For more than 40 years, he was a lawyer and law professor with a side gig as a composer and jazz guitarist, which is his main gig now.

Longtime Montclarion Jackie Corwin invites stressed workers in for 15-minute mediation sessions.

The Oakland writer loves pranks, joking around with kids, and telling stories.

Slow medicine is when a doctor has enough time, and the right kind of attentive, uninterrupted time, to sit with a patient, listen, examine, and get to the right diagnosis and treatment.

Her Witch’s Walking Tour of Oakland shows off the surprising magic of Lake Merritt’s landscape.

Pianist Arturo O’Farrill is at the center of a bona fide Latin jazz dynasty, but he didn’t embrace his family legacy until well into adulthood.

Arif Khatib has devoted the past two decades to honoring overlooked athletes, community leaders, and youth while garnering little recognition of his own.

As Notes & Words approaches, the Piedmont fundraiser, podcaster, and New York Times best-selling author is learning how to say yes and no.

Hidden in the East Bay hills, the Carmelite nuns of Kensington live at the most secluded monastery in the United States.