DanceAfrica Turns Its (Virtual) Gaze to Haiti
The festival features a film that shows the light and empowerment of vodou, a tradition of danced communication and communion with ancestors and spirits.
The dance troupe Rara Tou Limen, based in Oakland, shot its segment of the film at Black Sands Beach in Marin County.Credit.Luke Atwood Abiol
May 27, 2021, 1:26 p.m. ET
Black magic, zombies, dolls pricked by pins: These might be what most outsiders associate with the Haitian spiritual practice of vodou, especially when it’s misspelled “voodoo.” But DanceAfrica, the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s festival of African dance, wants to show a different side.
Beer Here, Bouquets Next Door: How a Bar Defied the Pandemic
The Times followed the Hatch and its staff in Oakland after the pandemic began. The business not only survived, it’s expanding.
February at the Hatch, a bar in Oakland, Calif., that relied on ingenuity and some good fortune to keep going.Credit.Jim Wilson/The New York Times
March 16, 2021
OAKLAND, Calif. One year ago at the Hatch, a narrow neighborhood bar in downtown Oakland, dozens of unmasked people crowded inside to say goodbye for a while. California’s governor had just ordered the nation’s first effective coronavirus lockdown, and the bar’s staff and regulars thought they wouldn’t be back for weeks, maybe even months.
A 1916 bungalow with three bedrooms and one bathroom, on a 0.1-acre lot
This house sits between the Santa Fe neighborhood in Oakland and the city of Emeryville, about two miles from Bay Street Emeryville, a large mixed-use development with shopping and restaurants. A park with a recreation center and baseball field is a few blocks away, and the headquarters of Pixar Animation Studios is a five-minute drive.
Size: 1,005 square feet
Price per square foot: $875
Indoors: A walkway cuts a path from the street to a front stoop large enough to hold a chair or bench.
The front door opens into a living room with vaulted, exposed-wood ceilings and hardwood floors that continue into a windowed dining room. On one side of the dining room is a door to a guest room, currently used as a home office. Behind the dining room is a recently renovated gray-and-white kitchen with a tiled backsplash, recessed lighting and stone countertops.