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Rightnowish episodes

November 22, 2019 Room 302: Home of Oakland’s Own ‘Tiny Desk’
'Off The Table' is a bi-weekly performance showcasing the work of students at the Oakland School of The Arts and modeled after the "Tiny Desk" concerts at NPR.

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15 min
November 15, 2019 Oakland’s Street Sofas and the Bay Area Housing Crisis
Discarded furniture never really caught my eye—but after talking with Jamie Facciola, I notice it everywhere.

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12 min
November 08, 2019 Loving Yourself in the Streets and Between the Sheets
How many sex toys come with personal mantras? At Nenna Joiner's store in downtown Oakland, self-care takes on a whole new meaning.

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13 min
November 01, 2019 Oakland’s Rollerskating Country Singer
With 'Roll Out,' the singer pays homage to the Oakland Rollers, a crew that transforms a Lake Merritt cul-de-sac into a rollerskating rink every week.

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13 min
October 25, 2019 From D-Boys to Dope Art
Oakland native Timothy B. has been putting paint where it ain’t for some time now—and the center of his work is family.

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20 min
October 02, 2019 Introducing Rightnowish
People say the magic of the Bay Area is dimming, that artists are leaving and the unique flavor of the Bay Area is going with it, but the team behind Rightnowish knows that there’s more to that story. To understand it, you gotta keep up with what's going on in the moment, in other words, what's happening right now... ish.

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5 min

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Rightnowish digs into life in the Bay Area right now… ish. Journalist Pendarvis Harshaw takes us to galleries painted on the sides of liquor stores in West Oakland. We'll dance in warehouses in the…