FOLLOW US
Mar 12, 2024
No Reliable Standards Exist for Driving While High
Blood-alcohol tests often aren’t really conclusive when it comes to determining whether a person is too impaired to drive. Many people who are over the legal limit are probably perfectly fine to drive, even if doing so...
Apr 30, 2024
Dog-Friendly Dining and Cat Cafes in Honor of Pet Week
If one’s best buddy is a furry, ball-chasing bundle of energy commonly known as “my dog,” and one’s appetite leans to beer, burgers and beyond, the East Bay responds. Or let’s say a person wakes up one...
Apr 23, 2024
Soul Searching on Mahawam’s ‘Hot Pressed’
The songs on Hot Pressed, the new EP from Oakland’s Malik Mays—who records and performs under their musical identity, Mahawam—continue to explore the intersection between their inner world and the reality of living in the world as...
Apr 16, 2024
Writer-director Alex Garland faces a tricky dilemma in shaping his new dystopian actioner, Civil War. Just how true to real life does it need to be?
Civil...
Apr 9, 2024
The late, lamented video store culture and its fanatics always make good copy for whimsical news coverage. Even the most hidebound, no-nonsense media outlet seemingly harbors...