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New Year’s Eve 2012 events in Oakland, plus what’s open during the New Year’s holiday

Out with the old and in with the new. The Oakland North staff has put together a list of special events happening around Oakland this New Year’s Eve 2012. As always, we have included the holiday schedules for the AC Transit and BART and in this issue of “What’s Open” we include the schedule for the Broadway Shuttle as well.  Happy New Year! POP New Year’s Eve Party Monday, December 31, 5 p.m. Oracle Arena, 7000 Coliseum Way, Oakland, CA…

The architecture of Oakland: Mutual Stores/Safeway Headquarters

Many of the reporters at Oakland North are new to the Bay Area, and one of the first things we noticed while touring the city was its beautiful and sometimes unusual architecture. On the reporting team for this series, one of us is from Brazil and one is from Southern California. We decided it would be great to learn more about some of the structures that represent Oakland’s beautiful landscape. With a great deal of assistance from the representatives at…