Remembering the Dead: A Visit to San Jose’s Hacienda Cemetery
With Halloween and Día de los Muertos upon us, we dispatched a local writer to document her favorite cemetery in the Bay — which features a one-arm burial site.
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Pastiche Is King at Oakland’s Crazy Block Cheesecakes
Get your secondhand dopamine high between bites of smoked beef ribs and latkes.
The type of restaurant I love most is the kind where describing it to another person involves an ever-escalating series of “But wait, there’s more” statements. I feel like a child frantically trying to collect their thoughts as they recount a dream: “And THEN there was a dinosaur. And then we flew on a plane! And then and then—!”
That’s how it feels to describe Crazy Block Cheesecakes, a pure fever dream of a restaurant that opened this past March in Oakland’s Lakeshore neighborhood. Yes, there’s cheesecake, but also a full array of excellent barbecue. And latkes. And dinosaurs.