- Arts & Culture, Visual Art, May 15, 2013
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Why 'Blonde Ambition' Lacks Ambition
Jenny Sharaf attempts to open feminist dialogue through an exhibition that ruptures mainstream portrayals of blondeness.
- Arts & Culture, Savage Love, May 15, 2013
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Dress Up
Plus butt plugs, porn mags, and DSGs.
- Arts & Culture, Books, May 15, 2013
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Telling, Not Showing
With 'Cooked', Michael Pollan gets in the kitchen — with mixed success.
- Arts & Culture, Theater, May 8, 2013
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A Noir Set in Berkeley?
Playwright Dan Harder marries the 1930s crime genre and contemporary Berkeley to greatly entertaining effect.
- Arts & Culture, Books, May 8, 2013
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The Unsettling Truth Mary Roach Wants Us to Accept
Her new book, Gulp, tackles the taboo topic of what happens beyond the plate.
- Arts & Culture, Events, May 8, 2013
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Internet Cat Videos Go Public
The first-ever Oakland Internet Cat Video Festival celebrates our weird obsession with quirky felines.
- Arts & Culture, Dance, May 8, 2013
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Walnut Creek's Company C Ballet Offers 'A Modest Proposal'
Its spring season explores the various ways that dance tries to communicate.
- Arts & Culture, Savage Love, May 8, 2013
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A Shitty Husband
Plus crazy liberal hippies who are bi and and an escort who is horny.
- Arts & Culture, Events, May 1, 2013
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A Two-Wheeled Taco Pursuit
This Cinco de Mayo, bike around Oakland in search of its best taco spots.
- Arts & Culture, Visual Art, May 1, 2013
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Festival of Form
This enjoyably crowded, twelve-artist sculpture exhibition highlights a nature-focused sensibility.
- Arts & Culture, Savage Love, May 1, 2013
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Move On
Plus a monogamish arrangement and an assist from alcohol.
- Arts & Culture, Theater, Apr 24, 2013
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Ragtag Shakespeare
A bold director uses unconventional methods to make one of Shakespeare's lousiest comedies a brilliant, mesmerizing affair
- Arts & Culture, Events, Apr 24, 2013
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All Hail the Herb
Homestead Apothecary spreads the good word about our most useful California native plants.
- Arts & Culture, Dance, Apr 24, 2013
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Ten Days of Dance
Bay Area Dance Week expands to epic proportions.
- Arts & Culture, Visual Art, Apr 24, 2013
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Johnna Arnold's Risky, Rebellious Photographs of Freeways
Her "rummaging" around concrete structures are photographed with captivating clarity.
- Arts & Culture, Savage Love, Apr 24, 2013
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It's All Good
A problem-free week.
- Arts & Culture, Theater, Apr 17, 2013
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'The Arsonists' Fails to Ignite
Max Frisch's 1953 farce about appeasement does not quite click in a modern milieu.
- Arts & Culture, Visual Art, Apr 17, 2013
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The Anxiety That Artists Feel
A two-gallery group show names anxiety as its subject, but the works complicate more than substantiate the term.
- Arts & Culture, Events, Apr 17, 2013
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A Culture Clash of Cinematic Proportions
The Pacific Film Archive's "Cine/Spin" pairs silent-film classics with DJs spinning electronic music.
- Arts & Culture, Savage Love, Apr 17, 2013
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Dick Holes
Plus pot orgasms and role-play scenarios.
