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Happy Father’s Day to all the rad Dads out there! The weather is beautiful today. Get out there enjoy it! However, if you want to stay inside check out Zoot Suit Cabaret a fund raiser by the East Bay Gay Men’s Chorus. Voting ends tomorrow for the East Bay Express’s Best of the Bay 2009. Make your voice heard.
Happy Juneteenth! If you’ve never celebrated Juneteenth before you haven’t missed your chance. Oakland is strangely silent for such a soulful city and Berkeley partied last weekend. However, San Francisco has a weekend chock full of Juneteeth activities if you’d like to try something new. For the uninitiated, June 19, 1865 is the day when Texas slaves learned of their freedom. Yes, it was over TWO YEARS after the official Emancipation Proclamation, but southerners don’t need much of an excuse…
Help Us Tell the Story of African-American Migration to North Oakland! Did you grow up in North Oakland? Do you work in the neighborhood? Shop there? Bring a friend or loved one who settled in Temescal in years past and interview them in our story booth in the neighborhood. •What have you always wanted to know about your friend or loved one? •What was the neighborhood like back in the day? •What should future generations know about African-American life in…
Downtown Oakland is the place to be tonight. Uptown Unveiled is a street festival with a ton of cool things to do like tours of the renovated Fox Theater, art installations, samples from uptown restaurants and plenty of activities for the kiddies. The epicenter of the action will be at 19th Street and Telegraph Ave. from 5-10p.m. Download the event schedule and map before you go to make your plan of attack. If you’re tired of being on your feet,…
Rest up dear readers. There will be a lot of partying to do in Oakland tomorrow. We’ll have details ready tomorrow morning to help you plan. In the meantime, catch up on the details of Oakland’s budget drama. Oakland North was at yesterday’s marathon budget meeting from start to finish. We also checked out some art and artists at East bay Studios It was so nice we did it twice. Don’t let our title fool you. We focus on North…
Head in the shadows at the Fruitvale Bart Station.
With a total of 40 miles, six checkpoints and throughout six cities in the East Bay (Oakland, Berkeley, Emeryville, El Cerrito, Albany and Richmond) last weekend’s Rad Massaker alleycat race was all sorts of fun. The winner, Ricardo Moran, clocked in at around two hours and 30 minutes, coming in ahead of over 150 other folks. Here are some photos I took of the alleycat:
Haven’t taken a walking tour of Oakland? You totally should! Take a look at some of Oakland’s oldest buildings. The Eastbay Express is now taking votes for their annual Subcultures awards. Perform your civic duty and vote! Hang out with Frank Chu for the 2nd annual Temescal Street Cinema June 18th and watch a series of shorts made by local artists. Bring a chair!
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ICE CREAM! What’s better than ice cream? Free, Ice Cream! Dreyer’s will be scooping out free ice cream by folks walking by Pier 39 tomorrow from 1:30 – 3:30. Readers: email us with your favorite flavors they handed out! Head down to Defremery Park on 1651 Adeline Street today from noon to six for the 2nd Annual Children’s Memorial Day in the Park.