THURSDAY RAP SCHOOLBOY Q After a nearly five-year hiatus, ScHoolboy Q has returned with Blue Lips, an album describing the bittersweet fruits of success: the comforts, the paranoia, the riches ...

New to the hospitality business, Hetal and Dhruma Shah started Sipeos last year as an “online shop of adult non-alcoholic drinks.” As of last month, Sipeos has since expanded into a cafe and ...

These days, nail art has no limits. In Alice Kincade’s experience, anyway. The Oakland-based nail artist began her work in her dorm room at UCLA in 2019 while recovering from a car accident.

California is known for its vibrant entertainment industry and bustling cities. Recently the state has seen a significant rise in the popularity of online casinos, which has become an alternative ...

WINNING PAIR Tim Bluhm and Greg Loiacono front the group and write the songs that make their albums so compelling. The Mother Hips have played their unique blend of music—a freewheeling mixture ...

ILLEGAL BUSINESS Prices of weed have plummeted lately, but that doesn’t mean the differential between legal and illicit is any less stark. When legalization proponents sold voters on Prop.

WITH EASE Curating the anniversary album spanning 50 years’ work, Cockburn says song selection took a mere 30 seconds. ‘It’s all singles that went to radio. There was no choosing involved.

SIMPLIFY ‘To enjoy horror,’ Mattson said, ‘you have to think of the victim as something that doesn’t have complex humanity.’ Set around a “full-contact” house of horrors in mid ...

STARTER The tomato and melon salad. The fresh burrata, lemon cucumber, cilantro and toasted sunflower-seed gremolata weren’t engaged in open conflict, but neither were they speaking to each other.

GOOD VIBES ‘The vibrations of a love song can heal us,’ Powell says. ‘When you’re in a state of deep love, you are the love, as well as the loved one.’ The songs on Mae Powell’s debut ...

TOWN-PROOFING Sadly for urban foresters, Oakland won’t likely see any funding from Newsom’s billion-dollar fire-prevention pledge. Trees provide shade during heat waves, sequester CO2, filter ...

COMFORT If you’re having a particularly stressful or dispiriting day, Lorena Menjivar’s grilled pupusas are the perfect remedy. Every restaurant is home to some form of comfort food.