Casey Capachi is a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. A proud Bay Area native, she has enjoyed working on stories at KTVU Channel 2 News, ABC7’s 7 On Your Side (KGO), the Contra Costa Times, and NBC Nightly News and the TODAY Show. Her work has appeared in print, radio, broadcast, and mobile form in such publications as The Bay Citizen, SFGate, The Plain Dealer, KCSB 91.9 FM, among other places. She is a 2012-2013 Kaiser Institute of Health Policy Journalism Fellow.
She loves covering the burgeoning arts scene in Oakland as well as health and the environment.
She lives to travel and has studied abroad at the University of Cambridge and Shanghai University of Finance & Economics. She is constantly searching for her next favorite food truck.
Some Adult Day Healthcare Centers in Alameda County that were initially relieved to hear that their state funding would not be entirely cut, thanks to...
After two years of being threatened with complete funding cutoffs from the state, some of California’s adult day health care centers are finally seeing a...
Oakland North caught up with The California Honeydrops to talk about their unique soulful gospel, second line New Orleans-style second line jazz, blues, swing and...
“Love, respect, care, responsibility, honor, and peace”—that’s the Warrior’s Code that East Bay youth are being taught at Destiny Arts Center as part of the...
A new suite of rooms at Oakland Children's Hospital is furnished with bright bedspreads, comfortable couches and chairs, kid-sized furniture, and a refrigerator stocked with...
Sara Davis Buechner, an associate professor of piano at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, established her success early in her career. She joined...
On Saturday, at the Oakland Zoo's Snow Building, families reunited with the doctors and nurses who cared for their premature babies at the Kaiser Permanente...
The Oakland Hills Fire may have started on the ground, but the Eucalyptus trees surrounding people’s homes in the Oakland-Berkeley Hills helped it burn more...
As Mayor Jean Quan fielded reporters’ questions on Friday about the clash between police and protesters earlier this week, she was suddenly drowned out by...
With a wag of her tail feather, Oakland East Bay Symphony violinist and stand-up comedian Dawn Harms wooed the crowd of elementary school students at...
Souley Vegan, located at Broadway and 3rd Street in downtown Oakland, conjures up a sense of Southern comfort with murals of jazz artists like Louis...
The scent of locally-raised barbeque meat, organic Asian Fusion cuisine, and many other tasty bites cooked by dozens of food trucks is wafting over Jack...
This Weekend in Oakland
Looking for something fun to do? Community events and activities for the weekend of May 17-19, 2013.
