Culture
It’s hard being a die-hard A’s fan when the Giants are doing their World Series thing again. Especially when it feels like the entire Bay Area has caught Giants fever–even AC Transit buses in Oakland are rooting for the San Francisco team.
Oakland Public Library, home to much more than books and shelves, encounters an old foe – funding.
Two women rolled out a grass carpet on MLK, and then served free lemonade one sunny September morning. A year later this space has become a symbol of change and community.
The 1700s sailed into port at Oakland’s Jack London Square aboard the brig Lady Washington for a nine-day stay this month. With a crew of 13 at her helm, the 112-foot wooden ship, a replica of its namesake from the American Revolutionary War, has been a tour and education site while docked in Oakland. Capt. Ken Lazarus considers the ship, a 1989 replica of the original Lady Washington Boston trading vessel from the 1780s, the quintessential teaching tool. The captain…
When Dan Stevenson placed a stone Buddha across the street from his house in Oakland’s Eastlake neighborhood, it was out of desperation. “The corner was constantly being filled up with mattress and couches and junk and there was some drug usage, a lot of graffiti, people just standing around doing nothing—just depressing,” said Stevenson. Stevenson and his wife, Lu, say they are not religious at all, but believe in the power of positive and negative energy, and so decided to…
Oakland mayoral candidates answer questions and seek votes – by discussing education.
Twenty-five years later, they returned to the site where the earthquake wreaked the most havoc, to remember a day they could never quite forget.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory hosted the “8 Big Ideas” event last Wednesday, as part of its “Science at the Theater” initiative. During the event, eight scientists were invited to present game-changing concepts and progressive ideas in eight minutes each.
Abantey, the role-playing world Becky Thomas has developed over the course of 25 years, was never meant to be just a game—it was always meant to be a learning and team-building exercise through which young students could apply the ideas they learned in school.