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Jorge Luis Borges's 114th birthday 26 Aug 2013 | 06:58 am
It's Jorge Luis Borges's 114th birthday. Two years ago, I was fortunate to work with the Google Doodle team to provide feedback on the Borges Doodle and write the Google Books blog post explaining the...
African Street Festival celebrates African dance, culture in San Francisco 22 Jul 2013 | 11:19 am
On Sunday, July 21, 2013, the African Advocacy Network (AAN) put on the African Street Festival. This event held in San Francisco's Mission District featured dance performances from local Congolese, G...
Ise Lyfe shows that the story of East Oakland is "Brighter than Blight" 9 Jul 2013 | 10:23 am
"Oakland is Proud" painted on the former Greenside Projects in East Oakland Oakland is often condemned by critics saying that its public schools lack parent involvement and that certain neighborhoods...
Baby Boomers' War on Millennials: Student Loans 3 Jul 2013 | 11:40 am
The author graduating in 2007, unaware that the Great Recession was months away. You can’t read more than a couple columns in a newspaper today without running into an article bashing Millennials--th...
New York's Most Fun Literary Events 25 Jun 2013 | 12:11 pm
Over the past 3 months, I attended every literary event I could in New York City. Outside of work, I averaged attending a few literary events per week, maxing out at 7 events in 6 days the week of May...
Roy Zimmerman Brings His Satire to the Big Apple 12 May 2013 | 04:02 am
Roy Zimmerman is Stephen Colbert with an acoustic guitar. The Northern California singer and songwriter is known for his biting satire on the latest political issues of the day. The left-leaning bard ...
California Magazine publishes interview on the future of printed books 9 May 2013 | 03:07 am
California Magazine published an interview with me in their Spring 2013 issue on why I chose to print and hand-bind copies of Oakland in Popular Memory. In the interview, we discuss the great print vs...
One of the Bay Area's legendary freestyle rappers drops new video 14 Mar 2013 | 08:00 am
Celsius 7, one of the Bay Area's legendary freestyle rappers, just released his latest music video, which is an homage to 80s breakdancing and hip-hop culture. Filmed in Oakland and his hometown of Al...
Watsky's Cardboard Castles is #1 hip-hop album on iTunes! 13 Mar 2013 | 08:57 am
George Watsky's album Cardboard Castles released today shot up to #1 on iTunes, as the best-selling hip-hop album. Watsky is a San Francisco hip-hop and spoken word artist who I interviewed back on my...
March 2013 First Friday and Art Murmur Recap 6 Mar 2013 | 09:58 am
By Joe Sciarrillo The normally vibrant and rambunctious street festival that accompanies Oakland's First Friday Art Murmur was toned-down this past Friday, compared to last month’s event. Due to the ...
