http://oaklandnorth.net North Oakland News, Food, Art and Events Sat, 25 May 2013 19:01:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Oakland North (www.OaklandNorth.net) is a hyperlocal news site covering politics, crime, events, arts and entertainment in Oakland, California. Our Oakland North Radio podcast offers free, downloadable audio stories covering the local community. Oakland North is a project of U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, and our audio podcasts are produced in cooperation with the school's radio program. With support from the Ford Foundation, graduate student reporters at the school are creating focused news outlets to concentrate on different parts of the Bay Area. You can find our sister sites, covering San Francisco's Mission District and the city of Richmond, California at www.MissionLocal.org and www.RichmondConfidential.org. Our goals are to improve local coverage, experiment with online and digital media, and listen to you -- about the stories and features that most interest you, the issues that concern you, the information services you want, and the reporting you’d like to see undertaken in your own community. Please feel free to contact us at staff@oaklandnorth.net. Happy listening! Oakland North no Oakland North staff@oaklandnorth.net staff@oaklandnorth.net (Oakland North) Oakland North oakland, california, food, bikes http://oaklandnorth.net/wp-content/themes/oaklandnorth/images/itms/oaklandnorth-itms.jpg http://oaklandnorth.net http://oaklandnorth.net/2012/06/18/festival-celebrates-juneteenth-location-new-phat-beets-market-and-plans-for-a-collective-kitchen/ http://oaklandnorth.net/2012/06/18/festival-celebrates-juneteenth-location-new-phat-beets-market-and-plans-for-a-collective-kitchen/#comments Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:09:30 +0000 Theresa Adams http://oaklandnorth.net/?p=80337 Saturday’s celebration combined the re-opening of Phat Beets Produce farmers market at its new location, the opening of a new on-site community kitchen collective and the observance of Juneteenth, a US holiday honoring African American heritage and commemorating June 19, 1865, the day many slaves in Texas learned they had been freed by the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.]]> http://oaklandnorth.net/2012/06/18/festival-celebrates-juneteenth-location-new-phat-beets-market-and-plans-for-a-collective-kitchen/feed/ 1