Oakland boxing champ Andre Ward returns to the Oracle this Saturday.
Christina Koci Hernandez explores identity and spectacle.
Oakland Opera recreates the Fannie Lou Hamer story.
Melanie Gideon charts a midlife crisis in The Slippery Year.
But figure out when you're full, says Signe Darpinian.
For the week of November 18-24, 2009.
Flirtation, hook-ups, slurs, and cross-dressing.
How one manic episode became the launching point for Joshua Walters' career in theater.
Jaime Guerrero turns his inner-city past into art.
Illustrator Chris Lane turns our pathogen fears into a full-fledged year of infection.
Local entrepreneur hopes unknown documentaries and live R&B will save the San Leandro theater from extinction.
How Anna Broadway cashed in on being a 31-year-old virgin and scored a book deal.
Prozack Turner sets aside his rap dreams to become a businessman.
Mario Bobino's Townbiz successfully traffics in Oakland's criminal mythology.
San Francisco's beloved gay dance station shuttered last week to make room for a Top-40 Revolution.
Members of the 9/11 "Truth" movement are typically disparaged as crackpots. In fact, they're actually wonks.
Concord's popular theater company faces imminent closure.
Coach Joanne Boyle has built the Cal women's basketball program by treating team members as people as well as players.