West Craven High School's head football coach Michael Twichell joined HighSchoolOT to preview the 2023 season for the Eagles. Last season, West Craven finished with an 8-4 overall record and a perfect 6-0 record in the Eastern Plains 2A Conference.
April 20, 2021 • Sean J Patrick Carney on the ground in Oakland
5733 San Leandro Street, Oakland, CA. Photo: Kirk Crippens and Torre McQueen. Courtesy of the Oakland Cannery Collective.
WITH FEWER THAN HALF A MILLION RESIDENTS, Oakland’s complex art ecosystem rivals those of cities twice its size. Muralists, art-school grads, experimental musicians, artist-activists, graffiti writers, and Burning Man sectarians live and work throughout Oakland’s deindustrialized shoreline corridor and flatlands. Its DIY cultures are eclectic and often political, owing to the city’s distinctive history of liberation movements, mutual-aid networks, and labor organizing.
Fifteen years ago, Oakland was, relative to tech-gentrified San Francisco, semi-affordable. Today, Oakland artists battle colossal