Deep in Canyon, part 2
"It wasn't utopia... it was real."
Arts & Culture
Deep in Canyon, part 1
“Paradise with a dash of chaos”
“Getting shot was one of the best things that happened”
Life after an Oakland assassination attempt
“It’s in the DNA of hip-hop”
Tracing the local roots of a musical movement
“This strange monument”
The story behind one of Oakland’s most prominent abandoned buildings
“The freest time of my life”
Richard Pryor’s transformative East Bay experience
“Monsters rising out of the mud”
From industrial wasteland to renegade art gallery
“What about the underdog?”
Dorothea Lange never stopped fighting for freedom
Bruce Lee’s Oakland years
From a legendary fight to a new philosophy
From “one-hit wonder” to “legend”
30 years later, a singer gets to re-live his dream