North Oakland Now
You and Oakland should really be facebook friends. Speaking of which. Be our friend! First day on the job for superintendent Tony Smith. Homes in Oakland and in the Bay Area experience a sales jump! Don’t know where to take her out this Friday night? Head on over to the Chabot Space and Science Center. It worked for Jessica Yadegaran.
What is happening to our vets? Go through Street Cinema’s schedule for some interesting flicks. It looks like BART and the union are back to square one. Will there be less sideshows this summer?
What’s the biggest trend in fashion in Oakland? R.I.P. T-shirts. The blogs have been breaking down the Oakland Airport Connector better than most. Just in time for today’s Public works Comittee meeting on the subject. Sim Oakland? Yes! Where City planning and video games meet. Build a city for the benefit of Oakland. Develop a walking route in Oakland’s coolest places.
What’s going on in East Oakland? Employees at UC Berkeley deliver a “wake up call” to UC President mark Yudof on Sunday morning at his North Oakland home. So now that the school district gets control of its schools – where is the money? Learn more about Oakland! 90-minute walking tours are available through the city here.
Digi Dave would love Oakland North readers and bloggers from the East Bay to make it out to a Bloggers Camp. That’s right! Bring your laptop and ideas over to TechLiminal in downtown Oakland and rub elbows with some of Oakland’s blogeratti. It looks like your safe to ride the BART until next week when unions vote on a new contract. Word has it the union might have to give up 100 million in concessions. The economy might be getting…
Our very own Rickey Henderson is making it into the Hall of Fame! If you steal 1,406 bases, you’ll go into the Hall, too! Newsom, and San Francisco, can learn a thing or two from Oakland. Including turning junkyards into beautiful farms. Oakland Tribune is hosting a survey on whether BART employees should receive pay increases. What are you waiting for? Vote! (So far, 87 percent say ‘no.’)
Oakland is celebrating 100 years of parks and recreation services this month. Oakland residents can purchase Fenton’s ice cream and, throughout the month of July, 25 percent of ice cream purchases will go back in Parks and Recreation. And, folks, you know we need it. Have you seen this man? Oakland police release photos of the man they are interested in the Tracy Spangler shooting last month. Oakland bloggers are in the zone about the city’s rezoning. What direction…
Happy Tuesday, North Oakland. Now that the budget has been voted on, the city council meetings on Tuesday may be a little less boring – or less interesting – depending on how you look at the situation. Either way, new topics will be raised, such as a plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions for the city. The meeting tonight starts at 6 at City Hall (1 Frank H. Ogawa plaza). In other news, the Oakland Unified School District just regained…
Welcome to the week, North Oakland. With the Fourth of July debauchery behind us, it might be a little difficult to launch back into the swing of things. Here’s a suggestion that might make Mondays a little easier to stomach: Jack London Square will be hosting Musical Mondays, which means you can play board games (chess, checkers, scrabble) with friends and significant others while being serenaded by live bands. 5:30-8, at the foot of Broadway. Today is also a day…