-2011 |
Reviews
Sour Bird of Youthnew
Russell Banks goes dark in Lost Memory of Skin.
East Bay Express |
Stefanie Kalem |
10-06-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
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
