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Dec 6, 2024 | richmondconfidential.org | Edith Matthias |Riley Ramirez

The annual Holiday Arts Festival will return to the Richmond Art Center for its 62nd year on Sunday, with over 50 local arts and crafts vendors, live music, food, and art activities to create your own holiday gifts. Everything from ceramics to knitwear will be showcased by artists from across the Bay Area, including many from Richmond. This year, the festival will include the Zine Zone for the first time, spotlighting independent zines, comics and prints.

Nov 26, 2024 | richmondconfidential.org | Edith Matthias |Minahil Arif

Festive music and welcoming smiles filled the parking lot of the Bay Area Rescue Mission’s food distribution center in Richmond Tuesday, where hundreds of people gathered under a gray sky for the annual turkey giveaway. The Rescue Mission, which provides emergency shelter, fresh meals, warm clothing, and support services to the unhoused and those in need, has upheld this  Thanksgiving tradition for over 40 years.

Nov 21, 2024 | richmondconfidential.org | Edith Matthias

Richmond aims to become the first Bay Area city to advance a neighborhood green energy initiative, with plans to convert homes in a pilot neighborhood from gas to electric energy. The Richmond Clean Energy and Healthy Homes Project calls for replacing gas appliances with high-efficiency electric ones in a low-income neighborhood that PG&E would help the city identify.

Oct 30, 2024 | richmondconfidential.org | Edith Matthias |Renee Bartlett-Webber

“Knock knock, is anybody home? It’s SOS,” says Leyla Williams as she approaches one of the many hidden makeshift houses along Wildcat Creek. “Does anyone need services?” she asks, scaling the homemade stairs that lead to the tents and tarpaulin shelters. “I don’t think anyone is home.”This was the second stop of the day for the team at of Safe Organized Spaces Richmond, a nonprofit service provider forunhoused people.

Oct 13, 2023 | dailycal.org | Edith Matthias

Kali Uchis entranced the Oakland Arena on September 26th with a show as smooth as melted butter and seductive as the touch of silk. This was the third performance of her “Red Moon in Venus Tour Pt II,” to celebrate the Colombian-American singer’s third studio album of the same name that was released in March this year.