THURSDAY RAP SCHOOLBOY Q After a nearly five-year hiatus, ScHoolboy Q has returned with Blue Lips, an album describing the bittersweet fruits of success: the comforts, the paranoia, the riches ...

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 ...

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.

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WINNING PAIR Tim Bluhm and Greg Loiacono front the group and write the songs that make their albums so compelling. The Mother Hips have played their unique blend of music—a freewheeling mixture ...

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 ...

STARTER The tomato and melon salad. The fresh burrata, lemon cucumber, cilantro and toasted sunflower-seed gremolata weren’t engaged in open conflict, but neither were they speaking to each other.

WIT AND WISDOM From the pages of ‘Fuzz’ arise an endlessly diverse and rich carpet of the cultures that underpin science. Centered in Roach’s vise-like command of tone, broadly cast net of ...

BLACK MARKET The vast majority of weed sold in California is sold illegally, thanks to high taxes, overregulation and home rule, which allows localities to deny licenses to cannabis businesses.

GOOD VIBES ‘The vibrations of a love song can heal us,’ Powell says. ‘When you’re in a state of deep love, you are the love, as well as the loved one.’ The songs on Mae Powell’s debut ...

TOWN-PROOFING Sadly for urban foresters, Oakland won’t likely see any funding from Newsom’s billion-dollar fire-prevention pledge. Trees provide shade during heat waves, sequester CO2, filter ...

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