East Bay Express

The East Bay Express, established in 1978, is a weekly newspaper located in Oakland. It caters to the communities of Berkeley, Oakland, and the East Bay area of the San Francisco Bay. The newspaper is distributed every Wednesday across Alameda County and certain areas of Contra Costa County.

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Celebrate summer fun across the East Bay

1 week ago | eastbayexpress.com | Samantha Campos

Summer arts and entertainment come in all sizes, from small-scale, invitation-only experiences in intimate venues to large events shared with hundreds of people. The East Bay offers options in multiple genres: theater, visual art, music, dance, film, comedy, literature and a hybrid category we’re calling “Family/Experiential.” Many programs are free or low-cost and designed for multigenerational audiences and visitors.
Craft community pivots from fairs to empowering creatives

1 week ago | eastbayexpress.com | Samantha Campos

When Phoebe Sherman, founder and CEO of Girl Gang Craft, sat down to wrap up her books for 2024, she faced a tough decision. One that snowballed amid lingering challenges with venues and revenue from the end-of-year crafts fairs. Letting go of her team was a difficult but necessary decision for Sherman, who built Girl Gang Craft around helping women and marginalized creatives navigate small business ownership.
Moving monument honors Japanese-American survivors and descendants

1 week ago | eastbayexpress.com | Samantha Campos

A shameful chapter of U.S. history is being memorialized, and its survivors and descendants honored. The Ireichō: Book of Names is a 1,000-page volume, compiled by Duncan Ryuken Williams, which contains the names of 125,284 Japanese-Americans forcibly removed to concentration camps by the U.S. government during World War II. The use of “internment” is no longer used, as it refers to the detention of enemy aliens during wartime, which those incarcerated were not.
Josiah Flores laughs at the pain

1 week ago | eastbayexpress.com | Samantha Campos

The follow up to Awful Feeling, singer/songwriter and guitarist Josiah Flores’ debut EP, is Doin’ Fine. “I have an ironic sense of humor,” Flores said. “Doin’ Fine is a witty improvement on the title of my EP. When I was young, my momma told me, ‘At some point, you have to laugh at the pain.’ That stuck with me. It weaves itself into my songwriting and the titles of my records.”Now based in San Francisco, Flores grew up in an evangelical congregation.
Social Eyes: Week of May 29 - June 4

1 week ago | eastbayexpress.com | Samantha Campos

THURSDAY, MAY 29FOLKNever learned to dance the tarantella? Haven’t traveled to Sicily? Missed a chance to witness Sicilian residents in small villages form circles and engage in spontaneous, joyful blizzards of rhythm of movement, or professional dancers perform slow ritualistic steps and gestures dating back centuries? There’s good news! When Sicilian-American songstress Michela Musolino picks up her tamburo—a frame drum—and lifts her voice in song, attendees will be transported.
Daytrip Counter reopens on Telegraph Ave

1 week ago | eastbayexpress.com | Samantha Campos

Chef Finn Stern didn’t ask me to leave Daytrip Counter, but the thought must have crossed his mind. On the fourth day of service at the restaurant, Stern stopped by our table to ask how the meal was. We were sharing an array of vegetable-forward side dishes, but we’d barely touched the rotisserie chicken. It’s the central concept upon which the rebranded Daytrip has staked its culinary bona fides. When cut into, the chicken was pink and red down to the bone.
Free Will Astrology: Week of May 28

1 week ago | eastbayexpress.com | Samantha Campos

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The strongest, most enduring parts of China’s Great Wall were the 5,500 miles built during the Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644. One secret to their success was sticky rice, an essential ingredient in the mortar. The resulting structures have been remarkably water resistant. They hold their shape well, resist weed growth and get stronger as time passes. I hope you will find metaphorical equivalents to sticky rice as you work on your foundations in the coming months, Aries.
Tropa Magica brings psychedelic ranchera to Oakland

2 weeks ago | eastbayexpress.com | Samantha Campos

For those not familiar with the sights and sounds of Tropa Magica, just imagine if the ghosts of Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain spiked the mariachi band’s cerveza with top-notch LSD at a quinceañera. Tropa Magica gives the listener a perfectly crafted combination of Peruvian cumbia guitar rhythms with 1990s grunge and a psychedelic twist—plus, “a dash of 1980s sitcom dad jokes thrown in,” says David Pacheco, the band’s guitarist and lead vocalist.
Ciel Sessions return to ignite at Studio Zero

2 weeks ago | eastbayexpress.com | Samantha Campos

Studio Zero feels as if it could host an intimate fashion show or be a multimedia art gallery at first glance. As the crowd makes its way through the nondescript grey entrance of Ciel Creative Space on this Thursday night to the event space complete with a speakeasy bar, a chandelier displays a figure walking then running and next transforms into an array of water falling. Bay Area native Julissa Leilani, takes the stage to a packed room of roughly 100.
Vese tells a tale of two coasts

2 weeks ago | eastbayexpress.com | Samantha Campos

It’s not every day one finds a Bay Area rapper who prefers hand-rolled cigars and bleeds orange and blue for the New York Knicks. But Vese, born Jason Anthony, isn’t concerned with expectations. A Bronx native now living in Oakland, Vese’s music reflects the duality of his upbringing: the golden-era boom-bap of East Coast hip-hop colliding with the realities of present day Bay Area life.