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A gathering to celebrate women, community
“We are family, I’ve got all my sisters with me,” blasted out the speakers in the multipurpose room of Lovonya DeJean Middle School Saturday. The popular ‘70s song by Sister Sledge got a crowd of more...
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Weekends in Richmond: Laotians celebrate the New Year
On Sunday, hundreds of people turned out at Wat Lao Rattanaram, Richmond’s Laotian temple, to celebrate the New Year.
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Richmond native’s memories of the great Donna Summer
Donna Summer hit the music chart with the song “Love To Love You” in the mid 1970s. It was a sensuous sound that we had not heard since the late Silvia’s song “Pillow Talk.” Terry Lynn, a Richmond...
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Richmond vocalist brings Bay Area talents to the East Coast
Chantler Townsend, originally from Richmond, moved to New York in 1996 to seek more exposure for his career in music and dance. Now his funk and soul his group New Music Race (NMR) are working hard on...
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Free Healthcare: Zumba
Feet stepped and hips swayed at last Thursday’s free Zumba class in the Iron Triangle. Though the building on the corner of Macdonald Avenue and 9th Street reads “Karate,” this space is the new home...
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Art and soul coming to Richmond this Saturday
Richmond Main Street and the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts will team up this weekend for Saturday’s Spirit & Soul and Richmond Arts in Motion festivals. The back-to-back events will kick...
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Video: Disco single saves lives
Who would've thought that the 1970s disco hit "Stayin' Alive" would one day literally help people stay alive?
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Interactive art makes waves on Macdonald Ave.
An outdoor art exhibit of work by acclaimed new media artist Scott Snibbe made its debut at the Richmond Arts in Motion festival this Saturday. The display consists of four screens that hang in the...
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Oktoberfest brings beer, Bavarian costumes to Craneway Pavilion
The Craneway Pavilion on Richmond’s marina harbor echoed to the sounds of steins clinking, beer pong balls pinging, Bayern Maiden’s guitar twanging and dirndl and lederhosen-clad dancers from the...
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“Miss Richmond” heads to pageants
Alexis Pickins, otherwise known as “Miss Richmond,” will be representing her hometown in two upcoming beauty pageants. The 22-year-old senior at UC Berkeley will compete in Miss Black California Dec....
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Free workshop offers classes in healthy eating and exercise
In a bare classroom at the Coronado YMCA in Richmond, a small group of women—and one man—dance around in a misshapen circle as they imitate activities from running to praying. The instructor, Sonjay...
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2014 Latin American Heritage Day & Music Festival
National Hispanic Heritage Month kicked off on Sept. 14th in Richmond with upbeat music, tasty tacos and bounce houses for kids at a music festival at Restaurante La Revolucion in the Hilltop Mall area.
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National Hispanic Heritage Month celebrated at school board meeting
Dancers and musicians from local middle and high schools spiced up Wednesday's WCCUSD school board meeting. The students' performances were in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month.
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Spirit and Soul festival aims to revive downtown
The seventh annual Spirit and Soul Festival filled downtown with the rhythmic beats of jazz musicians and the enticing smells of fried chicken and barbecue. Put on by the Richmond Main Street...
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Credentials rules leave some East Bay dance instructors unable to teach
Despite being one of the dance capitals of the world, with 73 public and private colleges and universities offer dance majors, for decades there hasn’t been a single-subject teaching credential in...
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Second annual East Bay Dances event will feature Diablo Ballet
On April 17, the Oakland Ballet Company hosts the second annual East Bay Dances Showcase.
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Downtown Richmond shows its heart at Spirit and Soul Festival
8th Spirit and Soul Festival brings live music, food and shop to Downtown Richmond residents.
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In her native Bali, Kompiang Davies was forbidden from singing, dancing or playing any musical instrument. Then she fled to California. The post Kompiang Davies: Bringing Bali to the Bay appeared first...
View ArticleAfro-Peruvian dance in Richmond: ‘We are making sure the tradition is still...
On a cloudy Saturday morning, Carmen Román and her husband, Pierr Padilla, filled the basement of the Golden Gate Library in Oakland with a symphony of sounds, using their feet, hands and traditional...
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