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September 27, 2024
Tracking the scent in Berkeley
After reading about Berkeley’s Aftel Archive of Curious Scents in T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Vogue and Smithsonian magazine—to name a few—I thought I knew what to expect when I got there.
Indeed, my visit to...
September 26, 2024
Of All Places elevates the bodega
A new East Bay specialty market is redefining the meaning of the word bodega. Celia and Joe Catalino’s Of All Places in Berkeley has recently joined the ranks of small markets such as Preserved and Benchmark Portavia....
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September 26, 2024
Insert Art Here
When husband-and-wife team Sage and Tari Loring started their arts consultancy agency, Local Edition Creative, the vision for their company wasn’t fully formed. It didn’t matter. They had been sketching it out, year by year, with the...
June 25, 2024
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...
February 23, 2024
The pandemic was hard on live theaters. Many small companies did not survive it. But innovative and scrappy Oakland Theater Project was able to draw inspiration...
September 27, 2024
The older I get, the more health and wellness rule my life—not to mention, of course, the whole global pandemic thing. Having once lived in the...
September 27, 2024
The mail carrier delivered another piece of mail addressed to the former occupant.
But this time, the soft-cover book, The Giving List: Women Doing It Differently, turned...
