Emeryville
By Steven Short on Apr 18 2011 - 3:49pm
All we know about them, we know from their art.
We don’t know what they called themselves; we don’t know their language; we don’t know if they had a budget deficit. All we know about them, we know from their art.
And what we know from their art is this: the culture we call “Olmec” thrived in what...
By Ben Trefny on Jan 25 2011 - 5:08pm
Nominations for the 83rd Academy Awards were announced earlier today in Beverly Hills. The Oscars will take place February 27th, and several nominated films have Bay Area connections. The documentary “Inside Job” – about the global financial crisis – was directed by Berkeley resident Charles...
By Erica Mu on Jan 19 2011 - 11:54am
What do you get when you put Beatles songs through a bluegrass filter? Why, The Rubber Souldiers, of course! They'll be crossing the bridge from Emeryville to play in San Francisco at Slim's on Saturday night, January 22, starting about 9 p.m.
By Erica Mu on Dec 15 2010 - 12:02pm
Nigerian-born musician Baba Ken Okulolo will be playing a benefit concert next Thursday, December 23, at the African Childrens' Learning Center in Emeryville.
By Casey Miner on Nov 10 2010 - 3:37pm
Halloween was a scary day for bus riders in the East Bay. On October 31, the beleaguered AC Transit cut more than 7% of its service. That’s after the 7.5% the agency already cut back in March. More service reductions had been planned for December, but officials announced late yesterday that they...
By Crosscurrents Producer on Oct 4 2010 - 12:08pm
By Joanna Lin and Mandy Hofmockel
This story originally appeared in California Watch
In May 2009, the California attorney general’s office ordered a national retailer with nearly three dozen stores throughout the state to stop selling jewelry with illegal levels of lead.
Five months later, the...
By Clinton Killian on Sep 30 2010 - 10:51am
Now that Jerry Brown is running for governor, his campaign is pointing to Oakland as Exhibit A in the case for Brown as a can-do pragmatic politician, a counterpoint to the unfair caricature of Brown as a monkish pol in thrall to pervy French gurus and faddish Big Ideas. This is what Jerry Brown’s...
By Crosscurrents Producer on Sep 22 2010 - 10:53am
By Jennifer Inez Ward, Oakland Local
(Editor’s note: When Chief Anthony Batts was named as Oakland’s new police chief in August 2009, there were high hopes by many for what he would bring to the city. The former Long Beach police chief also had big plans for a community that was...
By Brenda Payton on Sep 8 2010 - 9:05am
When Oaklanders complain about gentrification, City Council member Ignacio De La Fuente begs to differ.
“I don’t see it as a classic case of gentrification, with one group getting pushed out. It’s not an issue of building condos,” he said.
He’s not blind to the condos that have been built in the...
By Tasneem Raja on Jul 15 2010 - 2:59pm
Those who switch from private car to public transit have many options in the Bay Area: trains, buses, even cable cars. But before there was AC Transit or BART, there was the Key System: a privately-owned mass transit company that operated electric railcars, streetcars and ferries. The Key System...
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