19 things to do in Oakland, including so much early-weekend art awesomeness that you may need Sunday and Monday to recover, May 2 – 8 Meg Bertoni May 1, 2014 Arts & Culture, Development, Education, Environment, Food, Identity, Justice Oh, Oakland, you fabulously art-infested metropolis! You have been waiting for this first Friday and Saturday in May for so long that you've crammed...
Want bike lanes on Telegraph Avenue? Attend a planning meeting Susan Mernit April 18, 2014 Development 1 Comment Representatives from the City of Oakland's Transportation Planning department are hosting a series of open houses to solicit feedback on proposed...
27 things to do in Oakland, only 3 of which definitely involve Easter eggs, April 18 – 24 Meg Bertoni April 17, 2014 Arts & Culture, Development, Education, Environment, Food, Identity, Justice Sunday is, of course, Easter. That means there are some Easter-y things to do this week. If you like decorating eggs, or even Easter hats, knock...
Where the dogs are–or will be–in Oakland Susan Mernit April 11, 2014 Daily Brief, Identity 5 Comments Oakland's had 5 fenced-in dog parks for a while, but the rules against bringing your dog to local city parks have been pretty stiff. This past week,...
29 things to do in Oakland where you will by-golly learn things and you will like it, April 4 – 10 Meg Bertoni April 3, 2014 Arts & Culture, Development, Education, Environment, Food, Identity, Justice Did you think you were going to get through this week and not learn a dang thing, Oakland? Pah! The odds are decidedly against it. Just try not to...
JUHU BEACH CLUB: Bollywood Bliss in Oakland’s Temescal District Foodapprecianado April 1, 2014 Food By Angela Lazear. Cross-posted from the East Bay Food Scene. When I was a kid, my babysitter, Carol Neill, would tell us that if we behaved all...
Oakulture: “Queendom” responds to ‘rachet rap’ and ‘hoodrat R&B’; OIFF offers a platform for developing Oakland’s indie film scene Eric K Arnold April 1, 2014 Arts & Culture Formerly held at Berkeley’s La Pena, “Queendom” came to Oakland for the first time this year. Produced by “Vinyl Mama” DJ Zita, a popular...
Month-long Group Photo Taken at Temescal Art Gallery now online Smokey's Tangle March 30, 2014 Arts & Culture, Community Voices Smokey’s Tangle, an artist-run gallery in the Temescal neighborhood, was invited to take over Temescal Alley's Interface Gallery for a...
Emeryville, Occupation and Civic Duty (Community Voices) shoshonej March 19, 2014 Community Voices, Identity 1 Comment If you follow politics, it's interesting to note that Earl Warren, the famed Supreme Court justice who presided over 1954's Brown V. Board of...
14 ways you’re talking about Oakland in 2014 Susan Mernit March 10, 2014 Daily Brief, News 3 Comments We're 2.5 months into 2014 (but who's counting?). Oakland Local's published more than 300 stories during that time, but there's a specific set of...
