By AYAKO MIE
Safeway supermarkets plans to demolish its Pleasant Valley shopping mall — which at 185,000 square feet is about half the area of the Great Pyramid at Giza — and replace it with one …
More gloomy news for Californians.The employment rate remained 11.6 percent in June. However, the U.S. Department of Labor said Friday that 66,500 Californians lost jobs in June. It was the largest drop in the country.
For those …
By ALEXIA UNDERWOOD
At the River Nile Market in Oakland, which is slightly bigger than a city bus, the shelves are crammed with little bits of Yemen, Sudan, Egypt and Lebanon.
Cans of fruit, meat and juice …
By SHILANDA WOOLRIDGE Undercover work by the Oakland police has cleared the streets of many of the gang leaders,
By SHILANDA WOOLRIDGE Oakland Acting Police Chief Howard Jordan opened the doors of his monthly senior management meeting to reporters.
By SHILANDA WOOLRIDGE It was rockin’ till the cops came knockin’.
By ALEXIA UNDERWOOD
When Mike Kim created the Oakland Facebook page, he didn’t think many people would pay attention to it. “I thought it would be, like, 30 or 40 of my friends,” said Kim.
But that …
By STEVE SALDIVAR
A number of Oakland artists are trying to pass down the tradition of screen printed posters to a younger generation – including its political history. Melanie Cervantes, Jesus Barraza and Favianna Rodriguez
take …
By ALEXIA UNDERWOOD
Tucked away between a Subway sandwich shop and a boarded up storefront on Grand Avenue is Mercury 20, a large, one-room art gallery. And upstairs, hovering above it all, is the Chandra Cerrito …
By SHILANDA WOOLRIDGE The spike in burglaries without forced entry was one of the topics discussed at yesterday’s Neighborhood Council Prevention Meeting.
BY ALEXIA UNDERWOOD
After six years of state control, the Oakland Unified School District resumed local control last week and new Superintendent Tony Smith, an Oakland native, was inducted into office. But what exactly does this …
By STEVE SALDIVAR
The Oakland Council members unanimously passed an Energy and Climate Action Plan late Tuesday night.
The approval by the eight-member council now sends the city to preliminary planning to see how it can reduce …
By AYAKO MIE
Ever since I moved to Berkeley from Japan a year ago, my friend, Josh Allen keeps asking. “How can you survive without a car?” Allen, an associate movie producer, who drives his three-year …
By STEVE SALDIVAR
Mexico defeated Nicaragua 2 to 0. The real game, however, started before the players even stepped on the field. The Oakland Coliseum parking lot was host to the tailgate party, where fans of …
By ALEXIA UNDERWOOD
(Shilanda Woolridge and Ayako Mie contributed to this review.)
The proliferation of Ethiopian and Eritrean restaurants along Telegraph Avenue is one of North Oakland’s less celebrated features. Yet, once you’ve tried it, who can …
by SHILANDA WOOLRIDGE BART commuters said the 25 cent fare raise that went into effect yesterday is unlikely to change their habits, even if they don’t like it.
By STEVE SALDIVAR
Patients and doctors at Children’s Hospital are now meeting Tuesdays at the new farmer’s market that takes place from 2 to 7 in the parking lot.
Jen Cook, a pediatrician there, teamed up with …
The bicycle film festival hits San Francisco this week. Besides watching movies about bikes, there’s going to be all sorts of other fun, like parties, concerts, art gallery crawls and bike games.
Oakland gets its day …
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