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Motherhood breeds invention
Motherhood does not automatically cause a person to become an entrepreneur. But in Cassie Ye’s case, it did. In 2014, she founded her company, Stelle. The year was a big one. The birth of identical twin girls...
Berkeley game store welcomes all to play
The clash of steel upon steel rings out across the valley floor. Banners ripple in the air as a low, relentless drumming urges thousands of dusty boots onward. A bugle cries out, sending nesting birds skyward. The...
Gift guide showcases local shopping
Shopping locally in the East Bay provides a treasure trove of gift options. Below are a few ideas from shops in the Solano Avenue, Rockridge, Piedmont, Grand Avenue and Fourth Street shopping districts.
Home sweet office: Ideas for productivity and comfort
Let’s face it—working from home in the East Bay means we’re as likely to share our “office” with a cat, a kombucha SCOBY and the sound of someone’s leaf blower as with a co-worker.
Yet somewhere between our...
The art of home that’s built to last
Long before they founded SOBU, the design-forward furniture and home décor store on College Avenue in Oakland’s Rockridge district, Laleh (née Zahedi) and Alessandro Latini met as teenagers at Redwood High School in Corte Madera—a pairing that,...
Margaret O’Leary dreams in color
Fusing Irish tradition, an innovative spirit and the enthusiasm of its founder, the Margaret O’Leary brand has been loved throughout and beyond the Bay Area for more than 30 years. The label, established by Margaret O’Leary in...
Fashion that gets better with age
The tagline for Standard & Strange, a specialty clothing shop located in West Berkeley’s Fourth Street neighborhood, is “Own Fewer, Better Things.” Owner Jeremy Smith lives by that philosophy, an ideal that harkens back to early industrial...
