A 21-year-old San Pablo woman riding on the back of a motorcycle in the Oakland hills was killed Saturday when the driver lost control at high speed and collided with a tree, authorities said today.
We pass by the Crown business empire constantly - it’s right on Moraga (map) and you can’t miss it. I always liked the juxtaposition of these two businesses, Crown Wine & Spirits and Crown Cleaners. The free parking is a real draw, too.
However, I didn’t consider the place in artistic terms, until a Walnut Creeker named Kelly (aka WalledIn) snapped the sign when she passed through the Village recently.
So, it’s really tempting sometimes to just dismiss the City of Oakland’s ability to do, well, pretty much anything at all right as non-existent. But it’s important to remember that there are actually some bright spots in City Hall, and one of the brightest is the Art & Soul Festival. The Cultural Arts & Marketing Division does just a bang-up job putting this festival together, and it’s actually one of my favorite things about this town.
I’m reading Blues City: A Walk in Oakland, by Ishmael Reed, and in it, he does an interview with Malcolm Margolin, author of The Ohlone Way. Here’s part of what Malcolm has to say about why birds keep coming back to Lake Merritt: Along the northern Pacific coast the watersheds that supported migrating geese have been […]
A 4-year-old boy died today when he was hit in East Oakland by a van whose driver stopped to check on him and his mother but then abruptly fled the scene, police said. Luis Hernandez Jr. was hit about 2:30 p.m. on the 1300 block of 100th Avenue, said Officer Jeff Thomason, Oakland police spokesman.
While the search for a missing 83-year old woman has widened, the emotional toll on her family has also increased.
The oldest grandson of Yue Mai, missing since Aug. 17, said Friday he was exhausted from the family’s search efforts.
“I feel like I am emotionally drained,” said the grandson, who asked that his name not be used. “There is a roller coaster of emotions — up and down.
You’ve just picked up this newspaper and are likely shocked at the story about 18-year-old Kennah Wilson and her unborn child being shot and killed Friday night. Four others, including two 15-year-olds, were also wounded in the East Oakland shooting.
OAKLAND, California — In a project that would make Franz Kafka grin, a 30-year-old bug has metamorphosed into a snail. The resulting creation, an art car called The Golden Mean, is a golden gastropod that glows in the dark and shoots rings of fire from its feelers. It also seats six comfortably.
Angel-hair pasta still costs $7.95 in Oakland, but now it comes with a cop car every 10 minutes.
Round and round the police cruise on College Avenue, like capellini spinning on a fork. Police - it’s what’s for dinner.
In this part of Urban Youth Harvest, a program of the nonprofit People United for a Better Life in Oakland (PUEBLO), teenagers and young adults from neighborhoods in East and West Oakland are hired for the summer to glean fruit from backyard trees, largely in the Dimond, Laurel and Fruitvale neighborhoods, if residents don’t have the inclination to do so themselves.
The harvest is donated to low-income senior centers in the neighborhoods in which the youths live.
Several gunmen opened fire near an East Oakland street corner, killing two people and injuring six others, police said today.
Related: Pregnant woman and unborn child killed, four wounded in East Oakland shooting, Oakland Tribune
Five years after the school district’s fiscal meltdown and ensuing state takeover, financial experts still can’t seem to pin down the agency’s bottom line during that time of upheaval.
For Oaklanders, Labor Day weekend is a great time to stay home! The Art & Soul Festival features a great line-up including 60-plus music acts performing blues, jazz, culture jam, gospel, latin, hip-hop, world music, and more.
After reviewing the acts, I’m most attracted to the Art & Soul Stage, which will be located at 12th and Clay Street. Click to preview these headliners: The Matches on Saturday, 4:45pm; Indigo Girlson Sunday, 4:00pm; and Stephanie Mills on Monday, 4:30pm.
For a conservative, I do some fairly left-leaning things from time to time. Mass transit is a particular interest of mine, and so I was pretty excited a year and a half ago when I applied for a TransLink card.
The card is supposed to be a universal fare-card for all the Bay Area’s transit agencies. When I got it, the promise was that I’d be able to use it on Bart and Muni in “a couple of months.” As with all things governmental, the truth has been far, far worse.
Hans Reiser was sentenced today to 15-years-to life for the murder of his estranged wife Nina Reiser two years ago.
The sentence handed down in Alameda County Superior Court follows a deal Reiser made to lead authorities to the location of his wife’s body in the Oakland Hills last month.
Initially inspired to enter the world of fashion by her glove-designing mother as a youngster in suburban New York, Babette Pinsky celebrates the 40th year at the helm of her own company in 2008.
Village Bicycle is organizing a rally for the As. Meet at: Lois the Pie Queen: 10am: bring your bike: wear green and gold. From their blog:
Southwest Airlines, the dominant carrier at Oakland International Airport, will cut nine flights at the East Bay’s air hub over the coming months, though six of the cuts are described as seasonal reductions.
Four members of the now-defunct Your Black Muslim Bakery in Oakland pleaded not guilty today to charges that they kidnapped and tortured a young woman last year.
So I’ve had like a dozen people ask me this week why I haven’t written anything yet about the latest plan for ending Oakland’s spate of restaurant robberies from Mayor Ron Dellums and Police Chief Wayne Tucker.
For those who missed it somehow, Dellums says that the problem will not end until we all start running around writing down license plate numbers of all the suspicious looking vehicles we see. The Mayor also made the extremely helpful observation that he thinks people are robbing restaurants because they are “tagets of opportunity.” Um…duh.
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