There’s a large old Victorian boarding house, now an artist’s communal living space, in East Oakland that always makes people stop and stare when they go by. It has climbing roses, decoratively painted steps, taxidermy […]
[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 […]
“Man,” yes, my neighbor’s real name, was a man-child in all respects. He was always serious and rarely smiled, even when we played happily for hours. We were young, feral children running wild without […]
My neighborhood – the Fruitvale – is the heart Oakland’s District 5; the sense of community and culture are undeniable as you walk down International Boulevard from Fruitvale Avenue up to High Street. Eloteros, paleteros and […]
As I walk down this residential street in East Oakland, I notice how the front yard of every house is green. There are no lawns in this working class bedroom community, but the young weeds […]
Jingletown is a small neighborhood in East Oakland adjacent to Alameda, next to the 880 Highway near the Fruitvale BART station. Local lore tells us this was once a working class, Portuguese neighborhood where people […]
(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 […]
It’s not the election of Trump. It’s the murder of Martin Luther King. It’s not presidency of Trump, it’s the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy. It’s not the rhetoric of Trump. It’s […]
It can be hard to imagine what the Fruitvale neighborhood was like 100 years ago. Originally named for orchards of cherry and apricot trees, the fertile soil, once rich from the Sausal and Peralta Creeks, […]
A night full of promise 7 p.m. Oakland Voices staff and a couple of community correspondents gathered in the East Bay Times foyer, found a space and learned that pizza was ordered; we chatted, and […]
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