Taco truck owners targeted by criminals, organize defense plan
Following a late night shootout at a taco truck earlier this month, food vendors are organizing to respond to a surge in violent robberies of...
Dylan Bergeson
Arts and Culture Reporter
Dylan Bergeson is an arts and culture reporter for Oakland North. As an undergraduate, he designed an interdisciplinary degree around war reporting in Palestine-Israel. Dylan filmed, edited and produced an award-winning documentary, "This Body is a Prison," in 2006. After graduating he worked as a wildland firefighter and pedicab driver for several years. He interned as a personal research assistant to Todd Haynes during pre-production for the HBO miniseries "Mildred Pierce," starring Kate Winslet. Dylan hopes to continue working as an independent documentary filmmaker with a focus on conflict and popular movements in the Middle East.
- Email: dylan.bergeson@oaklandnorth.net
- Twitter: @d_bergeson
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Stories by Dylan
At American Steel Studios, artists showcase Diamonds in the Rough
By Dylan Bergeson Posted
In one of many formerly abandoned warehouses in post-industrial West Oakland, a community of artists has taken over. American Steel Studios sits on a six-acre...
As a prologue to the Occupy port blockade, protesters Aquapy Lake Merritt
By Dylan Bergeson Posted
In advance of Occupy protesters’ coordinated attempt to forcibly close seaports along the West coast, a breakaway group of Oakland activists decided to "Aquapy" Lake...
The camps may be dispersed, but the art of Occupy Oakland lives on
By Dylan Bergeson Posted
Occupy protesters throughout the nation managed to create an informational campaign that went globally viral for months. Now, as activists scramble to build a phase...
Sorrowful ceremony honors transgender people who died in past year
By Dylan Bergeson Posted
Oakland joined the Transgender Day of Remembrance memorial this past week, with a mournful roll call honoring more than 200 transgendered people who died in...
Community art collective condemns Occupy Oakland-related vandalism
By Dylan Bergeson Posted
The Community Rejuvenation Project (CRP), a nonprofit best known for large mural projects throughout Oakland, released a declaration on Tuesday decrying property destruction during last...
Improv, vulgarity, stage battles, a random badger–it’s the weird Tourettes Without Regrets show
By Dylan Bergeson Posted
Tourettes Without Regrets is a monthly performance extravaganza of lewd audience contests, dirty haiku battles, and onstage improvisation. Reporter Dylan Bergeson takes a turn as...
Marine flies in from NJ to take part in Occupy Oakland protest
By Hasan Dudar, Posted
As protesters trickled out of the Port of Oakland Wednesday night, after Occupy Oakland demonstrations shut down business at the port, scores filed into a...
Occupy Oakland: Tuesday’s events captured on video
By Dylan Bergeson and Byrhonda Lyons, Posted
The aftermath of Tuesday's Occupy Oakland eviction escalated into a street confrontation in the city's downtown, with tear gas and multiple arrests. The story unfolds...
Saturday’s Oakland protestors filling the streets — video
By Dylan Bergeson Posted
After police served Occupy Oakland campers an eviction notice last night, demonstrators took to the streets, marching in a circuit around Lake Merritt this morning,...
The destructive path of the Oakland hills fire
By Dylan Bergeson and Tasion Kwamilele, Posted
The map shows the spread of the Tunnel Fire and infrared imaging of the burning hills taken by NASA's DART satellite. The NASA Ames Research...
Claremont Avenue DMV and neighbors meet to plan new park after tree removal
By Dylan Bergeson Posted
DMV officials opened up the Claremont Avenue office on a Sunday afternoon yesterday to meet with local residents who were angry about the agency's decision...
Community actors fighting the odds: West Oakland’s Playaz’ race toward opening night
By Dylan Bergeson Posted
With four days to opening, a cast juggling day jobs and family crises, and a budget with zero to spare, veteran West Oakland theatre director...
Eat Real food festival kicks off in Oakland this weekend
By Dylan Bergeson Posted
The third annual annual Eat Real Festival’s organizers hope the event is so much fun you’ll forget it’s reshaping your assumptions about food. The free...
Fairview Park residents rally to restore stone pillar
By Dylan Bergeson Posted
On a normal day in Oakland, most passing drivers probably wouldn’t pause to think about the pairs of stone pillars marking the entrances of four...
Oakland’s ‘Great Wall’ hosts off-the-wall dance troupe
By Dylan Bergeson Posted
In celebration of Bandaloop's 20th anniversary, the troupe is debuting their latest work, Bound(less), this weekend, calling the event a hybrid of “the technology of...
