Ryan Phillips

Volunteers gather this weekend to clean up Oakland

All over town on Saturday, volunteers will head out to community gardens, dog parks, senior centers and schools to spend the day trying to improve Oakland. The Throwdown for the Town is an event organized by The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, a community organizing nonprofit. More than 200 volunteers are signed up to work at one of the 25 service projects that will include working in community and school gardens, restoring vacant parking lots and helping out in…

Adoptable animal of the week: Saya

Oakland North is continuing with our feature. Every Tuesday, Oakland Animal Services will spotlight an “Animal of the Week” that’s up for adoption at their facility. This week it’s Saya.

Adoptable animal of the week: Astro

Oakland North is continuing with our feature. Every Tuesday, Oakland Animal Services will spotlight an “Animal of the Week” that’s up for adoption at their facility. This week it’s Astro the bunny.

Art Deco in Uptown

Click through the slideshow above to find out more information about Uptown buildings designed in the Art Deco style in the 1930s.

New Parkway Theater operator considers Auto Row, Temescal sites

If and when the Parkway Speakeasy Theater reopens, it won’t be at its former location east of Lake Merritt on Park Boulevard. Negotiations between a potential new operator and the building’s owners ended earlier this month, but two new possible locations, in the Auto Row and Temescal areas, remain in play.

Community Photo of the Week: Supernova

Oakland North is continuing with our feature. Every Wednesday, we will publish a photo submitted by one of our readers. This week’s photo is by Conrad Jung, an astronomer at the Chabot Space and Science Center.