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Nicasio, CA · Arts & Culture
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You Can Play More Than 100 Pinball Machines All Day At This Nostalgic California Museum
There’s a museum in Alameda, California, where the exhibits talk back, light up, and occasionally swallow your ball in the most infuriating and delightful way possible. The Pacific Pinball Museum is not your average cultural institution, and that is absolutely something to celebrate. Let’s start with a simple truth...
Alameda Post
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Triumph Scraps Oakland Arena Show, Cancels Rest Of 2026 Tour Over Health Scare
Triumph's comeback tour has hit a wall. The Canadian arena-rock band announced Friday it is canceling all remaining 2026 Rock & Roll Machine Reloaded tour dates, including a Dec. 8 concert at Oakland Arena, after what the band called sudden and unexpected medical circumstances affecting the group. The band did...
sfstandard.com
Gold Rush history meets Netflix cult classic at this $25M Gothic mansion
In the 120 years since 1001 Vallejo was built for a gold magnate, the 9,545-square-foot Gothic mansion has been home to bohemians, soldiers, a department store heir, and a Nobel Prize winner. More recently, fans of the Netflix cult hit “The OA” have made so many pilgrimages to the home,...
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KTVU FOX 2
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Money B on growing up with the Panthers and using new tech as self defense in the music industry
The first time I heard a Digital Underground song I was in Texas, a wayward teenager, missing my home in the Bay Area, and just missing the Bay Area entirely… completely. I turned on the radio to hear:. “So you’re freakin’ (freakin’), the furniture’s squeakin’ (squeakin’)/She’s tweakin’, sayin’ that...
The Spun
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LaRussell: Built From The Backyard
LaRussell Dwayne Thomas did not arrive here by accident. The Vallejo, California rapper built his name show by show, freestyle by freestyle, long before any major label came calling. He worked in aerospace manufacturing, raised a daughter and quietly created one of the most documented rises in independent hip hop. Now, fresh off a Super Bowl performance and a newly signed deal with Roc Nation, LaRussell sat down with Rolling Out for a wide ranging conversation about legacy, community and what it means to do it all on your own terms.
riffmagazine.com
REVIEW: Gorillaz change their stripes at Oakland Arena, with some help from locals
OAKLAND — Near the end of Gorillaz‘ Wednesday night show at Oakland Arena, De La Soul’s Pos introduced the band’s second-to-last song. “There’s a lot of things that make us want to feel bad about what’s going on in the world,” the MC told the cheering crowd. “I love that this song has this recipe, this laughter, that just makes you know that, ‘yo, everything’s all right.'”
Mandatory
ABC’s News10 Reporter Leaving After 4 Months, Reveals Reason
An ABC station in the Albany market is losing one of its newer reporters after only four months. He says a new opportunity convinced him to move on, and viewers have just a few days left to see him on air. Alex Berger is leaving News10 ABC Alex Berger will sign off from WTEN-Channel 10 […] The post ABC’s News10 Reporter Leaving After 4 Months, Reveals Reason appeared first on Mandatory .
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Best Bets: Oakland Museum of California, San Jose Jazz, Wake the Dead, Elim Chan, ‘The Marriage of Figaro’
Freebie of the week: Acclaimed Japanese interactive/media artist Masaki Fujihata’s latest project goes behind one of the darkest chapters in American history to examine how photographs impact viewer’s knowledge and memory. Those interested can view the results of that effort for free this Sunday in “BeHere/1942: A New Lens on the Japanese American Incarceration,” showing now through Dec. 27 at the Oakland Museum of California.
Porterville Recorder
Review: World’s bestselling virtual band has real world problems in Bay Area
OAKLAND, Calif. — Gorillaz were back in the Bay Area on Wednesday night (Oct. 28), performing a generous two-hour show for a completely packed house of some 14,000 fans at the Oakland Arena. The trek marked the 25 years since the world’s most successful animated band released its landmark...