Adoptable animal of the week: Rover

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

Bandwidth: Get to know some of the East Bay’s best new bands

Over the last year, Oakland North has profiled nearly a dozen up-and-coming East Bay bands as part of our mini-documentary video series called Bandwidth. Check out a few of the highlights here, and meet some of the faces you’ll see performing around town. • The California Honeydrops, an Oakland-based band, got their start playing at local East Bay haunts like the Cheese Board Collective in Berkeley and BART stations four years ago. They have now gone on to perform across…

You Tell Us: The Oakland Diss

It’s like we are the Boo Radley of the neighborhood, and nobody even dares to knock on our door because some guy one time told a friend that people in Oakland hate puppies and practice dark magic.

Total Estate Liquidation: Selling the goods with soul

From the time she was a sociology graduate student at University of California, Berkeley in 1990s, Kathy Pimpan has been fascinated by the relationship between people and things. Now her Oakland-based business, Total Estate Liquidation, helps clients dispose of things they’ve collected over a lifetime and find hard to part with, or assists families when they are overwhelmed by dealing with their late grandmother’s cluttered residence.

Adoptable animal of the week: April

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

Oakland North’s treats of summer: Try them before the season’s over!

Summer is the time for cooling drinks, frozen concoctions and delicious bite-sized treats, and Oakland North hit the streets to find some of the tastiest and most original summer snacks in town. Check out the best of our finds this weekend, before summer is (almost) over! Summer treat series: Check our our search for the most refreshing drinks where you’ll find mint lemonade, Italian sodas, Thai iced coffees and diablitos. Summer treat series: Our survey of Latin treats in Fruitvale where you’ll find cream-filled…