Oakland, California was pretty freaky in the year 1987, and now moviegoers can experience that for themselves with Freaky Tales, the new action comedy coming to theaters this weekend. Written and ...

Videos from KQED Live Watch recordings of recent KQED Live events. Named after Oakland legend (and executive producer) Too Short’s 1987 hit single, Freaky Tales drew so much excitement at last year’s ...

Misogyny and racism get their butts spanked in this bold, messy celebration of the Bay Area in the 1980s. By Jeannette Catsoulis When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film ...

It’s infectious, the love “Freaky Tales” has for the Oakland, Calif. of the mid-1980s. You need not have grown up then and there — as one of the film’s co-writers and -directors ...

The writer-director, together with partner Anna Boden, has produced a self-described “very weird” (no argument here) love letter to his former home in “Freaky Tales.” But this ode to ...