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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....
June 25, 2024
Paddling Offers Perspective in Open Waters
There’s something in the water in Alameda, and it might be a group of 50 8th graders in kayaks: Sea Trek just opened a...
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April 23, 2024
The Chutneys, Pickles and Pastes of Viks Chaat
“If I were to write a cookbook, it would have the simple stuff that was made at home,” says Amod Chopra, second-generation owner of...
December 27, 2023
Happy Newt Year!
The East Bay has two endemic newt species, which spend the winter searching for a mating pool, and are protected by Tilden Regional Park from traffic during the breeding season.
November 27, 2023
Life is Wild
What humans perceive as one place—one city—can be a jigsaw puzzle of extremely different ecosystems, each with its own risks and opportunities for wildlife....
October 24, 2023
Paddles to the People
By this point in the pickleball revolution, it’s the rare Bay Area resident who hasn’t played the fastest-growing sport in America, or seen big,...
September 26, 2023
Walls of Lava
In the heart of residential North Berkeley lives a cluster of unexpected giants: giant hunks of rhyolite, lava remnants created by volcanic eruptions 10...
June 28, 2023
Best of East Bay 2023 – Recreation
Classic Rock
Exploring the Bay’s explosive history in Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve
Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve is surely the East Bay’s most unique park, with its...