Oakland artists fear crackdown after Ghost Ship fire
OAKLAND, Calif. — The Ghost Ship is now gone. But there’s The Salt Lick, the ominously named Deathtrap and other converted warehouses where artists are holding emergency meetings behind locked metal doors.
Oakland has long been hospitable to an underground art scene that flourished in its abandoned industrial warehouses and helped put this gritty city on the world’s art map. But now its art and music underground is panicking and bracing for a crackdown.