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September 26, 2024
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When husband-and-wife team Sage and Tari Loring started their arts consultancy agency, Local Edition Creative, the vision for their company wasn’t fully formed. It didn’t matter. They had been sketching it out, year by year, with the...
September 26, 2024
Fitness empowered by the impossible
“When you do aerial, you’re doing something that you think is impossible,” says Drago Nesa, entrepreneur, international circus performer and longest-body-burn-while-hanging-from-their-teeth world record holder. “And when a person can conquer their ability to do the impossible, they...
September 26, 2024
Elizabeth Rosner says listen and learn
Elizabeth Rosner‘s new book, Third Ear: Reflections on the Art and Science of Listening, is by no means a prescriptive, how-to, self-help book. But it could be. Focused on listening and hearing, the Berkeley-based writer remembers and...
August 29, 2024
Sailing against the current
Out of the ashes of a groundbreaking Bay Area music collective comes another group. Musically different but built upon the same creative values, Daggerboard is forward-looking and rooted in tradition. And at the same time, its founder...
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August 29, 2024
Stephen Bruce makes funky art in Richmond
We’ve all seen oil on canvas and pastel on paper, but few have seen acid on copper. That’s the signature medium of choice for local East Bay artist Stephen Bruce. Originally from Sacramento, Bruce now resides in...
August 19, 2024
Ask a Librarian: Albany edition
EBM: Oddest library request you (or a colleague) received from a guest?
BLAINE WENTWORTH (HE/THEY): One of the oddest requests was from a community member who wanted to hold their child's birthday party at the library. They hoped...
July 31, 2024
Which book receives the most pawsitive reviews?
He’s part dog, part man, a champion of justice—and the canine hero of the Fremont Main Library’s most checked-out book.
Since the beginning of the year, readers have checked out Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea...
