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.

The Great Recession may be over, but every night people are sleeping on benches or in makeshift shelters. Here are a few of their stories. After I went out with Vinny Pannizzo, I began to see ...

An ex-teacher is on trial for revealing the secrets of an alleged cult. And in what may be a precedent for free-speech rights, he won't have to reveal his identity. Very little is known about the ...

Adam Myatt is known as one half of Oakland electro-pop duo James & Evander. But now he's also known for his love of cats. Step inside Adam Myatt’s bottom-floor apartment in West Oakland, which ...

Victor Arnautoff's mural about George Washington is squarely on the side of the oppressed. The notion that today's adolescents need protection from history or reality is deeply patronizing.

An ex-girlfriend of AC Transit board member Joel Young says he hit her repeatedly. But Young says she attacked him. A judge, meanwhile, expresses doubts about both their stories. Joel Young is a ...

SIMPLIFY ‘To enjoy horror,’ Mattson said, ‘you have to think of the victim as something that doesn’t have complex humanity.’ Set around a “full-contact” house of horrors in mid ...

When staff turnover is at an all-time high, Cheese Board, Arizmendi, and other East Bay collectives buck the trend. Denis Gomez, Megan Ledet, Delia Desmond, Mahasin Munir, and Luis Andrade live ...

The DJ is taking over the Bay Area's underground nightlife scene, and carving out safe spaces for trans women to celebrate themselves in the process. There’s something uniquely captivating about ...

Overburdened with air pollution, East Oakland residents and activists thought they had blocked a crematorium from opening in 2012. But it quietly began operations a few months ago. Angela Scott ...

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 ...

A live-work building under investigation by the city and plagued by maintenance problems and possible fire hazards raises alarms about several powerful real estate investors. At first glance, Will ...