BEST OF THE EAST BAY EXPRESS PARTY
To celebrate the winners of the Best of the East Bay, the Express is throwing a performing and visual arts party at the Oakland Museum on Friday, July 11, from 7pm to midnight. Headlining bands include...
View ArticleBrainwash weekend culture extravaganza alliance
Here is a video shot to accompany the Night Owl story about De Lauer’s. As for this weekend, tonight begins the 14th annual Brainwash drive, bike and walk-in movie festival at the Mandela Village Arts...
View ArticleKick ass or just sip back this weekend
Who says politics can’t be cool? check out the Oakland Museum tonight. Saturday is the restaging of Angela Davis’ speech she made in the same spot in 1969. (Read all about it.) Also from 11 a.m. to 6...
View ArticleBlack Panthers strike again
The Lower Bottoms’ impresario Marcel Diallo has been masterful about bringing Oakland’s past and present together. Little surprise then that he is behind the show “Black Panther: The Cultural Ministry...
View ArticleAngela Davis then and now
I have been thinking a lot about the upcoming elections and democracy in the United States. Some of my thoughts were sparked, or more accurately intensified, by the weekend of Aug. 1, which I wrote...
View ArticleAngela Davis then and now Part 2
Here is more about the weekend of Aug. 1, which I wrote about in the following blog entry because I was covering a Night Owl event that was intensely political and thought provoking. Art and resistance...
View ArticleSqueak Carnwath show at the Oakland museum
Oakland-based artist Squeak Carnwath has a show at the Oakland Museum. I don’t know her work well but from the interview on Forum she sounds like my kind of cerebral artist. If you’re going to go do it...
View ArticlePrepare for Oakland museum closure
For the first time in its 40-year history, the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) will temporarily close to the public. The hiatus–effective 5 p.m. on Sunday, August 23–will allow the Museum to...
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