Of all the ways that COVID-19 jobbed us out of a proper observation of the Golden Gate Park’s 150th anniversary, one of these is that many of us could not risk going to see the amazing interactive LED installation “Entwined” in the park’s Peacock Meadow. People even started a petition

Today was the Netflix walk-out by employees upset over the streaming network’s Dave Chappelle special The Closer. Netflix also fired a Black trans employee for leaking company information. We think we’ve discovered what that leaked company information is, and it’s kind of an ironic footnote to this whole Chappelle controversy.

Halloween trick-or-treating will be back at full power this year, and even Dr. Fauci says Halloween is a go for 2021. That means you will need a proper Halloween jack-o-lantern (or five) in front of your household for October 31, or any of the 11 shopping days left until Halloween.

There is a right way and a wrong way to leave your restaurant job. The right way is to submit a formal, written two-week notice. You then offer to train whoever it is that will be taking your position. Finally, you finish out your shifts with maturity and a sense

Walmart is the gift that keeps on giving…reasons not to shop there.  Look, squirrel! The discount retail behemoth would like you to turn your attention to their super early Black Friday sales, renewed commitment to American jobs, stock performance…anything to keep conscious consumers from pulling back the curtain on today’s

Thirty years ago today was pretty unremarkable in the East Bay. It was a breezy Saturday, hot by Oakland’s standards at about 83 degrees. By all accounts, it was a beautiful day to be out. We didn’t know then that there was a monster lying in wait.  There had been

It all began here in Oakland 55 years ago: the rise of what would become a global movement for equal civil rights under the law, for oppressed brothers and sisters of every stripe. With a “radical” idea of what equality looks like and a 10-point platform, the Black Panther Party