East Bay Yesterday

11/21/2025

Hey, San Francisco - get your own aircraft carrier!

Alameda’s USS Hornet Sea, Air, & Space Museum wants to raise anchor and depart the East Bay.

11/12/2025

"A man who couldn’t move his arms or legs changed laws, architecture, and society’s view on people with disabilities..."

If you were born after 1990, it might be easy to think that the world has always had wheelchair ramps, closed captions, and bathroom stalls for people with disabilities. But none of those things existed until a few decades ago – and they all had to be demanded. Until a group of confrontational act...

11/11/2025

New episode dropping tomorrow! Subscribe to the podcast if you want to hear about the rise of the disability rights movement...

11/04/2025

This is a few days late but the East Bay Yesterday award for Best Costume goes to...

10/31/2025

I finally went inside a building I'd been walking by for years, and I was not disappointed...

I finally checked out a building I’d walked past for decades – I wasn’t disappointed by what I found

10/29/2025

This makes me so angry...

The Oakland Police Department says it is working with the FBI’s Art Crime Team to investigate the burglary.

10/29/2025

I'm doing a Q&A with the author of this book on Saturday...
https://www.bookpassage.com/event/alex-werth-loop-black-sonic-politics-oakland-ferry-building-store #

10/27/2025

I love Oakland, but this city doesn't do a good job with it's historic properties...

Oakland refuses to renew the lease of a preservationist group.

10/17/2025

Don't miss this incredible new exhibition at Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive...

Get Tickets You can also purchase gallery tickets in person at our admissions desk. “Without any formal training in embroidery or weaving, I often became the subject of ridicule, with people jokingly asking whether I stitched my works with my toes instead of my fingers.” —Lee ShinJa Lee ShinJa...

10/15/2025

What needs protection – and what needs to change?

Everyone has opinions on the Bay Area’s problems with housing, transit and public infrastructure, but Darrell Owens digs deep into the historical roots of these issues on his Substack “The Discourse Lounge.” When Darrell is analyzing a topic like gentrification, he doesn’t just start in the ...