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Eat Real Festival cultivates local food

The 11th annual Eat Real Festival at Jack London Square this weekend drew in thousands of people with an appetite. Food trucks, environmental advocacy booths, and stalls serving locally-sourced food and drink fed a steady crowd hungry for new flavors. Eat Real is a food festival where lines become masses, and sensory overload is, above all, driven by the nose—between the yeasty pungency of beer, smoky slow-cooked southern-style barbeque, and the thickness of frying oil. Among the dozens of vendors…

This Weekend in Oakland

Community events and activities for the weekend of November 2-3, 2013. Got an event we didn’t know about? Please add it to the comments! Saturday, November 1 Laughter is the Best Medicine 6 p.m. Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 388 9th Street, Oakland The second annual “Laughter is the Best Medicine,” aims to raise awareness about mental health issues in the Asian American and Pacific Islander community. For more information and tickets, visit the Eventbrite site. Dia de los Muertos 10…