As digital and online movie rentals grow, North Oakland’s in-person movie rental options continue to be shuttered.
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Inside Video Room on Piedmont Avenue.
The last picture show for video stores in Oakland?
August 6, 2010 – 7:25 am
Eight Childhood Development Centers set to close Friday
July 29, 2010 – 10:14 am
Judy Lee has already begun packing her boxes. Full of art supplies and Shel Silverstein books, the boxes sat neatly stacked near the wall of her spacious classroom at the Piedmont Avenue Early Childhood Development Center on Wednesday, a telltale sign of the center’s imminent closure.
A garden tour raises funds for healthy food education
July 26, 2010 – 8:01 am
In the shade of large, leafy lettuce and kale and tall stalks of beans, approximately 150 Bay Area residents met Saturday at the Saint Martin de Porres Elementary School garden to show their support for the nonprofit organization that planted it to give Oakland students a chance to learn about nutrition.
Council approves development plan for Alta Bates Summit
July 7, 2010 – 8:06 am
In a short meeting Tuesday night, the Oakland city council upheld a recommendation from the Community and Economic Development Agency (CEDA) to approve a development project for the Alta Bates Summit Medical Center facility, located at the intersection of Hawthorne Avenue and Webster Street near the 580 freeway.
Jon’s Street Eats brings gourmet grub to street dining
May 26, 2010 – 10:11 am
Jon’s Street Eats is one of a new series of food trucks popping up all over the East Bay serving innovative street food — in this case, gourmet grub like grilled asparagus, butterscotch pudding and panko-coated mac and cheese. As Oakland-based chef Jon Kosorek puts it: “There’s not a lot of places where you can get hand-pulled mozzarella. I would never be able to do a hot dog cart with just boiled hot dogs. I’d go crazy.”
The great human truths: Death, taxes and … laundry?
January 11, 2010 – 11:41 am
Ben Franklin, font of aphorisms, said “In this world nothing can be said to be certain. Except death and taxes.” But there’s one unescapable reality Franklin seems to have missed: laundry.
Sales low but scariness resolute at the pumpkin patch
October 23, 2009 – 9:37 am
The Piedmont Avenue patch is back, even if it’s harder to find than it used to be, and it’s still got the goods: the tongues, the eyeballs, the photos of wicked bulging-eyed children, and Oopy the daschund, who’s in costume too.
Bicycle Master Plan, MacArthur BART project
October 14, 2009 – 7:09 pm
Imagine it’s a warm summer evening after another monotonous day’s soul-crushing workplace tedium. You get back to your North Oakland abode, slip into something more comfortable, and hop onto your fixie bike, fat-tired mountain bike, or tricked-out scraper bike. You cycle down through Emeryville, onto I-80, and over the Bay Bridge to watch the sunset [...]
Safeway Talks Bigger, Piedmont Wonders if it’s Better
June 30, 2009 – 10:34 am
By AYAKO MIE
Residents gathered Thursday at the Chapel of the Chimes Mortuary on Piedmont Avenue for a second meeting called by Safeway officials to talk about the store’s plan to redo the shopping center in Pleasant Valley.
“Obviously, it is a corporate sponsored meeting,” said Eric Edwards, a resident of the Rockridge Manor condominium next to [...]
No golden parachute for stores on Piedmont Avenue
February 9, 2009 – 5:37 pm
Loren Partridge has until February 28 to vacate Cunningham Partridge Gallery and Framing, the Piedmont Avenue business she has run for seven years.
“I’ve seen it coming for months,” Partridge said last Saturday afternoon. “Then January came, and boom.”
New and improved, neighborhood video store prepares for its sequel
January 4, 2009 – 7:09 pm
The Video Room, where everybody knows your name and your favorite movie title, re-creates itself to stay afloat. Click here for the story
Pumpkin patch helps Oakland get into Halloween spirit
October 9, 2008 – 5:34 pm
story, photos and video by KRISTINE WONG
At the Piedmont Pumpkin Patch, Halloween is serious business. Patch owner Jon Goldstein has stocked his grounds, near the corner of Piedmont and Pleasant Valley Avenues, with 15 types of pumpkins and an eclectic assortment of decorations and paraphernalia — and created a haunted house to boot.