Music and lyrics, and helping kids find their voice
Monday, February 5, 2007
Ijeoma Thomas wants her lyrics to fly away like birds. The Oakland vocalist and poet has performed her freestyle, spoken-word jazz with such avant-garde musicians as Cecil Taylor, Roscoe Mitchell and Wadada Leo Smith for more than 25 years. She and her husband, Oluyemi Thomas, founded the quartet "Positive Knowledge," … 

Park Blvd. path plan gains residents' OK
Monday, February 5, 2007
Residents lauded a proposed multiuse path along Park Boulevard that would mean safer and smoother pedestrian and bicyclist passage between the Montclair and Glenview neighborhoods. Instead of jumping over mud puddles, avoiding ruts or watching for traffic on a dirt path that skims along the cliff edge above Dimond Canyon, joggers and bicyclists will be able to traverse a 10-foot wide paved path connecting Monterey Boulevard with Leimert Avenue …