AltWeeklies Wire
Food Trucks Prohibited, Says Oaklandnew
While cities around the country are embracing mobile food vendors, Oakland still treats most of them as scofflaws.
East Bay Express |
John Birdsall |
09-16-2011 |
Food+Drink
Tags: food trucks in oakland
Child's Play with Jim Coheenew
With The Swan, the 67-year-old debut novelist writes from the perspective of a child.
East Bay Express |
Ellen Cushing |
09-15-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Cookbook on a Missionnew
Anthony Myint and Karen Leibowitz help McSweeney's gain entree to your kitchen.
East Bay Express |
Stefanie Kalem |
09-08-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Forever Youngernew
Brontez Purnell grows up and rocks flawless.
East Bay Express |
Ellen Cushing |
09-08-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Amazon's Gambitnew
The online giant is hoping that its offer to create 7,000 jobs in California will convince legislators to delay the state's new sales tax law until 2014.
East Bay Express |
Robert Gammon |
09-07-2011 |
Business & Labor
Tags: Sales Tax, Amazon.com
The Man Who Fell to Earthnew
The wonderment threshold has been raised considerably since the days when Nicolas Roeg and his leading man David Bowie were pop-culture sensations. And so it's an opportune time to revisit Roeg's misunderstood sci-fi idyll, The Man Who Fell to Earth, especially in light of a new "director's cut," which restores some twenty minutes of the filmmaker's intentions.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
09-07-2011 |
Reviews
Marcus Books Is Making a Comebacknew
After being a victim of a Ponzi scheme, the nation's oldest African-American bookstore is recovering from its financial woes. But can it cope with black flight from Oakland?
East Bay Express |
Holly McDede |
09-01-2011 |
Business & Labor
Unknown Mortal Orchestranew
A nonsensical, nostalgic work of Sixties pysch-rock, it pushes all the right buttons, and when the stuttering guitar solo kicks in, it pushes all the right buttons at once.
East Bay Express |
Nate Seltenrich |
09-01-2011 |
Reviews
UC Berkeley Student Wastenew
The annual cycle of buying stuff and throwing it away has begun.
East Bay Express |
Peter Lollo |
08-31-2011 |
Environment
The Interruptersnew
How to defuse real-life street violence.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
08-30-2011 |
Reviews
The Debt: How to Defuse a Thrillernew
The framework of a decent thriller is there. WWII German Nazi war criminal Dieter Vogel, the infamous "Surgeon of Birkenau," is being hunted by the Israeli Mossad, circa 1965-66.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
08-30-2011 |
Reviews
Charles Anselmo Finds Beauty in Decaynew
Charles Anselmo has been traveling to Cuba for more than a decade, photographing the effects of economic deprivation and tropical fecundity on the colonial architecture of Havana (and also championing the work of Cuban photographers here on the big island). His large-format color photographs on paper and silk banners and his small-format black-and-white studies of Cubans in Deconstructions: La Habana pose Macaulay's questions anew for contemporary viewers.
East Bay Express |
DeWitt Cheng |
08-25-2011 |
Art
A Guide to LGBT Senior Rightsnew
Share LGBT seniors are entitled to equal treatment, access to services, and basic legal protections under state and federal law. The Federal Nursing Home Reform Act, enacted in 1987, requires nursing facilities to protect the rights of each resident.
East Bay Express |
Nancy Lopez |
08-25-2011 |
LGBT
Referendums Turning the Tide on Pot Bansnew
Medical cannabis activists are increasingly fighting dispensary bans at the ballot box.
East Bay Express |
David Downs |
08-25-2011 |
Drugs
The Food Fight Rages Onnew
Angry Mom Amy Kalafa takes her cause to the page.
East Bay Express |
Stefanie Kalem |
08-24-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
