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Every Friday night this summer, Oakland’s Linden Street Dance Studio is offering free dance lessons at Jack London Square. Anyone is welcome to attend and learn the basics of a variety of dance styles, including salsa, swing and tango.
Golden Gate residents gathered Sunday afternoon to clean up two blocks of San Pablo Avenue, from 65th Street to 63rd Street.
Lake Merritt may look calm and flat, like a city lake that’s probably more for pedal boats and kayaks than sailboats. But while the lake doesn’t have the challenging big swells and wind of the San Francisco Bay, it offers plenty of opportunities for sailing.
West Oakland’s Crucible studio is bringing the heat this weekend with fire performances by the L.A. circus troupe Lucent Dossier.
To alternating applause and boos, supporters and opponents of a proposed dog park at Lakeside Park broke even on Wednesday evening during a meeting of the Parks and Recreation Advisory Commission, when the plan drew a tie vote from the commission.
It’s summertime, and Oakland’s community gardens are thriving. But in a city with only about 200 plots for 40,000 people, waiting lists are long, and the Office of Parks and Recreation is expanding the gardening program as fast as it can.
Every Wednesday, Oakland North publishes a photo submitted by one of our readers. This week’s photo is by Mark Gartland, who snapped this shot of the legendary “Banjo Man” during a tailgating party at the Oakland Coliseum before an A’s game this summer.
Oakland’s public works committee spent about a minute Tuesday morning discussing a resolution that would connect a gap in the Bay Trail underneath the High Street Bridge in East Oakland near the city’s border with Alameda, before approving it by consensus. But that doesn’t diminish the step forward towards completing the trail, said Laura Thompson, the trail’s project manager.
Youth Greening Oakland (YGO) is an eight-week “earn and learn” summer program that hires teenagers to work in urban gardening projects while also learning about environmental justice and food sustainability issues.