The “My East Oakland” Photo Contest entry deadline on OurOakland.org has been extended to July 8th! Send in your photo of your special East Oakland with a brief description for a chance to win an iPod Nano or Shuffle.

Enjoyed a free first-rate local film projected onto the wall of a bank lately - with free popcorn and live music included? No?! Well, every Thursday evening from June 17 through July 22, beginning at 8 p.m., anyone stopping by 49th and Telegraph can be treated to just that.

Two weeks ago, the East Bay Express’ Bob Gammon wrote an excellent article revealing some odd financial mingling between the campaign of former State Senate leader Don Perata for mayor of Oakland with Mr. Perata’s project to put an initiative on the statewide California ballot taxing cigarettes to benefit cancer research (“The Cancer In The Oakland Mayor’s Race” February 10, 2010). 

Oakland residents and agencies are the first to have access to HELP4U, a new and free interactive web-based platform that locates and connects people to healthcare, job training and childcare services in Oakland and other parts of Alameda County. 

With the economy still struggling and hundreds of thousands of people across Oakland out of work, many

Biofuel Oasis in Berkeley is an all-women worker-owned cooperative and urban resource for folks who want to lighten their ecological footprints and maybe raise a chicken or two.

The Oakland Museum of California is ready to party.

After two years of renovations and expansions, the "Museum of the People” will open its doors on Saturday, May 1, and invite the public in.

While the city of San Jose awaits more money to invest in a ballpark for the Oakland A’s. Oakland is making efforts this week to prevent that from happening. Mayor Ron Dellums and City Council President will speak today at a press conference organized by the non-profit group “Let’s Go Oakland”. The conference will take place at City Hall and scheduled to begin at 11am.

San Jose continues to move forward with its efforts to acquire the Oakland A’s. The city is awaiting a vote this week to approve $4.6 million dollars that would go towards the construction of a ballpark which could be the new home of the A’s once Major League Baseball committee decides whether owner Lew Wolff should move the team.

Establishing a business designed to strengthen community, not bank accounts, can be daunting. Eager entrepreneurs may see family and friends scatter when approached with ideas, logistics and money concerns. The competition for funding can be ferocious as investors look for companies with ballooning profit potential.

As a wilderness guide in New Hampshire, Kyle Macdonald often took kids and adults on their first camping and canoe trips in the White Mountains.

When you enter the downtown Oakland office of Wardrobe for Opportunity, you feel you're walking into an actual boutique. The lobby invites you into a clothing store atmosphere. The before and after pictures of successful program participants, which hang on the walls, make you instantly feel inspired. Along with racks filled with work attire for women and men, the back of the boutique has long mirrors on either side and allows participants to embrace the transformation they see right before their eyes.