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How to Party Properly on New Year's Eve
Whether you want to dance till morning or be in bed by midnight, we've got the rundown on the best events happening this year.
by Lenika Cruz, Ellen Cushing, Azeen Ghorayshi, Whitney Phaneuf, and Luke Tsai
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, Dec 22, 2010
The Year of the Lounge
Oakland's new nightspots incorporate a homey feel.
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, Dec 22, 2010
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Comedy is the new way to diversify your hipster portfolio.
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, Jul 28, 2010
Robert Ashley's Life Well Wasted
The Berkeley podcaster gives video games and gamers the public radio treatment.
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, Mar 10, 2010
First Person Singular
Berkeley filmmaker's quest to find the woman she replaced in a South Korean orphanage — and come to terms with her own identity — turns out to be even more complicated.
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, Jul 22, 2009
(Re)Making History with SFMOMA
A group of Oakland teens gets to remix its own version of local history, courtesy of SFMOMA.
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, May 13, 2009
Skateboarding Down the Bay
John Eppard plans to skateboard from Richmond to San Jose. It might be crazy, if he hadn't already done it once.
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, Feb 20, 2008
Savage Dragon is a Free Agent
Berkeley's Image Comics forever changed the ways comic book artists relate to the publishers.
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, Aug 29, 2007
BAM, There It Is -- Someday
Plans for the new Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive are making slow, steady progress.
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, Aug 22, 2007
A World Apart
San Francisco Fashion Week touts bay eclecticism to the larger fashion scene.
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, Jul 4, 2007
T Who Laughs Last
"That other brother," Tommy T, bets on a comedy club at Kimball's Carnival.
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, Aug 2, 2006
Some Call It Art
Jonathon Keats may not be a "real" artist, but he's a provocateur without question.
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, Mar 22, 2006
E-40. 2006. Yee.
Twelve hundred fans storm Emeryville to see the Yay Area's Ambassador.
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, Feb 22, 2006
With This Ring
Sometimes marriage means happily ever after -- and sometimes it means secrets and lies.
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, Feb 1, 2006
Hit and Miss
There are good reasons "the mainstream media" has ignored John Perkins'
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.
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, Jan 11, 2006
High Art and Razor Wire
Upscale gallery bets on a nascent downtown Oakland renaissance.
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, Dec 21, 2005
Where to go for New Year's 2005
Our guide to New Year's events.
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, Nov 30, 2005
Food for Thought
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