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Oakland Local
May 22, 2012 - 7:39am
If City Attorney Barbara Parker has her way, demonstrators assembling to protest in Oakland are going to have to make sure they leave their "tools of violence" at home before they come out to march and assemble in Oakland. For Parker, this means everything from sticks and shields to paint canisters...
Oakland Local
May 22, 2012 - 7:37am
Are you a Bay Area entrepreneur?
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Oakland Local
May 22, 2012 - 7:35am
Truck going between Oakland and Alameda - via the Posey Tunnel.
Photo credit: flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/7233183294
Oakland Local
May 22, 2012 - 7:25am
The Oakland-based company Solar Mosaic promises a “disruptive” and potentially lucrative incentive to crowdfund solar energy projects this summer.
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Oakland Local
May 22, 2012 - 7:25am
What's happening with tech innovation around Oakland this week? Some big news - and some small - but all worth a read:May 24: BAAMA morning meet-up focuses on mobile data collection technologies
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Berkeleyside
May 21, 2012 - 7:19pm
BPD Chief Michael Meehan: was part of a 10-officer strong search for his son's iPhone on Wednesday January 11
Late on the afternoon of January 11, an estimated ten Berkeley police officers, several of them from the department’s Drugs Task Force, knocked on front doors in a residential...
Berkeleyside
May 21, 2012 - 4:55pm
Grilled cheese chain The Melt to open on Telegraph [Grubb St SF]
Berkeley citizens’ group, Council try to curb debt [Chronicle]
Berkeley Rep announces summer classes [Broadway World]
All I wanted was for Alice Waters to feed me [New York Times]
Bears prepare for Italy tour [Cal Bears]
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Richmond Confidential
May 21, 2012 - 4:17pm
City and school district officials joined more than 100 residents and students to officially open the new facilities at J.O. Ford Elementary School in Richmond on Saturday, including new classrooms and playgrounds and modern, colorful facade. “When our kids can go to a first-class, world-class...
Berkeleyside
May 21, 2012 - 4:00pm
The awards ceremony featured a special dance performance by John Muir third graders.Photo: Mark Coplan
For 29 years, fourth and fifth graders from throughout the Berkeley Unified School District have expressed themselves through the annual Art, Poetry & Essay Contest sponsored by the Berkeley...
East Bay Express
May 21, 2012 - 3:31pm
The Progressive Opportunities Conferenceshowcases the best work of nonprofits, companies, unions, activists, and government leaders; provides invaluable discussion on some of our most pressing economic issues; and provides us with new information and tools to actively participate in creating...
Berkeleyside
May 21, 2012 - 3:00pm
Is the West Berkeley Plan principally designed as a way to get more revenue to support a bloated City structure and remunerate developers? Barbara Gilbert, a self-described “chronic Council observer,” believes so, and argues in an Opionator column published today that the city is...
Richmond Confidential
May 21, 2012 - 12:51pm
Poetry comes from the heart, and whether that heart is imprisoned by the mind or cold steely bars, what's scribbled down on paper can make life-changing differences. That's the message 19 young Richmond poets spoke about at the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts Sunday afternoon.
Oakland North
May 21, 2012 - 12:45pm
Chabot Space and Science Center, America’s largest public telescope facility, was the vantage point of choice for viewing the annular solar eclipse in Oakland this weekend, as more than 450 astronomy enthusiasts and families thronged the hilltop observatory to see what astronomers say is the first...
East Bay Express
May 21, 2012 - 12:39pm
This is weird. Metal Sucks is reporting that a Panama-based company called World Digital is suing 80 individuals for illegally downloading East Bay metalcore band All Shall Perish's last album, This Is Where It Ends, without the band's permission.…
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East Bay Express
May 21, 2012 - 12:26pm
Do you have a pet? Do you have a funny/sad/poignant/heroic story about said pet?…
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East Bay Express
May 21, 2012 - 12:06pm
Did someone anger the gods of Chinese cookery? How else to explain the spate of kitchen fires that have knocked out three of the East Bays better Chinese restaurants all heavy in my personal rotation in a little over a year?
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Berkeleyside
May 21, 2012 - 12:00pm
The Himalayan Fair at Live Oak Park has been a Berkeley fixture since 1984. Photo: Hannah Long
This weekend, Live Oak Park came alive with the Himalayan Fair, a two-day celebration of the art, food, and culture of Tibet, Nepal, Pakistan, Burma, and India, among other countries.
Berkeley resident...
East Bay Express
May 21, 2012 - 11:07am
The Express won eight awards, three of which were first place, in the San Francisco Peninsula Press Clubs Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards, the winners of which were announced at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Foster City on Saturday, May 19.
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Oakland North
May 21, 2012 - 11:00am
Oakland’s first annual Murmurama — a multi-venue celebration that mixed Chinoiserie with the avant-garde, baroque, cubist, or monochrome — challenged the San Francisco Fine Art Fair Saturday by luring hundreds of art enthusiasts to the East Bay for a night of open galleries and performances
Berkeleyside
May 21, 2012 - 10:00am
Members of the Vermont Avenue North Neighborhood Association confer as part of emergency drill on Saturday. Photo: Nancy Rubin
Did you get a little more ready for the Big One on Saturday? Did you join in Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) across Berkeley in disaster preparedness exercises...
Richmond Confidential
May 21, 2012 - 9:46am
More than 120 people crowded into the parking lot of the Neighborhood House of North Richmond around noon Friday for music and food. They also learned more about the Men and Women of Purpose, the new community-based nonprofit a that offers programs aimed at reducing violence, recidivism,...
Oakland North
May 21, 2012 - 9:00am
Through a nationwide marketing campaign and the Family Radio media platform, Oakland-based preacher Harold Camping convinced thousands of people that the world would end on May 21, 2011. As we approach the one-year anniversary of his failed prediction, reporter Megan Molteni takes look at the...
Oakland Local
May 21, 2012 - 7:31am
Did you catch it? Sunday's solar eclipse offered an amazing view.
Photo credit: flickr.com/photos/72302708@N00/7239417364
Oakland Local
May 21, 2012 - 7:27am
What were the most read stories on Oakland Local this past week?
Here's the list of what you found most newsworthy from the 30-plus articles and community opinion pieces we ran on Oakland Local.
Youth, Education For Transgender Youth, Oakland Murder Hits Close to Home: Reflections on Brandy Martin...
Oakland Local
May 21, 2012 - 7:16am
By the Oakland Local Editorial TeamSlideshow by Eric Arnold
Eastside Arts Alliance presented the 12th Annual Malcolm X JazzArts Festival on Saturday, May 19, 2012 in San Antonio Park, Oakland, CA. This annual event has become a community institution and thousands of Oaklanders turned out to...
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