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Summer’s here, and the time is right for al fresco dining. At the end of May, Saltbreaker opened The Yard, an outdoor sp...
08/08/2025

Summer’s here, and the time is right for al fresco dining. At the end of May, Saltbreaker opened The Yard, an outdoor space in front of the restaurant. In addition to East Bay sunshine, this more casual venue serves cheeseburgers, beer, cocktails and clam chowder…

Read more by about — open Fri-Sun — at the link in our IG stories, visit eastbayexpress.com or pick up this week’s print copy! 🌞🍔🌭🍟🦪😋😎

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This week’s calendar picks—aka, Social Eyes: Week of Aug. 7-13— features: + + a tribute + + (Just Friends) + blues...
07/08/2025

This week’s calendar picks—aka, Social Eyes: Week of Aug. 7-13— features: + + a tribute + + (Just Friends) + blues benefit + + “The Waiting Period” + + 🎶👏🎭

Get all the deets at the link in our IG stories, visit eastbayexpress.com or pick up this week’s print copy!

Photos:
1) by Kat Nijmeddin
2) courtesy of Eli Sethna
3) by David McClister
4) by Jacob Blicken

A new issue is out on stands today! 📰 🎊And online, of course. 🤖💻This one’s packed, with a little something for everyone…...
06/08/2025

A new issue is out on stands today! 📰 🎊
And online, of course. 🤖💻
This one’s packed, with a little something for everyone… featuring: + + Revive Oakland! + + + + + + Clifton Chenier’s world of zydeco + + + Social Eyes 🎶 🎭🤣🙌

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Joining Paradita, Limón and El Mono, Lucuma stands at the forefront of a Peruvian culinary renaissance in the Bay Area. ...
05/08/2025

Joining Paradita, Limón and El Mono, Lucuma stands at the forefront of a Peruvian culinary renaissance in the Bay Area. Although this is their first restaurant together as both partners and co-owners, Renzo Roca and Garrett Morris aren’t amateurs. For many years, Roca was the general manager at Piqueos, a Peruvian restaurant in San Francisco.

One of the smartest decisions the two made was to bring some members of the Piqueos staff along with them to Oakland. And, with chef Wilbert Ek Tun executing and fine tuning their vision, Lucuma already feels like a vital neighborhood gathering place. While the buzz is still buzzing, reservations are a must...

Read more by about at the link in our IG stories, visit eastbayexpress.com or pick up the print copy today (last day for this issue)! 🇵🇪🍽️😋

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The Bay Area music scene is as alive as it’s ever been, notes Andy Pohl. “But at the same time, there is no money to be ...
05/08/2025

The Bay Area music scene is as alive as it’s ever been, notes Andy Pohl. “But at the same time, there is no money to be made at all.” This isn’t a revelation to anyone who’s paid attention to the local cultural landscape over the past 25 years. The cost of living is high, corporate interests constantly look for innovative ways to consolidate an even bigger piece of the pie and the advent of streaming services has decimated media sales. But this isn’t a story about the grim state of affairs, either.

Despite the mounting odds against creatives living here, the Bay Area remains a persistent hub for new music, lively concerts and a cultural attitude of supporting the local scene. This is in part thanks to the determination of people who believe in the necessity of the independent and the underground. People like Pohl, the founder and one-man force behind Sell The Heart Records, a small label in El Cerrito that seeks creative partnerships with local bands and is about to celebrate its 15th anniversary...

Read more by about at the link in our IG stories, visit eastbayexpress.com or pick up a paper copy today (last day for this issue)! 🎵🎂📰

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The players in Ryli came together when the band’s singer, Yea-Ming Chen, met guitarist Rob Good. “I was just setting up ...
05/08/2025

The players in Ryli came together when the band’s singer, Yea-Ming Chen, met guitarist Rob Good. “I was just setting up my studio at the time,” Good said. “Bobby Martinez, the head of our label, Dandy Boy Records, asked me to contribute a track to Tales of a Kitchen Porter, a tribute album he was putting together for Cleaners from Venus.”

Cleaners from Venus, a semi-obscure band, pioneered the DIY movement in Scotland. “Bobby suggested singing harmonies with Yea-Ming on the song ‘Night Starvation,’” Good said.

“We looked at each other as our harmonies blended, and something clicked,” Good continued. “After the session, I was playing something and she started singing over it. A song called ‘Downtown’ came out of it, so we thought we should start a group. That’s how Ryli happened.”

