East Bay
By Sara Bernard on Oct 10 2011 - 5:13pm
It’s been a decade since the start of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, what came to be called “Operation Enduring Freedom.” NATO forces struck key Al Qaeda targets and toppled the Taliban government, forcing them to flee to the mountains. But those fighters never gave up, and to this day,...
By Sam Hurwitt on Oct 8 2011 - 10:06am
This article was originally published at The Idiolect.
Berkeley resident Rita Moreno is a bona-fide show business legend, one of the first people to win an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy and a Tony award. She’ll be 80 in December, but boy, you wouldn’t know it from her performance in her autobiographical...
By Judy Silber on Oct 3 2011 - 4:59pm
Californians do a pretty good job thinking twice before throwing things away ... we divert more than 60% of our waste away from landfills. But what about that remaining 40%? Arthur Boone says to get rid of that, we need to completely rethink our concept of garbage. Boone’s a recycling pioneer; for...
By Lindsey Lee Keel on Sep 26 2011 - 4:00pm
Carolin Kunze’s fiancé Matt Fuller, was a cavalry scout in the 101st Airborne Division of the US Army. The two had only just begun their life together when Matt’s post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms became a challenge to their relationship. Between his two deployments in Afghanistan, they...
By Sam Hurwitt on Sep 26 2011 - 2:46pm
This article was originally published at The Idiolect.
Half-drow assassin Nigel Blackthorn and Petula the Space Pirate walk into La Val’s tavern, still much wearied from their quest to lay siege to Castle Dashwood and in need of rest before embarking upon the morrow’s epic adventure that would...
By Crosscurrents Producer on Sep 22 2011 - 11:12am
Curt Yagi's big-band sound is streamlined, funky. The San Francisco Bay Guardian once voted him the "Best of the Bay Singer/Songwriter," and he'll be part of the Leland Ave Street Fair this Sunday, September 25, starting at 10am.
By Kevin Robinson on Sep 21 2011 - 4:49pm
The Bay Area is home to over 50 annual film festivals, but there’s only one that describes itself as all of the following: “bottom-up, DIY, misfit, badass, outsider, outlaw, rebel, underdog, minority, local, urban, green, un-polished, revolutionary, unpretentious, and non-traditional.”
It’s the...
By Martina Castro on Sep 21 2011 - 4:25pm
Imagine for a moment that you could go back in time and talk to your younger self, say at about age nine. What would have been your biggest dreams? Favorite color? Best friends? What would you hope to never forget as a grown up?
These are just a few of the questions that KALW’s Martina Castro posed...
By Max Jacobs on Sep 20 2011 - 6:25pm
The Bay Area is a great center for music of all cultures and nations. The Oakland band The Phenomenauts, however, have put their own unique spin on the idea of world music. Intergalactic music might actually be a more appropriate description.
At live shows, the band wears elaborate and colorful...
By Erica Mu on Sep 15 2011 - 4:38pm
San Francisco's Real Vocal String Quartet has been playing a globally-inspired version of chamber music since 2003. You can find out what that means this Sunday, September 18, at an intimate living room concert hosted by Mark Schaeffer and Debra Goldentyer in Oakland.
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