Enjoy the photo gallery for our weekly series, The Pulse of Oakland. This week’s featured ZIP code is 94607. The area includes the waterfront, Chinatown, West Oakland and the Port of Oakland. Oakland North reporters...
Four years ago, people danced in the streets in front of Everett and Jones BBQ Restaurant in Jack London Square. They embraced loved ones and high-fived total strangers. The news cameras rolled, and non-reporters became...
A growing number of food stamp recipients are using their benefits at Oakland farmers' markets. But profits from such transactions could decline if a proposed $16.5 billion cut to the federal food stamp program passes...
The Night Light lives up to its name. The brand new watering hole, which opened its doors on Broadway in Jack London Square about two weeks ago, is a bright spot when the sun goes...
On the first Friday of every month, the Oakland Metro Operahouse becomes the rendezvous of some of the wildest wrestlers in Northern California. They call it Hoodslam. It’s not exactly a wrestling tournament, it’s their...
Historic tall ships The Lady Washington and Hawaiian Chieftain have returned to Oakland's Jack London Square for nearly two weeks of tours, sailing activities and educational programming.
At the Eat Real Festival in Oakland’s Jack London Square on Saturday afternoon, crowds of people gathered on the waterfront, queuing up for $4 miniature sweet-potato pies and $5 citrus pork sandwiches on organic, brick...
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 London Square for the third annual Eat Real Festival this...
Meet the next watering hole in our new bar series, The Nightcap: Beer Revolution has 47 beers on tap-all craft, "no Bud Light or Stella," says co-owner Fraggle.
There are many legends at Heinold’s First and Last Chance Saloon, which opened in 1883 and is the oldest bar in Oakland. Some are easier to prove than others.
Fuel-free forms of water sports like paddle boarding, rowing and kayaking can provide surprisingly breathtaking ways to travel, explore and exercise in Oakland’s own backyard.
Bring a blanket and sit underneath the palm trees as you listen to Soundwaves, a new outdoor live music series on the waterfront of Jack London Square. It continues tonight with San Francisco Latin band,...
This Weekend in Oakland
Looking for something fun to do? Community events and activities for the weekend of May 17-19, 2013.