Read more about at the link in our IG stories, visit eastbayexpress.com or pick up this week’s paper copy today (last day for this issue)! 🎶👋

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This week’s editorially curated calendar picks (aka “Social Eyes: Week of July 31-Aug. 6)feature: and + + + & Frien...
31/07/2025

This week’s editorially curated calendar picks (aka “Social Eyes: Week of July 31-Aug. 6)
feature: and + + + & Friends, + .whittington + + + and 🎶 🎭

Photos:
1) by Joseph Llanes
2) by Selma Shiloni
3) by Geert Braekers
4) by David Robert

This week’s issue is now online and in print! 📢📰🎊Featuring: + + + + + a film review of “Oh, Hi!” + Social Eyes cale...
30/07/2025

This week’s issue is now online and in print! 📢📰🎊

Featuring: + + + + + a film review of “Oh, Hi!” + Social Eyes calendar picks, astrology and more!

Flip through the e-edition at the link in our IG stories, visit eastbayexpress.com or pick up a pretty pretty paper copy and EBX street boxes and stacks throughout Oakland and Berkeley. 😃

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At The Hideout Kitchen & Cafe in Lafayette, chef JP Balingit served hearty American meals. Steak, rack of lamb, fried an...
29/07/2025

At The Hideout Kitchen & Cafe in Lafayette, chef JP Balingit served hearty American meals. Steak, rack of lamb, fried and roast chicken, and burgers. The food at Tropa, his new restaurant, departs from that long list of familiar classics. When he ventured into the dining room to check in on our table, I asked him why he wanted to make Filipino-inspired dishes at this point in his career. He paused, looked me directly in the eyes and stated matter-of-factly, “It was time.”

Like Nelson German’s celebration of Dominican cuisine at Sobre Mesa and AlaMar, Balingit is embracing his Filipino roots at Tropa. The restaurant’s location is easy to miss. Set back from the street, it’s tucked away in the middle of a strip mall, at The Hideout’s original location off of Mt. Diablo Boulevard. There’s al fresco dining galore and a large wooden spoon that doubles as a front-door handle. The inside is compact but spacious enough for diners to find breathing room between the neighboring tables…

Read more by about at the link in our IG stories, visit eastbayexpress.com or pick up a print copy today (last day for this issue)! 🍽️😋

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The Richmond Art Center (RAC) provides photographic glimpses of the progressive movements of the 1960s and ’70s in “Mobi...
29/07/2025

The Richmond Art Center (RAC) provides photographic glimpses of the progressive movements of the 1960s and ’70s in “Mobilize, Organize, Occupy,” an exhibition of the photos of Kenneth P. Green Sr. Green Sr., a young Black Laney College student, captured images of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Laney College’s “March Against Repression,” the 19-month occupation of Alcatraz by Indigenous peoples and the Richmond Black Panther Party rally following the police killing of Denzil Dowell. Green Sr. went on to become the Oakland Tribune’s first Black photographer, a job he held until his death.

Green’s son, Kenneth P. Green Jr., curated the exhibition. He was 12 when his father died in a tragic accident at age 40. Custodianship of the 80,000-plus negatives Green Sr. left behind led him on a journey to rediscover his father and to work through the trauma of his early death...

Read more by Janis Hashe about this exhibition at the link in our IG stories, visit eastbayexpress.com or pick up this week’s paper copy today ( last day for this issue)! 📷📰👏

“Mobilize, Organize, Occupy: Kenneth P. Green Sr.” runs through Sept. 6 at , 2540 Barrett Ave., Richmond. Open Wed-Sat, 10am to 4pm. Free. Gallery walk led by curator Kenneth P. Green Jr. at 11am on July 26.

As Men’s Mental Health Month unfolded in June, conversations around men’s emotional wellbeing began circulating on socia...
28/07/2025

As Men’s Mental Health Month unfolded in June, conversations around men’s emotional wellbeing began circulating on social media. One of the most viral topics is Red Pill ideology—a broad term for misogynistic, anti-feminist online subcultures. While much of the backlash comes from feminist voices condemning the harm these spaces inflict on women, criminologist researchers like Sarah Daly are now highlighting a less examined perspective: What draws men into these communities in the first place. Daly argues that understanding the underlying feelings of rejection, loneliness and emotional neglect that attract men to these groups is crucial for addressing the deeper issues fueling the ideology’s growing influence...

Read more at the link in our IG stories, visit eastbayexpress.com or pick up a print copy today. 📰👀

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The four people who write and perform as Galore came together as a band naturally. They are Griffin Jones on rhythm guit...
25/07/2025

The four people who write and perform as Galore came together as a band naturally. They are Griffin Jones on rhythm guitar and vocals; Ava Rosen on bass guitar and vocals; drummer, percussionist and vocalist Hannah Smith; and lead guitarist and vocalist Ainsley Wagoner.

“Dirt,” the band’s second offering, will be released July 25. The 10 songs on the album were collectively written and arranged by the band over the course of the last year…

Read more by j. poet about at the link in our IG stories, visit eastbayexpress.com or pick up this week’s print copy! 🎶

The record-release party takes place on Saturday, July 26, at 8pm at , 2174 Market St., San Francisco.

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