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Next Sunday, while you’re out shopping for pumpkins and tomatoes at the Temescal farmers market, you can also look out for Rick to get a quick, free bike tune-up. He bikes in with all his tools, pumps and work-stand on his hitch and he seems to do it all for the love of bikes–lucky us. Here are a few pictures of the man at work:
The streets around San Pablo were quiet in the late September sun last Wednesday afternoon. The shouts of kids playing jump rope at Berkeley-Maynard Academy, a charter elementary school, punctuated the quiet. Join the walk in these photo images.
Shades of blue are swished across a white canvas. Bold red fish contrast against a painted sea while faint bubbles surround a mermaid with green hair, bright lips and golden sunglasses. The mermaid’s name is Jasmin Flower. She has special powers to make the world a safer place. And this afternoon, over 200 works of art like “Jasmin Flower” will be on sale at Studio One Art Center at 365 45th Street in North Oakland. Today’s event, which celebrates the…
You have to look as far as New Zealand to find another country where drug companies can advertise products directly to patients. In the United States’ less regulated pharmaceutical market, patients can struggle to sort out competing claims about various drugs. And with Americans over 65 taking 34 percent of all prescription drugs, senior citizens are among the individuals most vulnerable drug-related complications. Poisoning is the fastest growing cause of accidental death among seniors, particularly from overdoses of over-the-counter and…
Every week this fall, Oakland North is taking a blogwalk. Usually on weekends, but maybe not. Sometimes we’ll have cameras, audiorecorders, or both; sometimes we’ll just tell you about what we heard and saw. If you want to send us someplace in particular, let us know. It’s a balmy early Friday evening in North Oakland. The stretch of College Avenue between Broadway and Claremont slowly comes more and more alive as the sun descends. The 51 and 7 AC…
Oakland is full of unique and pretty bikes. Sometimes I like to just ride around the city and see what’s locked up. The other day I saw three different people riding Bob Jackson bikes. A few months ago I posted some photos of bikes I like–I tend to go for vintage frames–and decided to do a similar post today. So, here are some photos of bikes I’ve seen around lately:
A dispatch from last night’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee meeting, at Oakland City Hall: First, where the sidewalk ends, to quote the late Shel Silverstein, might be closer to home than you think. At the intersection of 29th Avenue and Ford Street in the Fruitvale district of Oakland, along the Nimitz freeway, a half-mile from the Fruitvale Bart Station, and a mere four blocks from Lazear Elementary School, the sidewalk, literally, ends. A pedestrian walkway comes to a stop,…
In part one of the Discovery Channel’s “Gang Wars Oakland,” which aired Monday, viewers saw Oakland streets beset by drugs and violence. From a prison interview with a crime lord named M.A.C. to a ride-along with Oakland PD’s Gang Unit, the program depicted a cycle of murder and retaliation that, filmmakers say, “keeps on spinning faster.” The emotional core of the story came during the funeral of Ronnie Grier, a 16-year-old who was found shot to death near a 580…
Passing on word of a lakewalk for a good cause: the eighth annual Walk Against Domestic Violence, Saturday, October 3. Walkers meet at the Lake Merrit Boat House in Oakland for a Walk Against Domestic Violence. This is a collaborative effort by Communities-N-Concert, and Progressive Transitions, with support from the Alameda County Domestic Violence Coalition. The signup deadline is Sept. 19, so for go to http://www.asafeplacedvs.org, or call Carolyn Russell at (510) 986-8600 x315.