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On Old, Danny Brown injects some reality into his revelry

By John Lavanga / A&E Editor • October 2, 2013

Danny BrownOldGrade: B+Sounds like: A Danny Brown album. Period.After nearly a decade of fighting to dig his way out of a life of crime and musical anonymity in the apocalyptic wasteland that is post-industrial...

Riot grrrl gallery and foreign crime-film tops weekly rundown

By John Lavanga / A&E Editor • September 23, 2013

Through Feb. 16, 2014Alien SheMiller Gallery5000 Forbes Ave., OaklandTuesday through Sunday noon to 6 p.m.Admission: FreeDesigned as a retrospective on riot grrrl, the influential punk feminist movement...

Bill Burr ignores critics, focuses on comedy

By John Lavanga / A&E Editor • September 18, 2013

As a comedian, actor and radio personality, Bill Burr has developed a following for his blunt, everyman style of humor. Burr never holds back, going on riffs about his issues with women, American education,...