Of all the crappy problems cities have to deal with—traffic, climate change, hipsters—actual, literal crap often gets overlooked. Not today!
If you, like me, are a bit of a map geek, you should carve out a half hour in the next two weeks and set…
Lately, we’ve been reading a lot of Norman Birdwell’s children’s classic “Clifford the Big Red Dog” in my household. Like pretty much every night. There…
Gentrification: The subject keeps popping up like yet another farm-to-table gastropub.
I was spending some time walking through my old neighborhood in Oakland near Lake Merritt on Wednesday, when I came across something I don’t think…
Well, that’s one way to make public transit more exciting.
I basically haven’t posted anything new to this blog since my 2013 year-end roundup. It’s been a busy year full of new challenges and responsibilities,…
I meant to do a post as part of my End of the Year Rankstravaganza specifically focused on Bay Area bands and musicians. Of course,…
I only did a countdown of five albums this year, rather than what has been the customary 15. Beyond these five, I wasn’t convinced that…
Once again, I’m turning this in a few days past deadline. No matter! It’s still not too late to celebrate 2013, which in my musical…