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May 21, 2024
What’s Free and Who’s Fair?
Controversy over what constitutes “free and fair elections” continues at all levels of government, including locally. Richmond, which, like many cities in California, was threatened with litigation if it did not begin electing city council members by...
Jun 5, 2024
‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’ Travels a Familiar Highway
Re: George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga: Once more, we find ourselves plunged into Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle.
Debord (1931-1994), a favorite French intellectual of the espresso-and-resistance crowd, published the above book in 1967,...
Jun 4, 2024
Home Is Where the Art Is
The concept of “home” is baked into human DNA. “There’s no place like home,” says Dorothy as she clicks her heels to return to Kansas. But, wrote seminal American writer Thomas Wolfe, “You Can’t Go Home Again.”
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The second empanada chef Erica Sanders ever tasted was in Costa Rica. Twenty years ago while studying Spanish there, she ordered them at a bakery on...
Bay Area chain Mumu Hot Pot recently moved into its fifth location, on the northwest corner of Bay Street Emeryville. Hot-pot dinners aren’t an obvious post-pandemic...
