Bay Area water district further limits when you can water

Marin Municipal Water District is taking a more drastic step to conserve its dwindling water supply. The district’s board of directors voted Tuesday night to further restrict when customers can water gardens and landscaping. Under the new ordinance, spray irrigation, which includes watering lawns with sprinklers, is limited to one […]

‘Blindspotting’ brings the Bay Area to the world. Locals may be its toughest critics

Emmy- and Grammy-winning performer Jasmine Cephas Jones, photographed in New York City, reprises her “Blindspotting” role in the film-to-series spinoff. (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times) It’s golden hour and cars are swinging rapturous donuts in a West Oakland intersection as the first episode of Starz’s “Blindspotting” spinoff series, adapted […]

All Black Everything magazine, ABE for short, will support, promote and profile Black-owned business in the Kansas City area

Knowing the struggles facing Black-owned businesses, entrepreneur Trish Mitchell of Kansas City is launching All Black Everything, a digital and print magazine, to shine a positive light and to support local Black-owned businesses. In a time when many Black-owned businesses are struggling, Mitchell, who has a background in finance and […]