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Local basketball star returns home for unexpected shot at NBA
Jeremy Lin’s basketball career began just a few miles away from Stanford in a Palo Alto YMCA gym. Now Lin’s star is rising as a new signee to the Golden State Warriors–but he hasn’t made it yet, he...
View ArticleOp-Ed: Liberty and Justice For All…Unless You’re Oscar Grant
In the early morning hours of Jan. 1, 2009, Oscar Grant was shot in the back by a police officer while allegedly resisting arrest on the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). Grant, a black Bay Area resident,...
View ArticlePostal Service may close several branches near Stanford
With an expected budget deficit of $9.2 billion for the fiscal year, the United States Postal Service (USPS) is considering closing a number of offices, including 114 in California, several of which...
View ArticleL.A. band Local Natives light up Oakland audience
Local Natives have come a long way. Five years ago, they were selling knives to housewives by day and masquerading as rock stars at night. Fast-forward to Wednesday night: the L.A. band played a...
View ArticleChange, Inequality, and Indifference in Silicon Valley, Part I: When the...
This column is the first part of a multi-part series. The next segment will be released in two weeks. An earlier version of this piece appeared in the Dish Daily. There are two men standing in front of...
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Cops and Robbers skillfully provides insight into one Oakland cop’s perspective
Jinho “The Piper” Ferreira. Photo by Jim Dennis, courtesy of Cops and Robbers. A lone man stands on an empty stage. The lights come up as he begins to tell his story. It’s personal, it’s political,...
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Victor Wooten as impressive as ever at Yoshi’s
Though the bass guitar is not the tool of choice for flashy musicians, the few masters of its solo performance have won great devotion from fans of the instrument. Known for his masterful slap...
View ArticleHow to end a riot
In 2009 in Oakland, 2014 in Ferguson, and now earlier this week in Baltimore, people have taken to the streets — or sat down to write — in an effort to make things better. And, so often, the time...
View ArticleFood deserts, hunger and obesity
The United States is known for high rates of obesity, and although obesity is caused by the overconsumption of food, hunger is a major problem in the US as well. These two issues are often found in the...
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Behind the mask: A closer look at Keith Ape and the state of Asian rap
Keith Ape performing in Oakland in December. (Courtesy of Yeji Jung) Closing out an explosive year, the Korean rapper Keith Ape continued his first American tour with a gig at Venue, a small nightclub...
View ArticlePark: Saying goodbye to Beast Mode
Who could possibly have the gall — the sheer attention-seeking audacity — to announce his retirement in the middle of the fourth quarter of a Super Bowl in which he isn’t playing? Well, for the second...
View ArticleRosas: Kawhi Leonard’s my pick for MVP
At the free throw line in Game 5 of the 2014 NBA finals, LeBron James reached the charity stripe during a pinnacle final stretch of the first half with his Miami Heat down by six, when the King saw...
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Q&A: Rachel Fong ’21 on her Youtube career and cookbook deal
Rachel Fong ’21 spends her weekdays as a computer science student and her weekends working from home as a YouTuber on the channel Kawaii Sweet World, which translated from Japanese means “Cute Sweet...
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