AltWeeklies Wire
Flowers Are the New Fruitnew
A some restaurants, chefs are putting the petals to the metal.
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
09-29-2010 |
Food+Drink
They Make Mad Noisenew
Oakland buskers turn their hustle into performance art -- and a dissertation.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
09-13-2010 |
Performance
Tags: Mad Noise, Khalil Sullivan
Kayla Stra's Long-Shot Betnew
She came to California to make it as a jockey, only to be cast as a sex symbol in a reality show. Now she's in the Bay Area trying to win races -- and to overcome the prejudice against female jockeys.
East Bay Express |
Kibby Kleiman |
09-08-2010 |
Sports
Tags: Annie Leibovitz, Kayla Stra
World of Streetcolornew
An anonymous knitter bombs the streets of Berkeley.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
08-26-2010 |
Culture
Pretty Label Winesnew
Many of us occasionally buy wines because they have a gorgeous label, but few of us admit to it We were heading for a week's vacation in Santa Barbara, which is surely the supermodel of seaside towns...
East Bay Express |
Jody Brettkelly |
08-26-2010 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Wine
Wine From a Land Down Undernew
New Zealand Sauvignon Blancs: decent wines for feeling fine.
East Bay Express |
Jody Brettkelly |
08-06-2010 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Wine
Robert Ashley's Life Well Wastednew
A Life Well Wasted, by podcaster Robert Ashley, is hardly the only internet radio show devoted to video games. But it must be the only one regularly compared by fans to the beloved radio program This American Life.
East Bay Express |
Neal Soldofsky |
07-28-2010 |
Culture
The Rise of the Stay-at-Home Dadnew
Paul Schwartz and the East Bay Dads represent a growing contingent of men who are quitting their day jobs to change diapers while their wives work full time to support the family. Though the recession has played a part in the shifting demographic, for many families, the dad's transition to domesticity was a calculated choice.
East Bay Express |
Caitlin Esch |
03-24-2010 |
Culture
Can Oakland Go the Distance? After 25 Years, a Marathon Returnsnew
the Oakland Running Festival is scheduled for the weekend of March 26-28 and will include the first road marathon to be held in Oakland in more than 25 years. The event returns with an eye-popping new route and a menu of race choices.
East Bay Express |
Dan Schoenholz |
03-17-2010 |
Sports
Old Man River: Hans Hofmann Resurgent at Berkeley Art Museumnew
The abstract expressionist wild men of yore have become our old masters. SFMOMA has its Clyfford Stills, and BAM has its Hans Hofmanns: 47 works the artist donated in the mid-1960s in gratitude for the Bay Area's early recognition of his art.
East Bay Express |
DeWitt Cheng |
01-27-2010 |
Art
Using Yoga to Help Young People Break the Cycle of Violencenew
The Oakland-based Niroga Institute seeks to take yoga out of the world of the pale, privileged, and pliable. Giving thought to where, how, and to whom yoga is taught, the institute aims to make the practice a tool for healing communities at their sorest points.
East Bay Express |
Marcy Rein |
12-30-2009 |
Sports
Greenwashing the Milknew
Despite a downturn, two giants of the organic milk industry are going strong. And the secret to their success appears to be a loophole in federal law that lets them market their milk as "organic" while raising their herds in a manner that critics say mocks the term.
East Bay Express |
Robert Gammon |
11-25-2009 |
Food+Drink
How One Runner's Obsession Left Him Missing in the Wildernessnew
John Mintz was lost in the Snow Mountain Wilderness, which straddles three counties and includes 37,000 acres within the larger Mendocino National Forest, with no supplies for an entire week. How did that happen?
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
10-07-2009 |
Culture
How the Sustainable-Food Movement Drove One Family to the Frozen-Food Aislenew
While I was thinking about what kinds of foods are good for my kids' bodies and our Earth, my family was seeing less and less of me. That's when it came to me: I'm not going to cook anymore.
East Bay Express |
Sierra Filucci |
09-23-2009 |
Food+Drink
Green Day Electrifies Musical Theater at the Berkeley Rep with 'American Idiot'new
The rock opera adaptation of Green Day's multiplatinum 2004 smash American Idiot is going to challenge the very definitions of punk, theater and musical.
East Bay Express |
David Downs |
09-02-2009 |
Theater
