Posted by Marc on February 28th, 2006 under Journal
Place has a very important influence on our identity. Join Marc as he ventures around Oakland revisiting the different homes that he lived in during the Eighty’s and Ninety’s.
In this installment Mark recalls his time spent on Mira Vista Ave.
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Posted by oakland_ear on February 21st, 2006 under Nature
An audio interview with Stephanie Benavidez (naturalist).
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Interview conducted by journalist Michael Fitzhugh.
Mp3 file found at at www.archive.org under creative common license
Posted by drjodi on February 20th, 2006 under Journal
A middle-aged woman has settled in on the grass along the shore of Oakland’s Lake Merritt to enjoy the afternoon sun. She is wearing a large-brimmed hat and leaning against a lime-green shag bedrest pillow, a large bag of fried pork rinds on her lap. She is surrounded by an enormous boombox with two speakers […]
Posted by BillyBuggy on February 20th, 2006 under Comedy
In the early 80’s, when I first moved to Berkeley, my roommate and I decided
to take my 2-man raft to Lake Merritt. We launched it on the west side of the
lake, jumping in so as to not get wet. We were paddling around for around
30 minutes when someone of authority in a small […]
Posted by oakland_ear on February 16th, 2006 under Action-Adventure
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Posted by Black_Panther on February 16th, 2006 under Historical
St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church
2624 West St. at 27th Street
(now St. Andrew’s Baptist Church)
Beginning Jan 20, 1969, the Black Panther Party initiated a free
breakfast for children program here, the first in a
series of community “survival programs.”
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Posted by Jenny on February 15th, 2006 under Nature
In the mid 1970’s I rented a small apartment by Lake Merritt in Oakland. My tiny daughter, Song, was just around the age of two. On Bellevue Avenue with a large open window facing the lake, our little place offered shelter with a wonderful view of trees, lawn, water, sky, birds, and an […]
Posted by miriam on February 3rd, 2006 under Nature
Intense and concentrated work with a team of mostly men who seem to love working 24 hours a day … flying in from Atlanta, Georgia … a $200 million project that is critical to the survival of the two companies competing for the work. Excitement to be part of something important while knowing […]
Posted by Limothy on February 2nd, 2006 under Abstract
It was 2 am, a damp morning. For most of the night, brittle fusillades had assailed our windows. It was a night in the first week of the Chinese New Year. A night of a thousand little firecrackers.
So when the first loud bang came, I slept through it. “What was that?” […]
Posted by Eassum on February 1st, 2006 under Mystery
Continued from Cold Pizza
It was a stroke of luck that I had heard of the 5th amendment before, as to my dismay, when I arrived at Lakeshore, I found out rather quickly that it did not sell pizza. The sound of live R & B emanated from the overwhelmingly bland exterior. Garok better have got […]
