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Last updated at Thu, 8 Jul at 4:56pm.
Folks were out and about for the latest Oakland Art Murmur on July 2. And we got great pix! Check them out, see if we shot you, and check out the web site for the August event.
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Last updated at Fri, 28 May at 1:55am.
Early this month, an article was published in the Oakland Tribune about hip hop and the impact it has on African Americans. The article was written by Angela Woodall, but it was the author she chose to feature in her story who had some interesting things to say.
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Last updated at Thu, 20 May at 2:59pm.
This is an excerpt from conversation between Derrick Ashong (aka DNA), Melia's Papa, and Navina Khanna in February 2010.
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Last updated at Tue, 18 May at 12:50am.
Whether seeking novel experiences, family fun or comfort food, the Oakland Asian Cultural Center’s Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival 2010 promises a full compliment of arts, food, events and the unique cultural blends for which the Bay Area is famous.
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Last updated at Mon, 3 May at 12:26pm.
The Oakland Museum will welcome back the public on Saturday after a two-year hiatus during which the four-block site was transformed in a $62 million capital improvement campaign. Oakland Local spoke to a few people behind the scenes who are working to reintroduce the museum to Oakland and the Bay Area.
Less than two weeks before the re-launch of the Oakland Museum of California, a controlled chaos is underway.
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Last updated at Tue, 27 Apr at 1:05am.
Next Friday, April 9th, be sure to get your self downtown for one of two incredible and historic performances. Prescott Circus Theatre will be presenting HIGHER GROUND, a stilt dance performance featuring over 50 youth
stilt dancers, each coached in the spirit, history, and techniques of
African Stilt Dancing by Zulu Connections. http://www.zuluconnection.com/home.htm
The stilt dancers are all students of Prescott Circus Theatre and
its satellite programs from
6 Oakland Elementary Schools: Prescott,
Garfield, Parker, Piedmont Avenue, Manzanita, and Laurel.
Higher Ground
Friday, April 9, 2010
TWO FREE performances: 12:00pm: Frank Ogawa Plaza, Oakland City Hall
5:00pm: Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts @ 1428 Alice Street, Oakland
The Prescott
Circus Theatre is an exciting and innovative after school program for
Oakland youth.
Students receive free training and performing
opportunities. The program was founded in 1984 by
Prescott teacher Aileen Moffitt. The goals of PCT are to provide a
culturally conscious educational program promoting
leadership,
performing arts education, skill training, academic progress, and life
experience opportunities for youngsters in
a context that allows them to fully explore their talents and enriches
self-esteem
The program also serves the community by providing
professional-level entertainment by children of color for
audiences
of all ages while representing Oakland youth in a proud and positive
manner.
For more information about Prescott Circus Theatre: www.prescottcircus.org
Zulu
Connections: http://www.zuluconnection.com/home.htm
Please forward this email to others.
For additional info, please call (510) 842-3751.
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Last updated at Fri, 26 Mar at 10:04am.
The Oakland Running Festival is this weekend. There are still some spots open in all races. If you want to run, you can still register -- but not online. Stop by the Expo at the Oakland Marriott City Center Saturday 9am-6pm to register in person and get your packet. There is no registration or packet pick-up on Sunday.
...And do you know where your street closures will be? We've got 'em right here! Plan ahead if you don't want to get stuck. And remember, street closures may affect your biking and transit routes, too.
Speaking of getting around, Sunday March 28 is when the latest round of AC Transit service changes take effect...
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Last updated at Fri, 19 Mar at 12:21am.
Chinese New Year is a time of fireworks, red envelopes and lots of food. In case you missed the party in Oakland's Chinatown this month, you can still get a taste of Chinese culture.
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Last updated at Thu, 18 Mar at 6:52pm.
If you’ve lived in Oakland long, you’ve probably seen them
outside a dive bar or gallery, the skinny-jeaned hipsters with long bangs and
eyeliner smoking in packs, possibly clutching cans of Pabst. For those who
don’t know better, this manifestation of “indie,” or independent, culture may
be as far as the idea goes.
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Last updated at Sat, 2 Jan at 3:46pm.
Last night I spent my first New Year's Eve in Oakland at home with friends in the Temescal neighborhood. Just before midnight, and for quite a while afterward, I heard what I could have sworn were gunshots. A lot of them. From a lot of different directions. But I figured, nah, it couldn't really be.
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Last updated at Tue, 22 Dec at 9:09am.
Oakland composer Steve Kirk didn't dream as a boy of growing up to write the FarmVille theme. But the fact that he did, and that 26 million people log on each day and hear his music as they play, suits him just fine.
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Last updated at Tue, 17 Nov at 8:50am.
Steam junkies of all ages celebrated in West Oakland on Saturday at the “coming out” party for Kinetic Steam Works, a local collective
devoted to steam-powered art.
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Last updated at Sun, 15 Nov at 12:42am.
When Oprah's Angel Network published "The Idea Behind CampCaribe" on their Web site, I was in Las Vegas at a trade show buying for my small Oakland boutique. In fact, I was chatting with a vendor when the light on my Blackberry started blinking and I ignored it for about an hour because I was so focused on what I wa
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Last updated at Thu, 12 Nov at 1:58am.
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Last updated at Sun, 1 Nov at 3:54pm.
Yesterday, Oakland got its spooky on.
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Last updated at Fri, 30 Oct at 9:37pm.
Oscar Servillion, 17, a participant in the YO! Youth Outlook media project, shares his views on the recent gang rape of a 15-year-old in Richmond, CA: What were these "men" who raped the 15-year-old girl from Richmond
doing? They were being "men", the way they are taught by the artists
they listen to, trying to copy their role models, rappers. In our society's ideology, we are told that to be a "man" we have to
be, strong, fearless, in control, and my favorite (sarcasm), "men do
not cry". Meaning that if you do not follow these rules, you're not a
"Man", you're a woman, or anything else -- gay, for one. This is how
females are seen as less of a person than males, and why people of
different sexual orientation are mistreated and judged. Society
is scared of losing control over people. If they lose control,
they're screwed because next thing you know, people start thinking for
themselves and questioning everything...
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