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Oakland Review of Books, ORB to those in the orbit, is an exercise in counterprogramming. Like Oakland itself, we’re doomed to define ourselves by what we are not, but with a chip or two on our shoulders, we make that into a virtue. What is ORB? As an answer,.
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Into a darkened back room
For several years in early twentieth-century Boston, a young Black man named Thomas McKeller was model and muse to the society painter John Singer Sargent. Today, McKeller's taut physique can be seen distributed among the pantheon of neoclassical deities
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Oakland Review of Books calendar of (not just) literary events, August 18-August 23
Grand Lake Theatre extended the run of Hadestown so you can go watch rhyming myths some more, and they have other movies, including the Anthony Bourdain biopic premiering on Thursday. I am just learning there's a performing arts theatre in the Oakland hil
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More and More, and Everyone Loses
The thing about AI is that there are so many different reasons to hate it. And so when the Musk v. Altman circus came to town a couple months ago, I shut my laptop (plagiarism) and took a bus (carbon emissions) to the a-little-bit-too-empty Oakland downto
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Sunday flowers and a very important celebrity
Since our dog pays rent with discarded hair, we'd been vacuuming all morning. Friends were coming over to spend the night. To liven up our space a bit, I decided to pop out for some flowers. But I refused to go to the one on Grand. Too close, too obvious,
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Do you want a sticker?
When you're approaching a stranger with a pamphlet or flier or a sticker, inviting someone just going about their business to hear The Good Word about whatever it is, you have to fight past the feeling that you're selling them something they don't want, t
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