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Martina Chavez-Young builds a yoga community rooted in accessibility
For an outstanding example of the value of transferrable skills, look no further than Martina Chavez-Young.
The founder/owner of Richmond’s Gaia Yoga, voted a 2025 “Readers’ Pick” for the best yoga studio in the entire East Bay region...
Bar Skula opens on Grand
Murals of fish and other sea creatures are submerged and swimming on the blue surfaces of Bar Skula’s walls. Capitalizing on its location near Lake Merritt, the underwater theme extends to the menu, with a prominent section...
Asawa’s art revealed in SFMOMA retrospective
In a fourth floor gallery at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, two women stand transfixed. Gazing upward at a hanging sculpture made with galvanized steel wire and lit by a diffuse spotlight that casts a...
Channeling an indomitable spirit
At 95, Dolores Huerta could rest on her laurels with no reproaches. Labor leader, tireless fighter for immigrant rights and civil rights, as well as feminist,...
West Edge Opera Presents Its Summer of the Supernovas
Cellist Jacqueline du Pré died at 42 of complications from multiple sclerosis. But during her brief, brilliant life, she was “a supernova,” said Marnie Breckenridge, the...
Face is the Place: Meet some of the people shaping the East Bay
What is the character of the East Bay? It’s a question I ask myself with every issue.
When we think of a place, we often think of...
Candi Martinez brings Oakland together
It’s a sunny day in May, and Candi Martinez holds her daughter’s tiny hand as the two twirl to face a pair of friends in the...
