Old friends talking: Paul Mooney Is home for Christmas (Community Voices)
Article by Cecil Brown.
Last updated at Mon, 2 Jan at 8:48am.


    “ I turned on my TV set and saw MC Hammer dancing for some goddam popcorn chicken!”
---Paul Mooney.

 Wanna get through the holidays under the narcotic influence of laughter? Wanna escape from it all - through satire and hilarity?

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Looking for some Sunday fun? Check out Kentucky Fried Woman at Bench and Bar
Blog entry by Susan Mernit.
Last updated at Sun, 1 May at 7:31am.

Want to keep the party going? Or just need a few laughs before Monday hits?

Check out Sunday's Kentucky Fried Woman's Guilty Pleasures - a  night of queer performance celebrating some of our guiltiest pleasures - right here in Oakland.


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Win tickets to Sara Felder's 'Out of Sight' at The Marsh in Berkeley
Blog entry by Susan Mernit.
Last updated at Sun, 1 May at 7:21am.

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Laughter Against the Machine Guerilla Stand-up Comedy on February 8 & 9
Article by Oakland Local edi....
Last updated at Fri, 11 Feb at 9:13am.

Laughter Against The Machine promises to stretch your socio-political mind and tickle your funny bone.

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Play ‘Clybourne Park’ looks at how race matters for one small neighborhood (Review)
Blog entry by Kheven LaGrone.
Last updated at Mon, 7 Feb at 8:29am.

Bruce Norris’s “Clybourne Park” has been called a provocative play on race relations and gentrification. He wrote it after seeing Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun.” 

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Weekend Picks: Things to do and see Jan. 28-30
Blog entry by Tehea Robie.
Last updated at Wed, 2 Feb at 9:30am.

Can you feel that sun? It’s like the universe knew that we needed the reminder.

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Review: Dave Chappelle Live at The New Parish
Article by 38th Notes.
Last updated at Mon, 6 Sep at 8:01am.

I t was another around the block line at Oakland's The New Parish to see the most regular famous person of our generation. The skateboarding, bart-commuting, aloof, shit-talking Dave Chappelle was in The Town again–his second home it seems.

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Interracial discount comedy, more. Daily Brief, April 16, 2010
Blog entry by Susan Mernit.
Last updated at Fri, 16 Apr at 1:46pm.

Hey Oakland, what're you doing this weekend? In addition to all the Earth Day events, there's lots more cool stuff happening in and around Oakland.

Tonight, Oakland Local senior editor Amy Gahran will catch the W. Kamau Bell Curve comedy show at La Peña (3105 Shattuck, Berkeley). Shows at 8 and 10 pm, $22 -- but it's 2 for 1 if you bring a friend of a different race!

Here are a few more things to note from the Oakland Local community calendar...

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