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The MacArthur Maze – not for amateur drivers

The MacArthur Maze (formerly known as the Distribution Structure) began as part of the Bay Bridge construction project in the 1930s. Over the years...

CITY OF DREAMS – An Oakland Love Retrospective

From 2000: digital slide projections celebrating folk personalities of our unsung city with 130 images from the worlds of civil liberty, science, a...

King’s Boxing Gym: East Bay Boxing’s Hidden Home

On a dead end street between train tracks and 880 near Fruitvale BART, is where King’s Boxing Gym has made its home for over 15 years. If you had n...

The Birth of the “Just Say No” Movement

On a cold, rainy morning in January 1985, a group of children at Peralta Year Round School in Oakland, California were discussing drugs and peer pr...

Oaklandish Retrospective Poster Campaign

eleven 24″ x 36″ black and white designs of the patron saints and sinners of Oakland, wheat-pasted onto negative urban spaces such as underpasses a...

The Raiders Forever

“When a team plays for a city, it plays for the idea of a team and the idea of a city.” – John Krich, Bump City The Oakland Raiders will not be in ...

Art Rock: The Warehouse Party

Around 2001 you began to see a thriving arts based West Oakland warehouse scene, where noise experimentalism reigned. These bands defy easy summary...

Oakland Rap Tracks Vol. 1

More well documented is Oakland’s contribution to Hip Hop. These tracks were unavoidable during the golden age, when these beats were heard booming...

East Bay Thrash Metal

In the 80’s Heavy Metal music began to get harder & faster, as local bands were inspired by their punk compatriots. The all ages night club ‘Ru...

Oakland’s Nu-Jack Swingles

OAKLAND’s NU-JACK SWINGLES New Jack Swing is defined as R&B or Soul style vocals produced with Hip-Hop style rhythms. It was popularized by a w...

East Bay Punk Rock

The cooperative run Berkeley venue ‘Gilman Street’ was the epicenter of the Bay Area’s thriving punk scene. On any given night there in the late 80...

Tales of the Town Vol. 2

Volume II :: Open your buns… It’s GravyTrain!!! Ricky Powell: Confessions of a Closet Raider Fan, Oakland Funnies, The Hot Grits Project, Subterran...

Tales of the Town Vol. 1

The classic zine, long out-of-print, is now available via free pdf download. So, read it on your computer or print it out to enjoy and share. Readi...