Hello Bay Area! We just opened up a few new spots for the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour on Sunday morning Tours always sell out, so please reserve your spots ASAP www.berkeleysouthasian.org

Jessica Mitford's life isn't just incredibly fascinating - her persecution by the FBI during the Cold War feels very relevant right now... eastbayyesterday.com/episodes/the...

“The ballroom communist”: How a radical aristocrat changed Oakland eastbayyesterday.com/episodes/the...

I'll be spinning records tomorrow, but if you want to come talk about local history, that's cool, too... www.eventbrite.com/e/read-liste...

I just love @eastbayyesterday.bsky.social and you should too. Liam brings to life places that I've biked by thousands of times and makes me wish I had been paying more attention. A loving embrace for the Bay that leaves you with a mix of FOMO and pride of place. eastbayyesterday.com/episodes/fig...

I highly recommend this episode of East Bay Yesterday @eastbayyesterday.bsky.social Heck, I recommend the whole podcast, but this episode is especially good. Come for the history of garbage collection, stay for the kitchen table storytelling.

If you like reading, being outside, and good music, come to this (free) event I'm hosting on Sunday... www.eventbrite.com/e/read-liste...

If I ever got this hat it would never leave my head

Tickets on sale at biketopia2025.eventbrite.com Support better biking, enjoy great food and drinks, and check out our awesome auction. For fans of @eastbayyesterday.bsky.social .....Liam will be joining as our special guest during the VIP hour. Lots of local goodness to celebrate and learn about!

Sideshow python, hobo kitten, and vengeful turkeys! My review of the Oakland library diorama exhibit... eastbayyesterday.substack.com/p/sideshow-p...

Ah, THIS I gotta see! #365DaysInOakland

This is the best art show in the Bay Area right now

The Oakland Library's diorama exhibit is bananas! My newsletter dropping tomorrow will cover this miniature madness... eastbayyesterday.substack.com

Still a few tix for my boat tour this Saturday... emeryville.fishingreservations.net/sales/?trip_...

About 20 years ago I found "The Ohlone Way" in a used book store and it changed my life. RIP to a great man...

Best response to my Oakland Scavengers episode? A woman sent me this pic of her dad carrying his friend in an old school garbage can. I love my listeners so much!

Hopefully the next owners come up with a better plan...

Garbage history! Episode dropping soon. Listen wherever you get podcasts... pod.link/1158506231

After struggling to recall the names of Delilah Beasley and Ina Coolbrith recently, I went back and listened to @eastbayyesterday.bsky.social's great episodes on each, eastbayyesterday.com/episodes/we-... and eastbayyesterday.com/episodes/you.... Thanks for supporting my faulty brain, Liam.

They really had magazines about everything back in the day. This issue had 68 pages!

I'm selling a bunch of my records this weekend. If you're a vinyl collector, come check this out... www.eventbrite.com/e/treasure-i...

Three years after underground ravers took over the 1920s Beaux-Arts building, the former Greyhound station in downtown Oakland has been purchased by the team behind San Francisco’s Temple nightclub.

Wow… www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

Just a regular photo of Berkeley’s Live Oak Festival in 1969… or proof that Anthony Kiedis is a time traveler??

ICYMI @oaklandreviewofbooks.org wrote about people on my boat tour getting pooped on (by birds, ok!) www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/spilled-bay-...

I really do love filing cabinents

The Oakland Review of Books took the @eastbayyesterday.bsky.social boat tour: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/spilled-bay-...

Hell yeah

Loved the latest @eastbayyesterday.bsky.social episode about La Pena in Oakland, a beloved cultural space that sprang up in response to Chilean activists' recognition that one of the best ways to fight fascism is through slyness, culture and having fun: eastbayyesterday.com/episodes/fig...

Long before the hyphy movement had people ghostriding the whip, the Oakland Black Cowboys were "Riding High"

The longtime Bay Area attorney and activist, known as a champion for social justice and workers rights, led the charge at People’s Park in Berkeley on Bloody Thursday in 1969.

Fighting fascism can be fun: La Peña celebrates 50 years of creative struggle eastbayyesterday.com/episodes/fig...

New episode dropping tomorrow! Get it whenever u listen to podcasts

I can't reveal where this event is happening yet, but here's the view... www.eventbrite.com/e/exploring-...

The headline gives me too much credit, but more importantly, I just wanna give this guy a hug sfstandard.com/2025/06/30/h...

The East Bay Dragons totally changed my perspective on motorcycle clubs... pod.link/1158506231/e...

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I hope someone builds a tribute to Sly Stone (RIP) at the Mid-Century Monster

"History isn’t just data, it’s the feel of a delicately folded letter still smelling faintly of perfume..." eastbayyesterday.substack.com/p/im-buildin...

I'm not trying to sound like a hoarder, but... eastbayyesterday.substack.com/p/im-buildin...

Everyone is always asking about how to "bring back" downtown. Here's an idea: MORE NEON! Do I really need to explain?

“This contest is a unique and creative way to get people to engage with Oakland history...” oaklandside.org/2025/06/02/o... via @oaklandside.org

Happy 80th birthday to John Fogarty. I still remember how confused I was when I learned Creedence was from El Cerrito, not the Deep South.

My home park. I come here and think, "I want to grow old in Oakland." oaklandgeology.com/2025/05/26/s...

Start crafting now! @oaklibrary.bsky.social is doing a diorama contest & I’m hosting Oakland trivia for the event. oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/67edb...

An interesting new episode on 150+ years of history in the San Antonio neighborhood of Oakland with Mitchell Schwarzer

“Not on the wealth corridor”: Why older neighborhoods get left behind eastbayyesterday.com/episodes/not...

Until recently, 60,000 punk records were sitting in an Oakland basement...

Riding into the weekend like ... #ThrowbackThursday