Elizabeth Vecchiarelli teaches all of the core classes at Preserved, her Temescal culinary store. These “hands-on workshop experiences” explore a wide range of topics, such as fermented ...

THURSDAY RAP SCHOOLBOY Q After a nearly five-year hiatus, ScHoolboy Q has returned with Blue Lips, an album describing the bittersweet fruits of success: the comforts, the paranoia, the riches ...

These days, nail art has no limits. In Alice Kincade’s experience, anyway. The Oakland-based nail artist began her work in her dorm room at UCLA in 2019 while recovering from a car accident.

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WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT? Everything, when we’re talking about the Bay Area. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Yes, the title of this year’s introduction to the East Bay Express ...

Sponsored content by Freight & Salvage “Since its founding in 1968, the Freight & Salvage has been deeply rooted in that aspect of Berkeley’s culture that embraced freedom, justice, acceptance ...

WINNING PAIR Tim Bluhm and Greg Loiacono front the group and write the songs that make their albums so compelling. The Mother Hips have played their unique blend of music—a freewheeling mixture ...

STARTER The tomato and melon salad. The fresh burrata, lemon cucumber, cilantro and toasted sunflower-seed gremolata weren’t engaged in open conflict, but neither were they speaking to each other.

BUZZ KILL Burner distros may have diverted millions of pounds of weed from the legal market to illicit sellers. This development only makes a bad situation worse. We all tend to think of ...

WIT AND WISDOM From the pages of ‘Fuzz’ arise an endlessly diverse and rich carpet of the cultures that underpin science. Centered in Roach’s vise-like command of tone, broadly cast net of ...

GOOD VIBES ‘The vibrations of a love song can heal us,’ Powell says. ‘When you’re in a state of deep love, you are the love, as well as the loved one.’ The songs on Mae Powell’s debut ...

TOWN-PROOFING Sadly for urban foresters, Oakland won’t likely see any funding from Newsom’s billion-dollar fire-prevention pledge. Trees provide shade during heat waves, sequester CO2, filter ...