City's Parks and Recreation office sets summer events
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Come out and play the OPR way, say event organizers from Oakland's Office of Parks and Recreation, who are holding a total of 48 events over 31 days throughout the city. Activities get under way Friday at City Hall, with Play Day in the Plaza … Corte Madera woman takes Woodminster
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Nearly 200 runners spent part of Father's Day participating in the 41st annual Dick Houston Memorial Woodminster Race at Joaquin Miller Park …
Techbridge engineers a new future for girls
Thursday, June 29, 2006
When she writes her back-to-school "What I did this summer" essay, Norma Salgado, 13, will have more to talk about than lazy days spent poolside. Picking out wallpaper made from recycled water bottles, installing solar panels on the roof and laying down bamboo flooring are a few activities Norma will be working on …
Freestyle Fridays
Friday, June 9, 2006
Rep your Hip Hop! MCs, Poets, Breakers, Dancers, Graf Artists, and DJ needed! Holla at the deFremery folks for more information on performance slots and entering the MC battle …
June a magical month at Oakland library
Monday, June 5, 2006
Summer's here, school's out and our libraries are throwing open our doors to invite you to join us for a series of open houses on the first two weekends in June! The main and every branch library will be hosting its own open house to thank voters for their past support and to ask for their community's input into shaping the future of their libraries …
Reading Buddies helps teen tutors, children
Monday, June 5, 2006
Summer is a break from school, but it's also a time to catch up. That's the idea behind the Community Reading Buddies project, in which teenage tutors help younger nonnative English speakers develop skills and confidence with the language …
Musical melting pot at Paramount
Monday, June 5, 2006
The interview with Michael Morgan, music director of the Oakland East Bay Symphony, was supposed to be about tonight's Let Us Break Bread Together concert at the Paramount. Morgan is so mentally quick and passionate, however, it's difficult to resist his wide-ranging intellect. He's funny too …
ALICE students act and dance stories of their elders
Monday, June 5, 2006
One child tells a story of a grandfather who washed refugees while living in Vietnam, while another speaks of an ancestor who fell off the famed Mayflower ship on the way to America. Those are just a few of the many stories that Oakland school district third-graders will tell through theater and dance at this year's Arts and Literacy on Children's Education production …
Community support makes East bay a magnet for artists
Friday, June 2, 2006
Plaster on Masonite is artist Tracy West's chosen medium, an unusual material but one that finds acceptance in the eclectic East Bay art scene. After years of painting thickly textured abstract canvases in her cold, dark Montclair garage, West has moved into a bright and airy studio in downtown Oakland …
Jack London: World traveler, writer, crusader ... farmer?
Friday, June 2, 2006
You've heard of Jack London, celebrated author of "Call of the Wild," and "White Fang." You may also know him as an intrepid world traveler and socialist crusader. But chances are you don't know Jack London the sustainable farmer who pioneered environmentally friendly practices on his sprawling ranch in the Northern California wine country …
