Author: kid oakland

These faces make me think of  so many things… friends, co-workers, classmates, people I have known here in the Bay Area who came to the city to make their way in the world….people I might someday have...

That much is true. I’m currently playing the first video game I’ve purchased in years: Winning Eleven 8…a Japanese Soccer Sim….and before that, last January I guess, I finally completed Final Fantasy X, a...

River Hall was a dorm for misfits, rebels and outcasts on 114th Street across from St. Hilda’s and St. Hugh’s private school for girls and boys. Under the labyrinthine dorm policies of Columbia College of Columbia...

We Democrats, we Progressives, have…and I hate this term but use it anyway…a “nuclear option” too.  Everybody knows it…and folks joke about it from time to time, but maybe as we slide into...

The Great American Music Hall is one of those venues that with its combination of gilded ambiance, storied history and spooky atmosphere….creates a kind of off-the-grid node, a super-charged creative space, that adds...