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“Fishing kept us out of trouble”: Memories of the Berkeley waterfront
Berkeley’s waterfront has undergone many transformations. For millennia, the shoreline was dotted with Ohlone village sites, thriving amidst an abundance of fish and fowl. In the decades following…
“No casual experiments”: Inside a legendary psychedelics lab
In a small, bunker-like laboratory in the East Bay hills, Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin created some of the world’s most powerful psychedelic drugs. Astonishingly, he didn’t try to hide his activities.…
Covering the counterculture: How a rebellious era shaped journalism
During the 1960s, America’s Cold War era monoculture was shattered by the arrival of birth control pills, civil rights protests, anti-war riots, LSD, rock & roll, and an unprecedented upsurge in…
“I felt burning in my throat”: Preparing for nuclear war in Livermore
In February, America’s nuclear arms treaty with Russia expired, ushering in “a global rush for new weapons,” according to New York Times. Much of the next generation of the US nuclear arsenal will be…
Welcome to "the floating city": How the Hornet dodged destruction
The USS Hornet fought in some of the biggest naval battles in world history, picked up astronauts returning from the first moon landing, and is allegedly one of the most haunted places in America.…
“That’s where my power came from”: Betty Reid Soskin's century of chaos and hope
On December 21st, 2025, the Bay Area lost one of its oldest and most distinguished residents: The legendary Betty Reid Soskin passed away at the age of 104. To pay tribute to her extraordinary life…
How to save a house: Meet the people maintaining some of the Bay’s oldest homes
Historic houses offer a tangible connection to a city’s past, but maintaining them is difficult and expensive. Some of Oakland’s most unique structures are currently endangered due to deferred…
“He wanted people to take risks”: An underdog movement’s astonishing rise
If you were born after 1990, it might be easy to think that the world has always had wheelchair ramps, closed captions, and bathroom stalls for people with disabilities. But none of those things…
“My neighborhood looks the same as it did 50 years ago”: What needs protection – and what needs to change?
Everyone has opinions on the Bay Area’s problems with housing, transit and public infrastructure, but Darrell Owens digs deep into the historical roots of these issues on his Substack “The Discourse…
“The ballroom communist”: How a radical aristocrat changed Oakland
How did Jessica Mitford go from being an elite British debutante to fighting on the front lines of America’s early civil rights struggles? While two of her older sisters befriended Adolph Hitler,…
“We let everybody throw it away”: How garbage worked before corporations took over
In recent years, volunteer-led groups like Urban Compassion Project have struggled to deal with illegal dumping in Oakland. Despite removing more than half a million pounds of trash this year, piles…
Fighting fascism can be fun: La Peña celebrates 50 years of creative struggle
In 1973, Chile’s democratically elected socialist president Salvador Allende was toppled by a right-wing military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet. As news of the brutal repression that followed…
“Respect the patch”: How Oakland’s oldest Black motorcycle club survived more than 60 years
Tobie Gene Levingston left behind his life as a Louisiana sharecropper in the mid-1950s to work at an Oakland metal foundry. Within a few years, he started the East Bay Dragons, which grew to be one…
“Not on the wealth corridor”: Why older neighborhoods get left behind
There’s an area southeast of Lake Merritt that’s lined with abandoned buildings, boarded up storefronts, vacant lots, and decrepit warehouses. The neighborhoods here, Clinton and San Antonio, are…
Industry makes and breaks the Bay Area: A crash course with Richard Walker
From the gold rush to the tech boom, this region has been shaped by successive waves of business growth and decline. Every generation, new investments, innovations, and industries have led the way in…
People of the Pacific Circuit: Oakland’s place in the global economy
On March 25, I interviewed Alexis Madrigal and Noni Session in front of a sold out crowd at Spire in West Oakland. Madrigal is the author of an essential new book called “The Pacific Circuit: A…
“Crockett became Italy”: How a sugar factory created an immigrant enclave
On the western outskirts of Crockett, on the bluffs overlooking the Carquinez strait, there’s a small unincorporated neighborhood called Valona. These days, this community isn’t that different from…
“A town in the middle of a city”: Live from Jingletown with the Co-Founders crew
Anyone who has ever driven on 880 and noticed that there appears to be ancient brick walls closing in on you as you pass through Oakland’s Jingletown neighborhood has probably wondered about the…
Punks on film: How Murray Bowles captured “the physical expression of drama”
Since the dawn of the smartphone era, everybody has carried a camera with them at all times. If anything, there are too many photos and videos being recorded at concerts. We all know the annoyance of…
A century of mysteries: Exploring the Fox Theater’s hazy history
Despite being one of Oakland’s most iconic buildings, the history of the Fox Theater is filled with unsolved mysteries. In preparation for his ongoing tours of the nearly century-old structure,…
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