Fun times at the Actual Cafe!  Here's the Actual Cafe event listings for March. 

Highlights:

Have a package?

Bike messengers will deliver.

In 1994, three bike activists opened Pedal Express to promote clean air living, building on a foundation of cycling, an environmentally conscious alternative to driving cars.

The worker-owned bicycle courier cooperative specializes in regularly scheduled and cargo deliveries.

The city of Oakland Public Works department is planning smoke tests in North Oakland in the coming weeks.

These are tests that are conducted to test the flow of fluid and gas through city facilities, including sewer lines - before winter comes.

Nobody would mistake 64th & San Pablo in the Golden Gate neighborhood of Oakland for 51st and Telegraph in Temescal, but there's no question that in the past 18 months, things have truly improved.