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Keila Diehl, Newsletter · February 28, 2018

“Greetings and Visitations”

“Greetings and Visitations” Meet the Artists and Creatures Featured in the New Exhibit at Panorama Framing This week, artists Wesley Timms and Peter Odum (a.k.a. Monkeynaut) are filling The Gallery@Panorama Framing (3350 Grand Ave.) with robots, aliens, and sea creatures doing odd things in delightfully unexpected situations. Their joint “Greetings and Visitations” exhibit is opening […]

Keila Diehl · January 2, 2018

Indian Cuisine, Tibetan Style – Just Grand!

  A Tibetan refugee and an anthropologist sat down to talk about curry, and the conversation transported them from Oakland to Bhutan, India, Connecticut, Georgia, and, finally, back to Oakland. A steaming mug of sweet chai in hand, I followed Tsultrim Dorjee, co-owner of High Peaks Kitchen at 391 Grand Avenue on his journey from an impoverished refugee […]

Keila Diehl · May 23, 2017

This is an Opportunity to Transform, Y’all

An anthropologist went to a town hall meeting at Lakeshore Baptist Church and experienced her first encounter with the Chief of Police of a major American city. Impossibly shiny black shoes, crisp black uniform, four gold stars on each collar, gun, broad stance, hands on hips, red granny glasses. Overheard saying, ‘I love my Mama, […]

Keila Diehl · March 14, 2017

A Moment of Awareness About Migrants, Including Coffee

A biologist and an anthropologist sat down to talk about coffee, and the conversation spread out in ever larger circles from its starting point under a palm tree: the popular Anfilo Ethiopian coffee tent at the Grand Lake Farmers Market, where customers “come in, sit down, chat, and move on.” (Spoiler: there is no “to go” […]

Keila Diehl · February 14, 2017

A Love Poem for Our GrandLake Merchants

On Valentine’s Day, let’s pause to say How much we love the shops we frequent every day. Our neighborhood merchants bring us gifts, coffee, flowers, and bread, Shoes, books, smoothies, yoga, and hipster threads. Thanks for everything you do. Merchants of Grand and Lakeshore Avenues We love you! xxx      

Keila Diehl, Lakeshore - Lake Park News · January 30, 2017

“It Takes a Collage” – Jan. 30, 2017

A sociologist and an anthropologist sat down to talk about retail, and the conversation inevitably spread out in ever larger circles from its starting point: the imminent closure of the colorful Collage Clothing Lounge at 3344 Lakeshore Ave. This sad kernel of a recent conversation between me and Collage owner/sociology major, Amanda Robinson, jumped quickly […]

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