by KRISTINE WONG
The first time Amie Kim heard traditional Korean drumming, the beats went straight to her heart. At 20 years old, the Korean adoptee — raised in the Minneapolis suburbs since the age of 2 — had never been exposed to Korean culture before.
As she watched and listened to the Korean drum troupe perform [...]
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Korean Americans find roots in traditional drumming
November 22, 2008 – 1:25 am
Opponents Kaplan, Hamill vying for at-large council seat
October 29, 2008 – 10:39 am
Kerry Hamill and Rebecca Kaplan, the candidates dueling for the At-Large City Council seat, describe their vision for Oakland–citing the Temescal Pool and Piedmont Avenue as examples to emulate. Click here for the story.
Door-kicking burglary suspects nabbed after hills pursuit
October 29, 2008 – 10:19 am
By ISABEL ESTERMAN
OCT. 28 — A police chase through the Oakland hills ended yesterday with the arrest of two men police say may be connected to burglaries throughout the Bay Area–including a rash of recent Montclair break-ins in which homes’ front doors were kicked hard enough to force them open.
Oakland police said officers apprehended Chas Langley, 24, [...]
Coming soon to a BART station near you: noise, dust and earthquake safety
October 14, 2008 – 10:51 pm
By BAGASSI KOURA
As the busy holiday season nears, North Oakland residents and business owners can expect an added hassle as Bay Area Rapid Transit officials embark on a yearlong earthquake retrofit project.
Sometime between Thanksgiving and the New Year, construction workers will descend on the area around the Rockridge BART station and begin a makeover that [...]
Ethiopians in Temescal see hope in Obama
October 7, 2008 – 2:08 pm
By KRISTINE WONG Photos by BAGASSI KOURA
OCT. 7 — As one of the oldest Ethiopian restaurants in Oakland, Asmara is a popular gathering place for Ethiopians in Temescal’s business district. Tonight was no different, as the Telegraph Avenue restaurant and bar drew in a steady stream of Ethiopian men who watched the second Presidential [...]
New prosecution team aims at “gateway crimes”
October 6, 2008 – 4:39 pm
By MAGGIE FAZELI FARD
SEPT. 29 — Against the backdrop of Oakland’s highly publicized homicide rate, City Attorney John Russo introduced a new crime-fighting team this morning–a group of three city prosecutors charged with investigating crimes like disorderly conduct, graffiti and cockfights, in hopes of improving quality of life for residents all over Oakland.
“These crimes [...]
Official pleads for fall immunizations, despite “misinformation”
October 1, 2008 – 3:36 pm
By MAGGIE FAZELI FARD
Renee Cheney-Cohen, the coordinator of Alameda County’s immunization program, says the words with conviction. The phrase is her mantra as she reaches out to community groups, organizes free immunization clinics and works through the busy back-to-school vaccination season, insisting to parents that just because a disease isn’t common doesn’t mean it’s [...]
County’s food bank now needs virtual food, too
September 24, 2008 – 5:53 pm
By SAMSON REINY
The warehouse of the Alameda County Community Food Bank is a center of constant activity. Every day, delivery trucks bustle in and out of loading zones as workers drop off grocery deliveries from growers and discount sellers, volunteers sort and package food items, and employees from local nonprofit agencies go “shopping” for [...]
Sports fields strained by understaffing, overuse
September 23, 2008 – 9:45 pm
The renovated Raimondi is a start–but Oakland kids’ sports fields are often big expanses of ankle-twisting ground squirrel holes and dirt. Click here for the story.
City Council to consider increased parking fees
September 23, 2008 – 6:41 pm
By MARTIN RICARD
SEPT. 23 — Over the summer, some North Oakland residents were furious with the city when they unexpectedly got tickets for parking their cars in front of their homes after they had already paid to renew their residential parking permits.
Rockridge residents still unhappy with Safeway expansion
September 23, 2008 – 2:27 am
Plans for ambitious supermarket reconstruction are being rethought as trouble neighbors and local business owners; . Click here for the story.
Oakland Democrats focus on local elections
September 22, 2008 – 10:50 pm
By BAGASSI KOURA
Sept. 22 — As the California Democratic Party works on playing a larger role in the battleground states for the presidential election, Bay Area Democrats opened Sunday a new Oakland campaign office that will focus on local races.
“We want the Obama supporters to get involved for the different propositions that we support, and also [...]
At North Oakland’s Civicorps, “working green” is part of school
September 21, 2008 – 11:44 pm
story and audioslides by LINNEA EDMEIER
Sept. 21 — Reading, writing, arithmetic and recycling? For students of Civicorps Elementary School, in North Oakland, Saturday’s Coastal Cleanup Day wasn’t just another day at the beach. It was another day of fulfilling Civicorps’s mission of “participating in the life of the community.”
At Saturday’s event, Resek, a third [...]
New sports complex opens in Berkeley
September 10, 2008 – 11:13 am
By MELANIE MASON
SEPT. 10 – Plenty of people were eager to talk about Berkeley’s new sports fields complex. Mayors and city officials from five East Bay cities – Berkeley, El Cerrito, Emeryville, Richmond and Albany – lined up on Saturday to address the crowd of two hundred onlookers who came to celebrate the grand [...]