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While Everyone Else Is Sleeping, East Oakland Is Eating

May 11, 2017 Tony Daquipa

It’s a Monday evening just after 11 p.m. as I pull into the Tacos Los Amigos parking lot on East 14th Street (also known as International Blvd.) I was referred to this taco truck by

A Client’s Choice Pantry in East Oakland Grocery Desert

May 4, 2017 Katharine Davies Samway

I arrive around 10:15 a.m. on a recent Saturday at the Flunder Foundation Word of Mouth Food Pantry located at the City of Refuge United Church of Christ http://www.cityofrefugeucc.org/, which is in a mixed residential

What Will Happen to This Land?

April 26, 2017 Monica Green

“I’m leaving here todayYes, I’m going back home to stayYes, I’m walking to New Orleans” Fats Domino This is the first in a series about how one family is addressing inherited land. Taxes are current

Healthy Food Access within a One-Mile Radius: A Conversation with Shaniece Alexander of OFPC

February 21, 2017 Sandra Tavel

Oakland Voices community correspondents Monica Scott Green and Sandra Tavel interviewed the director of Oakland Food Policy Council (OFPC), Shaniece Alexander, one rainy Saturday afternoon in beautiful downtown San Leandro. What followed was an inspiring, hopeful

A Healthy Corner Market!

February 21, 2017 Monica Green

After 10 days of consecutive rain, it seems like the sun and the whole San Antonio neighborhood were coming out to greet and welcome the opening of the Healthy Corner Store in East Oakland. Music

Newfound Celebrity for Chef Charleen Caabay of Oakland’s Kainbigan

January 13, 2017 Kat Ferreira

There are many ways to define comfort food. Some favor recipes that elicit childhood memories of satisfying home-cooked meals. Others define comfort food as meals that “stick to your bones” or cure hangovers. The hearty

Mandela Parkway: The Day Before Crack Hit. Then and Now.

December 15, 2016 Damu Dailey

“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

Can You Taste the Culture, Art and the Beautiful Struggle in the Fruitvale?

December 14, 2016 Abel Regalado

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

Hasta Muerte Coffee: Miracle on Fruitvale and East 27th Street

November 29, 2016 Kat Ferreira

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,

Friday Mornings at Arsola’s

May 3, 2016 Bill Joyce

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