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 December 2009

December 2009

 

December 2009, Volume 6, Number 7

December Features

The First Family of Gospel Music

by Lee Hildebrand (Photography by Chris Duffy)

I’ve been through so many storms in my life,” Lynette Hawkins Stephens wails in robust contralto tones at August’s Art & Soul Oakland festival. The 40-voice Love Center Choir answers her with...

December Departments

In the Mix

by Rachel Petkewich

Take in Dinner, A Movie and the Universe

Out on the Town

by Mary Lee Shalvoy

Find Local Events Here

Taste of the Town

by Derk Richardson(Photography by Mitch Tobias)

In Oakland’s most ambitious new gallery, the walls are bare and the art appears on plates.

Traditions

by Susan E. Davis(Photography by Illustration by Julie Goonan)

Christmas is the biggest holiday with more than 20,000 lights strung around the house and the decorations placed carefully around the yard.

From the Editor

by Judith M. Gallman

Green Business