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North Oakland Now: April 13, 2009

Three Trib reporters won a big award for their down-and-dirty series on Oakland’s child prostitutes today. You’d think the Trib would make it easy to find their story on its site. Not quite.

Dedicated to wheelies

Yes, the elusive wheelie (is that the right word to describe wheelies? Probably not, but just go with me). A while back, a friend sent me a YouTube link to a video of a group of guys riding bikes with quick release front wheels — they’d get pedaling to top speed then do a wheelie letting the front wheel roll to the side.  They’d continue riding on what seemed like these makeshift unicycles for blocks until their speed petered out…

Oakland Bites: Inconceivably delicious

That’s the tag line for Three Twins organic ice cream, and it pretty much hits the mark. With flavors like Madagascar Vanilla, Strawberry Je Ne Sais Quoi (the quoi being a splash of balsamic vinegar) and Peanut Butter Cookie Confetti Crunch, each taste is a bit of an adventure and even classic flavors like Mint Confetti (your typical mint chip) taste way better than their grocery store counterparts. Yesterday at the Berkeley Farmers’ Market, the parents of two of the…

North Oakland Now: April 9, 2009

Just a quick hit this morning, as your intrepid headline-gatherer is running late: the state says an Oakland woman embezzled close to $700,000 from the State Bar for clothes and spa treatments. Workers at Fairmont Hospital believe it is unsafe. And three people have been charged in what’s being called a “social-networking” kidnapping case — the three allegedly ambushed a man who had agreed to meet one of them for a date. Today in transit, Oakland and SFO airports are…