Alessanda Chesley has a job she loves, but lost her employer-provided health insurance in August. If she lived in San Francisco, she’d be eligible for Healthy San Francisco, the city’s health care program for the uninsured. But she lives in Oakland.
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December 21, 2009 – 9:58 am
The graffiti canvas: A modern medieval manuscript?
December 15, 2009 – 3:51 pm
In this video, leading artists working on pieces in Oakland’s DeFremery Park at 18th and Adeline Street earlier this fall give a beginner’s lesson on graffiti aesthetics and explain how their art derives lessons from the medieval masters.
“What is justice?” Inside a death penalty trial
November 24, 2009 – 8:14 pm
In 2001, Christopher Evans murdered two people at 85th Avenue and International Boulevard in East Oakland, setting him up for either the death penalty or a sentence of life without parole. This week, a jury of his peers would return a verdict on his fate. A look at what they considered and what they decided.
Graffiti artists do battle at DeFremery Park
October 14, 2009 – 11:35 am
Twenty four of the most talented graffiti artists from California, Chicago, Hawaii and New York battled in West Oakland last Saturday.
Green Day’s rock opera hits home
October 12, 2009 – 12:56 pm
Midway through the rock opera “American Idiot,” the main character Johnny, his rebel girlfriend Whatsername, and an ensemble of urban youth belt out their message of isolation in the city: “My shadow’s the only one that walks beside me, my shallow heart’s the only thing that’s beating, sometimes I wish someone out there will find [...]
Council bows to protests, rolls back parking hours
October 7, 2009 – 8:24 am
Amid calls for civility and compromise, members of the Oakland City Council apologized last night for their handling of unpopular parking hikes and voted to roll back meter hours from 8:00 pm to 6:00 pm.
In a six to one vote, the council passed a rollback proposal from two weeks ago, with the recommendation that the city recoup a reported one million dollars in lost revenues though parking and other endeavors—including a crackdown on the misuse of handicapped parking permits and the sale of new billboard space.
On horseback, complete with rhinestones, Oakland Black Cowboys hit downtown
October 4, 2009 – 11:11 am
Cowboys? In Oakland? Locals hit the streets with their trusty steeds and ten-gallon hats for the Oakland Black Cowboy Association’s annual parade. Story by Paige Ricks/Oakland North
At Sankofa Academy, fathers know best
October 2, 2009 – 4:39 pm
Concerned dads are stepping up and getting involved at Sankofa Academy, a small school that’s making big strides toward addressing Oakland’s student achievement gap. Story by Jake Schoneker/Oakland North
Slain student, a taunted outsider, was fighting hard to grow up
September 13, 2009 – 10:56 pm
17-year old Desiree Davis had spent her childhood excluded and taunted for never quite fitting in. “They gave her a real hard time her whole life,” said her mother, Dru Ann Davis, in an interview at her home this weekend. A Hurricane Katrina survivor, born blind in one eye, Desiree was working to find new strength and identity in Oakland before she was killed last week in a drive-by shooting. Story by S. Howard Bransford/Oakland North.
Local Parks Will Suffer From Proposed Budget Cuts
June 9, 2009 – 10:24 pm
By ALEXIA UNDERWOOD
In the murky darkness underneath the 24 Freeway in Rockridge is a little slice of doggie heaven.
On a recent Thursday afternoon, five or six pooches – it’s difficult to keep track – romp inside a large, caged doggie run while their owners chat. The dark, mulched run is not pretty to look at, [...]
The Parkway’s last hurrah
March 23, 2009 – 9:38 pm
By Casey Miner and Tasneem Paghdiwala Raja/Oakland North
For twelve years, Oakland’s Parkway Speakeasy Theater was a community mainstay: a place to grab a beer, park yourself on a couch, watch a cheap movie and catch up with friends.
But like many other small businesses, the Parkway has had a hard time weathering the recession. Last Wednesday, [...]
North Oakland Now: A note on the police shootings
March 23, 2009 – 8:00 am
We’ll have more on this soon, but for now I just wanted to draw your attention to a few new details about the police shooting that took place over the weekend. According to the Oakland Tribune, the suspect in the shootings was a recent parolee trying to navigate a broken system. Last week we profiled [...]
Manifesto: Not your everyday bike shop
March 9, 2009 – 5:57 pm
The bike store Manifesto has a Flickr photo account, “Our customers rock,” which is full of photos of people posing with their bicycles. People smiling standing next to their bikes, slowly riding by, triumphantly raising the bike over their heads — all photos of Manifesto’s customers with their new bikes.
Each photo is captioned with lines [...]
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.”
Off with their heads
February 8, 2009 – 9:37 pm
By Samson Reiny/Oakland North
It was off with their heads-the parking meter heads-that is. At the end of 2007, the City of Oakland replaced its traditional coin-eating car meters with automated payment kiosks in the most congested parking areas, allowing people the convenience of paying for parking time by credit card and cash rather than change. [...]