D. Scot Miller

In June of 2017, Oakland was the only major city in California without an LGBTQ Community Center. The absence was baffling when one considers how well-established the community is in The Town, and how statistically distinctly different Oakland’s issues are from those found in San Francisco. “Many pe…

The East Bay’s alt weekly.

The East Bay’s alt weekly.

On Thursday, May 28, a flier calling for “vengeance” in response to the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police made its rounds through the East Bay’s social media channels. It called for a Friday 8pm “Minneapolis Solidarity Demo” at Oakland’s Frank G. Ogawa Plaza, also known to locals as Oscar Grant […]

As protests against police brutality continue in the streets, and are met with more police brutality, many media outlets have churned out anti-racist reading lists to meet the demand created by the tragically-newfound interest in white supremacy and anti-Blackness. Due to, perhaps, the choke-hold that corporate America has on the publishing industry, it seems the […]

The East Bay’s alt weekly.

2022 has been, shall we say, an intense year so far. Even as we continue to endure a virus that has wavered some, while we witness the horrifying details of an attempted coup to overthrow the will of people unfolding before us every week, and women’s reproductive rights are in peril all over the cou…

In August of 2019, EBX sat down with Oakland LGBTQ Center CEO Joe Hawkins and vice president Dawn Edwards, to celebrate two years of a place that almost didn’t happen. Hawkins recalled: “About six years ago, co-founder and current board president Jeff Myers and I participated in the Hands Around Th…

There’s more than just cheesecake at Charles Ferrier’s new bakery Charles Ferrier opened the first location of his Oakland bakery, Crumble & Whisk, in December. He also considered closing the shop shortly thereafter. Starting in 2013, Ferrier built up his cheesecake business at several different Bay Area farmers’ markets. Along with wholesale orders, he was […]