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Friday, April 19th, 2013

Oakland Social: Where to get your ‘jam’ on

If you follow the local poetry slam scene long enough, you’ll start hearing certain names over and over. They’ll be announced as special not-to-miss headliners or mentioned in passing conversation or sometimes whispered like an underground rumor of an approaching storm: “Jaylee is coming. Jaylee is coming” That was the murmur last week as San

Thursday, April 18th, 2013

Green therapy comes to Oakland’s Fairyland (Community Voices)

Seeing, tasting, touching, hearing, smelling – particularly for kids with special needs, a garden is a wonderland of sensual stimuli. Plants can be used to enhance social, physical and psychological well-being; the therapeutic benefits of garden environments...