A month ago, I was out of town and wasn’t following local news. It was weeks later that I finally read in detail about the killing of Jinghong Kang on the 1900-block of Webster Street in Oakland on July 18.
Déjà vu all over again, in the immortal words of Yogi Berra, the legendary New York Yankee catcher known for his malapropisms.
I took my first-ever standardized test in 3rd grade; it was the ERBs – the Educational Records Bureau test. It was pretty exciting - but scary - since the teachers made a big deal about the tests before hand. The teachers were required to read out a little passage, spelling out the guidelines for taking the test. The test booklets were thick with mind-blowing questions to test our 9-year-old brains. The thing that was even more eye catching than the booklet was the scantrons: long columns of symmetrical oval-shaped bubbles.
Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums had finally announced his decision about running for re-election — he wasn’t, so the mayor’s race, or more accurately the mayor’s job, was on the minds of the people cruising Oakland’s Art Murmur on August 6.
On the first Friday of every month, 23 art galleries, most of them between 22nd and 26th streets along Telegraph and Broadway, open their doors to visitors.
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