How to Spend Your Last Two Days in Oakland Outside of Time

First, go to a movie at the Grand Lake Theater. Make sure to go to a showing that the organ will play at. Get there half an hour before the listed show time so you can watch the organ rise up out of the place it lives in the floor. The man who’s going to play it is already seated at its bench. He and the instrument rise together, and then they begin.

Sit in the opulence of that movie palace that managed to survive the rise of the multiplex and listen to that organ that sounds more ballpark than cathedral.