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 ...

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 ...

Single-cup brewing is the hottest and most lucrative sector of the coffee market nationwide, but it's also producing massive amounts of trash. In June, Peet’s Coffee & Tea dispatched a truck ...

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.

Local business owners say Yelp offers to hide negative customer reviews of their businesses on its web site ... for a price. The phone calls came almost daily. It started to get creepy. “Hi ...

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The desire to cut down all eucalyptus on UC property in the East Bay hills ignores the tree's beauty and recreational value. The debate over clear-cutting tens of thousands of non-native trees in ...

Fecal transplants are being heralded as a simple cure for a dangerous and growing intestinal infection. But their future is uncertain. The answer to her woes, it turns out, was feces. Oakland ...

Admittedly, the best trends in home improvement during 2020 resulted from being locked up like pandemic prisoners in our homes. Even so, shelter-in-place incarceration and the necessity of clean ...

Growing elk herds are competing with grazing cattle at the national park, raising questions about how best to manage public lands. After being reintroduced to the park in 1978, Tule elk are now ...

The Great Recession may be over, but every night people are sleeping on benches or in makeshift shelters. Here are a few of their stories. After I went out with Vinny Pannizzo, I began to see ...

Leaked documents about the effort to sell a coal terminal to a reluctant city show how the government sausage gets made. Last year’s Oakland City Council election provided supporters of the ...