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Hello Oakland folks, let's chat about book bans and how we can ALL fight against them!
Oakland Public Library@oaklibrary.bsky.social · 19h agoTokuda-Hall, author and founding member and former president of Authors Against Book Bans (AABB), will be in conversation about the current and future threats to our freedom to read, what AABB is doing about it, and how you can help. Register ➡️ https://bit.ly/4fFQ4Ji
"More than 15,000 people in El Cerrito have a Nextdoor account, which is approximately 60 percent of the town’s population" <-- not the only jump scare in this piece.
amy brown@amybrown.xyz · 19h agomy essay about becoming the nextdoor villain of el cerrito drops tomorrow at @oaklandreviewofbooks.org
my essay about becoming the nextdoor villain of el cerrito drops tomorrow at @oaklandreviewofbooks.org
ORB's opera critic, @pauline2k.bsky.social, reporting once again from the front lines of culture, West Edge Opera's production of The Turn of the Screw www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/an-endless-c...
An endless complex
At Oakland's West Edge Opera, Henry James is a sick fuck.
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Between the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org and this—so very much bookish there there in Oakland, CA.
@parapraxismag.bsky.social · 2d agoToday we announce The Psychosocial Foundation’s opening of a therapeutic collective, education space, and bookstore at 1742 Franklin Street in Uptown Oakland.
This review got us there today. What a wonderful experience.
Oakland Review of Books@oaklandreviewofbooks.org · last wk."If you take out the more ponderous historical flourishes, what’s left is a good-versus-evil quest in the shape of a superhero story. What genre better lends itself to comic deconstruction? Stickann thought of Ben Edlund’s parodic superhero the Tick..." www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/when-opera-c...
For the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org, I wrote a vibe report on a wild hot pot of Oakland goofin’ — a puppet parade! www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/puppets-take...
Hey, morning radio listeners, I’ll be on KQED Forum tomorrow at 9am chatting with other booksellers about our favorite books of the summer.
PUPPETS TAKE LAKE MERRITT! Jolene Tarr took the vibes, and reported them, at the Lake Merritt Puppet Parade: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/puppets-take...
Puppets take Lake Merritt
A Joyful Absurdity.
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Join the ORB editors and contributors at Eli's Mile High Club for a party with bookish, drinky fun on August 20th. Free to paying members, suggested ticket price of $15 for everyone else, come and bring a friend: luma.com/6viuhae6
ORB Launchiversary: Always Be Launching · Luma
Oakland Review of Books continues to exist in space and time, and like Oakland, is always becoming. Celebrate with us on a randomly chosen day we've deemed our…
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Among other things, we're going to have a "most inessential book" contest.
Oakland Review of Books@oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 7d agoCome party with us at Eli's, August 20th! Celebrate our LAUNCHIVERSARY! We'll have lots of stuff!!!! luma.com/6viuhae6
Among other things, we're going to have a "most inessential book" contest.
Oakland Review of Books@oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 7d agoCome party with us at Eli's, August 20th! Celebrate our LAUNCHIVERSARY! We'll have lots of stuff!!!! luma.com/6viuhae6
Come party with us at Eli's, August 20th! Celebrate our LAUNCHIVERSARY! We'll have lots of stuff!!!! luma.com/6viuhae6
ORB Launchiversary: Always Be Launching · Luma
Oakland Review of Books continues to exist in space and time, and like Oakland, is always becoming. Celebrate with us on a randomly chosen day we've deemed our…
luma.com
*standing up on the plane* Listen up assholes you're about to learn EVERYTHING about the first McDonalds in Oakland and the necropolitical conjuncture it signifies in general counter-revolutionary capitalism, and why Boots used the site in I Love Boosters www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/dead-at-mcdo...
the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · last wk.*standing up on the plane* ok you Protestant fucks prepare to get scared because I’m about to tell you what’s real. Hail Holy Queen our light our sweetness and our hopes. To Thee to we cry, poor banished children of Eve; to Thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this vale of tears. Tu
This was going to be a vibe report but it ended up being a lot more interesting than I expected. Hats off to all my colleagues at @oaklandreviewofbooks.org for letting me run with it anyway, and for readers who read it www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/dead-at-mcdo...
Dead at McDonald's
Between the Eastmont Town Center and Evergreen Cemetery, a broken down fast food joint is a relic of the moment things went bad in the Deep East.
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Come party with us at Eli's, August 20th! Celebrate our LAUNCHIVERSARY! We'll have lots of stuff!!!! luma.com/6viuhae6
ORB Launchiversary: Always Be Launching · Luma
Oakland Review of Books continues to exist in space and time, and like Oakland, is always becoming. Celebrate with us on a randomly chosen day we've deemed our…
luma.com
This is a great essay on fast food, Huey Newton, Jim Jones, redevelopment and revolutionary suicide. Read it.
Oakland Review of Books@oaklandreviewofbooks.org · last wk.The first McDonalds in Oakland and the building Boots Riley used as Jackie's Chicken in *I Love Boosters*: "Between the Eastmont Town Center and Evergreen Cemetery, a broken down fast food joint is a relic of the moment things went bad in the Deep East": www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/dead-at-mcdo...
*standing up on the plane* Listen up assholes you're about to learn EVERYTHING about the first McDonalds in Oakland and the necropolitical conjuncture it signifies in general counter-revolutionary capitalism, and why Boots used the site in I Love Boosters www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/dead-at-mcdo...
the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · last wk.*standing up on the plane* ok you Protestant fucks prepare to get scared because I’m about to tell you what’s real. Hail Holy Queen our light our sweetness and our hopes. To Thee to we cry, poor banished children of Eve; to Thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this vale of tears. Tu
Hey @bootsriley.bsky.social: give your location scout a raise
Oakland Review of Books@oaklandreviewofbooks.org · last wk.The first McDonalds in Oakland and the building Boots Riley used as Jackie's Chicken in *I Love Boosters*: "Between the Eastmont Town Center and Evergreen Cemetery, a broken down fast food joint is a relic of the moment things went bad in the Deep East": www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/dead-at-mcdo...
The first McDonalds in Oakland and the building Boots Riley used as Jackie's Chicken in *I Love Boosters*: "Between the Eastmont Town Center and Evergreen Cemetery, a broken down fast food joint is a relic of the moment things went bad in the Deep East": www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/dead-at-mcdo...
Dead at McDonald's
Between the Eastmont Town Center and Evergreen Cemetery, a broken down fast food joint is a relic of the moment things went bad in the Deep East.
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Freaky Tales is leaving HBO on August 1, so if you've been putting off reading @zunguzungu.bsky.social's opus on this love letter to Oakland, now is the time: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/freaky-tales...
The most words ever written about “Freaky Tales”
A not-too-short love letter to “a love letter to 1980s Oakland.”
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Our friends at @coyotemedia.org are doing a subscription drive, so support them if you can (even though they outrageously stole our unique and proprietary idea to be a hyperlocal bay area voice that publishes an events calendar and is mad about tech barons): www.coyotemedia.org/email/ad0d0c...
COYOTE Weekly: We're Having a Subscriber Drive!
We're having a big sale!
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