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December 1, 2025
Hometown treasures abound in the East Bay
They arrive in my mailbox every few days—little seasonal dispatches from the wider consumer world. A department store’s curated wish list for the holidays. A home-furnishing guide urging a spring refresh. Retro patio furniture promising the arrival...
November 30, 2025
Robert Reich’s enduring lessons shape minds and movements
Most people at age 79 do not become film stars or cause the words “vigor” and “buoyant” to spring to mind. Robert Reich is not most people. Throughout his almost eight decades of life, the former U.S....
November 30, 2025
Edible ecosystems grow wildly from shoreline to forest
The Bay Area’s serene landscape is teeming with hidden, edible food. If one knows where to look, they can easily find clusters of fresh mushrooms growing in the forest or sea rocks covered in salty mussels.
Carrie Staller...
October 31, 2025
We celebrate style, in every sense
When we think of style, fashion often comes first to mind. And as of this writing in mid-October, it’s hard not to think of the recently departed Diane Keaton—actress, icon and master of the turtleneck—whose singular blend...
October 31, 2025
Grin and bear it
Multiple East Bay families were disappointed to learn that Heather Taylor had made the tough decision to close Outside School/Teach Outside, the program she created and ran in Richmond’s Alvarado Park. The last camp ended Aug.1, Taylor...
October 30, 2025
Remembering Ann Fagan Ginger
Ann Fagan Ginger’s achievements in a lifetime dedicated to establishing, protecting and preserving human rights and international peace laws are nearly unfathomable.
Born July 11, 1925, in East Lansing, Michigan, the Berkeley-based attorney, writer, educator and civil rights...
September 29, 2025
October brings change and connection
“October,” wrote author Bonaro W. Overstreet, “is a symphony of permanence and change.” She might just as well have been speaking of aging—or what some call the autumn of our lives. Like the blaze of fall colors,...
