Rachel Swan
Bio:
Rachel Swan is the music editor at the East Bay Express, and a recovering Luddite. She has also written for Film Quarterly, Vibe, Bitch, Jazziz, and The Best Sex Writing of 2010. Just sayin'.
Rachel Swan is the music editor at the East Bay Express, and a recovering Luddite. She has also written for Film Quarterly, Vibe, Bitch, Jazziz, and The Best Sex Writing of 2010. Just sayin'.
- News, May 19, 2010
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A Hot Seat for Alameda County Judge
Victoria Kolakowski has turned a normally-obscure election into a high-stakes battle, as she vies to become the first transgendered superior court judge in the nation.
- News, Mar 7, 2012
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A New Lease for Le Cheval
One of Monica Ung's victims reopens at its original location.
- News, Aug 3, 2005
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All the Nymphos Fit to Info
BootyCrack brings readers the "official street gospel." But some think it's showing too much ass.
- News, Feature, Feb 20, 2008
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Bad Review Blues
The Noise Pop Film Festival kicks off with the critic-bashing documentary Heckler.
- News, Oct 10, 2007
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Battleground Sproul
Right-wing agitator David Horowitz sets the bait, a leftist group mobilizes, and the stage is set for a rowdy week on the Cal campus.
- News, Oct 5, 2011
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Bloodbath at Village Voice Media
Last week's round of layoffs might actually stabilize the money-losing SF Weekly.
- News, Aug 22, 2007
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Breaching the Velvet Rope
Two guys brave obstacles in their efforts to open a Maxwell Park club that caters to lesbians.
- News, Jul 12, 2006
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Club May Be Clubbed
Mingles' digs may face demolition, and North Oakland launches a new farmers' market.
- News, Feature, Sep 15, 2004
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Crackin' Nutz
Women MCs struggle for a place of their own amid the misogyny and violence of gangsta rap.
- News, Feature, May 8, 2013
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Debtor's Purgatory
People who can't afford to hire an attorney have virtually no chance in court against well-heeled lawyers for banks and debt collection companies.
- News, Nov 22, 2006
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Delete! Add! Delete!
Local election feuding continues online; Mingles closes, but a new hip-hop club is slated for Sweet Jimmie's space; Iraq whistleblower has some, uh, issues.
- News, Feature, Apr 21, 2010
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Devon Blood's Season of Blood
Oakland tattooer Devon Blood sustained a gunshot wound to the skull. It wasn't clear if he'd ever emerge from his coma, let alone tattoo again.
- News, Mar 14, 2012
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Did Castlewood's Lawyer Doctor Evidence?
The attorney for the upscale Pleasanton country club that locked out its workers is now on the hot seat.
- News, Feature, Feb 20, 2008
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Dig This
The inclusion of dance and hip-hop is a daring move that could alter Noise Pop's stature.
- News, Video, Nov 19, 2008
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Express Labs Tests Condom Breakage
In the inaugural installment of Express Labs, we compare three condoms: Durex Sensi-Thin, Trojan Magnum, and Berkeley's own Kimono MicroThin
- News, Feature, Oct 12, 2005
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Fabulous Five
Lipstick Conspiracy aspires to rock stardom, but that's a tough sell when you can't even tell your co-workers you're a tranny.
- News, Feature, Mar 15, 2006
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Feelin' Their Thizzle
How the culture of Ecstasy has changed as the drug moved from raves to hip-hop.
- News, Jan 21, 2009
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Food-Free Zone?
Berkeley city planners may finally resolve the beef over Sunday Thai breakfasts.
- News, Jun 27, 2007
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Gay Dive's New Vibe
Lesbian entrepreneurs seek to replace Caleb's Reef with Oakland's only upscale GLBT nightspot.
- News, Feature, Nov 19, 2008
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Go Thin or Bust
How Berkeley's Mayer Laboratories won the battle of the thin condoms.
