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Martina Chavez-Young builds a yoga community rooted in accessibility
For an outstanding example of the value of transferrable skills, look no further than Martina Chavez-Young.
The founder/owner of Richmond’s Gaia Yoga, voted a 2025 “Readers’ Pick” for the best yoga studio in the entire East Bay region...
Grand Opening Bakery draws dedicated weekend crowds
It’s not breaking news to acknowledge we’re living through a golden age of East Bay pop-ups. Pop-up bakeries in particular are setting up their temporary tables and stands almost every week. They’re forming symbiotic mutually beneficial relationships...
Asawa’s art revealed in SFMOMA retrospective
In a fourth floor gallery at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, two women stand transfixed. Gazing upward at a hanging sculpture made with galvanized steel wire and lit by a diffuse spotlight that casts a...
Channeling an indomitable spirit
At 95, Dolores Huerta could rest on her laurels with no reproaches. Labor leader, tireless fighter for immigrant rights and civil rights, as well as feminist,...
West Edge Opera Presents Its Summer of the Supernovas
Cellist Jacqueline du Pré died at 42 of complications from multiple sclerosis. But during her brief, brilliant life, she was “a supernova,” said Marnie Breckenridge, the...
Jewish Community Center opens expansive Rockridge campus
Ice cream should definitely be served and jazz music should fill the air at the grand opening of the Jewish Community Center of the East Bay’s...
Love Local: Welcome to the Best of East Bay 2026
We know what we like. And—hopefully—we know what we stand for. In the East Bay, it’s often hard to separate the two. That’s why, I think,...
