You might already know Oakland fashion designer Amy Sarabi from the 7th season of Project Runway, televised on Lifetime Network. Oakland North’s Paige Ricks caught up with Sarabi for a few questions about inspiration, mentorship, and daring to create something ugly.
Temescal residents voice their artistic opinions about a mural project intended to transform the 52nd Street underpass between Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Shattuck Avenue.
The Black critical mass group, Red, Bike, Green, is a Bay Area urban bicycling group that meets every first Friday of each month to mingle and ride their bikes. The one requirement: you must be of African descent. The group, which began a year ago, started to “improve the physical health, individual economy and local environment of African Americans by strengthening the relevance of bike culture within the Black community,” which is pushed by the group’s founders Jenna Burton, 27,…
Are you looking for the perfect Christmas present? Something unique? If the answer is yes, then Reed Brothers Security, at 46th and Telegraph, is the place where you would find this gift. The store, which specializes in locks and other security devices, has those last few items that you can check off your Christmas list. I’m not personally in a dire need of a stun gun, but to each her own.
The Mayor’s Community Toy Drive, which is sponsored by Mayor Ron Dellums and several council members, began Saturday with a sign-up event.
Astronaut Bernard Harris brings his Dream Tour to Oakland to encourage students to excel in math and science.
What’s your dream zine? Check out our interactive feature for ideas from Oakland residents hitting up the zine scene Friday night.
“Can I help you?” asks one of the McDonald’s cashiers. “421!” another employee shouts, calling out an order number. The McDonalds on 46th and Telegraph is a relatively quiet fast-food stop. People come in and out, but very few sit inside to eat. Underneath the McDonald’s large sign it reads, “over 70 billion served,” but the restaurant seems so empty inside. Between 9 and 10 a.m., only ten people walk inside, although the drive-through window has steady traffic. The majority…
It was a quiet afternoon last week around 2 p.m. on San Pablo Avenue. No one was on the play ground. Very few pedestrians on the sidewalk, but this rusty wire fence and the old playground sign caught my eye.
The Oakland Museum of California hosted a ‘sneak peak’ of its renovations that have been two years in the making. The museum is making efforts to get back to its roots as a ‘museum for the people.’
Three Oaklanders were honored by the Ella Baker Center last night at its annual fundraiser for their work on social and environmental issues in the community.
A new generation of car boots was introduced in Oakland this morning. It’s still bad news if you get one, but these let you pay up and unlock yourself on the spot.
On Friday night, more than 50 people crammed into the small narrow studio of the Crucible’s new art studio, the Cathedral Gallery, on Broadway in downtown Oakland. The show, which runs until Dec. 18, displays art ranging from a beautiful clay sculpted statue of a woman to brightly colored neck ties made of glass. The title: eARTh (with an emphasis on art). The art: made from glass, clay, marble, stone and plaster. The price: $50 to $3,000. Or am I…
The Best Equipment Company, on San Pablo Avenue, began in 1958. Deep red and yellow painted signs caught my eye. “Best? Fire?” That’s what the sign says. Now, I know where to go to get my very own fire extinguisher.
Today is the one-year anniversary of Proposition 8, a California proposition that altered the state constitution so as to bar gay marriage. Same-sex marriage is legal in a handful of states. Maine was one of them, briefly, until 53 percent of Maine voters voted against same-sex marriage in the state.
It was almost 5:30 p.m. when I caught the sunset peeking through the telephone poles near 67th Street and San Pablo Avenue.