When the Cypress Freeway collapsed twenty years ago, one child survived because a Children’s Hospital surgeon climbed into the wreckage, got down on his stomach amid the other emergency workers, and performed an amputation on the spot. The doctor, James Betts, tells the story.
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The UC walkout–A note to our readers
September 24, 2009 – 10:45 am
The Oakland North newsroom is a smaller-scale version of many classic modern-day newsrooms–computers, printers, a fax machine, a long conference table usually littered with coffee cups and reporters’ notebooks–except that it’s inside North Gate Hall, on the UC Berkeley campus. By Cynthia Gorney/Oakland North.
North Oakland Now: The wages of improvement
September 18, 2009 – 5:18 pm
A dispatch from last night’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee meeting, at Oakland City Hall: First, where the sidewalk ends, to quote the late Shel Silverstein, might be closer to home than you think. At the intersection of 29th Avenue and Ford Street in the Fruitvale district of Oakland, along the Nimitz freeway, a half-mile [...]
Avast! Talk Like a Pirate Day draws nigh.
September 18, 2009 – 2:28 pm
by Mary Flynn/Oakland North
Avast me, hearties! It’d be the 19 o’ September, and ye know what that be bringin’? Aye, it’d be International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
September 19th is a holiday you won’t see marked on your calendar. International Talk Like a Pirate Day (hereafter referred to as ITLAPD) is a day when the pirate-enthusiastic [...]
Sign up now for walk against domestic violence
September 16, 2009 – 5:31 pm
Passing on word of a lakewalk for a good cause: the eighth annual Walk Against Domestic Violence, Saturday, October 3. Walkers meet at the Lake Merrit Boat House in Oakland for a Walk Against Domestic Violence. This is a collaborative effort by Communities-N-Concert, and Progressive Transitions, with support from the Alameda County Domestic Violence Coalition. The [...]
$10K reward for Hassani Info
August 17, 2009 – 3:40 pm
Oakland police offered a $10,000 reward earlier this week in their search for Hassani Campbell, the 5 year-old Fremont boy reported missing last week in Rockridge. Anyone with information that might help police find the boy is asked to call (510) 777-8572 or (510) 777-3211.
“Shimtuh” brings help to abused Korean women
December 15, 2008 – 5:06 pm
Trapped by cultural tradition and poor English, some Korean women find Oakland’s Isabel Kang for help escaping domestic abuse. Click here for the story.
Neighbors band against multiplying group homes
December 9, 2008 – 4:54 pm
Golden Gate residents complain the proliferation of group care facilities hurts the neighborhood–and that nobody would try this in, say, Rockridge. Click here for the story.
O.N. opines! On politics, on creepy comedy, on Xma$…
December 3, 2008 – 4:28 pm
In these commentaries, Oakland North writers weigh in on 1) keeping Black Friday in perspective; 2) keeping certain kinds of humor in the back room, where maybe it ought to stay; and 3) how the new secretary of state selection looks through the eyes of a journalist raised in West Africa.
Fast Freddie Rodriguez is that blur on two wheels
December 3, 2008 – 3:06 pm
In training now for the Tour of California, this veteran pro cyclist is one of those whippet-skinny riders who whizzes past you when you’re stuck in traffic. Click here for the story.
“Rock, Paper, Scissors” churns art with recycling
December 3, 2008 – 2:00 pm
The Telegraph Avenue collective, part of this Friday’s Art Murmur, keeps re-inventing itself: gallery, school, champion of re-use. Click here for the story.
AIDS day events offer Oakland sobering reminders
December 1, 2008 – 10:40 pm
by CLARE MAJOR, MAGGIE FAZELI FARD, and SAMSON REINY
Dec. 1 — It was still dark when Josh and Jessica woke up this morning, and there was a damp chill in the air. By 7 a.m., the couple stood outside the MacArthur BART station, each holding a sign printed with an AIDS statistic. Morning commuters [...]
Now 80, marathon runner plans to keep running
December 1, 2008 – 8:05 pm
by BAGASSI KOURA
In a ritual that started years ago, Richmond resident George French wakes up every other morning at 2:30 and runs 3 to 6 miles from his home toward El Cerrito BART, mainly along San Pablo Avenue. “At this hour, it is safe to run,” he says. “The streets are empty. There is no [...]
Local merchants: Black Friday slid by sort of gray
December 1, 2008 – 7:56 pm
by MELANIE MASON and HENRY JONES
Dec. 1–While retail sales the day after Thanksgiving exceeded expectations, most independent retailers here in North Oakland were removed from the spending frenzy of Black Friday.
It wasn’t because of the economic troubles, necessarily—they typically miss out on the action. “Everyone gets drawn away to the big stores,” said Carlo [...]
Kerry’s Kids brings mobile MDs to homeless kids
December 1, 2008 – 1:29 pm
Named after a Rockridge pediatrician who was murdered a decade ago, this free service brings volunteer doctors to children who need them. Click here for the story.
Artist Liz Maxwell invokes nature, math, flight
November 25, 2008 – 7:06 pm
by SAMSON REINY
A few times a year, Liz Maxwell drives from her home in Rockridge up to Calistoga, in the Napa Valley. For the past 40 years, she has walked the scenic little town for inspiration. She’ll bring a point-and-shoot camera and snap everything around her. “It might be a cracked road, moss growing on [...]