The Kinfolks Motorcycle Club’s annual Thanksgiving dinner at Palo Vista Gardens is still an hour away but the dinner guests are already gathering. Joanne Berstine, a 35 -year resident of the senior housing residence, is […]
Magic in all its mystery hung, literally, in the air at a recent meeting of the Oakland Magic Circle (OMC). Twelve- year- old Azlan Dubin fanned a deck of cards flawlessly telling me, “I’ve been […]
[slideshow_deploy id=’11545′] As the unsettling sifting of the ashes of the Ghost Ship fire drew to a close Wednesday, three blocks away at St. Elizabeth Elementary School, sixth-grade teacher Adrianna Alvarez led students in a […]
(On the 2nd weekend in October, labor activists, military veterans, musicians, artists, and people of faith from across the US converged on both sides of the US-Mexico border at Nogales, AZ. The action was sponsored […]
The Original Scraper Bike Team mustered at noon on Saturday, June 11 at the 81st Ave Library. Scrapers torqued chains and pumped air in their tires as they prepared to ride to the grand opening […]
Smooth jazz played softly in the background while some 100 supporters gathered June 30 under a bright white tent beside the West Oakland Health Council (WOHC) on Adeline Street near 7th Street. Benjamin Pettus _ […]
http://cpa.ds.npr.org/kalw/audio/2016/04/WEB.AtholPark.mp3 Two tennis courts, enclosed by a chain link fence, sit adjacent to Athol Plaza Park in Oakland, near Lake Merritt. Laila Espinoza is here nearly every weekend. She hangs a canvas on the […]
In the lot tucked between Castlemont High and Center of Hope Church along MacArthur Blvd., three women are pulling down the flap of a pop-up tent. It’s an extra task, one of many, on this […]
Having prayed outside City Hall for the “soul of the city and an end to the housing crisis,” about 60 low- income Oakland residents, housing advocates and clergy filed into the packed March 22 meeting […]
The six- feet high, 30- foot long The Tree of Life mural-on-canvas sweeps across the entrance of the Oliver Art Center at the California College of Art (CCA). A vibrant tree forms the center of the […]
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