Niema "Renaissance" Jordan is an Oakland grown writer with a love for the arts and a passion for building healthy communities. A graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, she did a short stint in New York after escaping Chicago winters. Now she is back in The Town and loving every minute. Constantly working towards her 10,000 hours, writing is her life. Niema's work can be found in the pages of national magazines like ESSENCE as well as renaissance20.blogspot.com. Check out her work at www.niemajordan.com.
Since 1993 42nd Street Moon has been celebrating and preserving the art and spirit of the American Musical Theatre. Blogger and 42 St. Moon Founder, Greg MacKellan, and BlogMaster Elisa Camahort of Worker Bees hope to give you a backstage glimpse at the theatre and all of its activities, from putting on our staged concerts of "Lost" musicals, to our outreach programs.
If one mayor represented all of Alameda and Contra Costa counties, that person's 2.5 million constituents would live in the country's fourth-largest city. And just as these East Bay counties are very different from the rest of the San Francisco Bay Area, the East Bay Express is a very different paper. From the international populations that make Oakland and Richmond so dynamic, to the ideological diversity that separates Berkeley from Walnut Creek, our readers are united by their love of a region that is second to nowhere in beauty, livability, intellectual firepower, and cosmopolitan charm.
Every week, the Express provides these well-educated world travelers the only medium dedicated exclusively to them. From our authoritative cover stories; to our in-depth local reporting, arts and dining coverage; to the area's most comprehensive weekly calendar; the East Bay Express has been this vibrant region's leading voice since 1978.
Kathryn Harper is a Renaissance woman; she has worked as a librarian, psychotherapist, and community advocate. She grew up in the snow belt of Syracuse, New York, and headed to Austin, Texas, in 1994 for the sunshine, job opportunities, and barbeque. In 2004 she moved further west to the scenic and culturally diverse San Francisco Bay Area. Kathryn is also a self-taught artist, poet, and an omnivorous, voracious reader. Believing passionately in the innate creativity of all humans, she dedicates her life to igniting curiosity, promoting creative and critical thinking, and inspiring enthusiasm for lifetime learning. Kathryn can always be persuaded to savor a good meal, play board games, or dance. She lives in Santa Clara, California, with her husband, her amazing daughter Claire (born 9/8/07), and Stella the cat.
Welcome to the new site.
One year ago today I started a blog on a lark. There was no motivation, no purpose, no theme. The blog became a straightforward, if opinionated, record of daily life in a small neighborhood of Oakland, California.
Today I’m happy to say A Rockridge Life will remain just that.
The new portfolios hold photographs and writing from the blog that I’d like to return to, and you might too. Today we start with flowers and food, two of my passions. In time, more of these portfolios will be added, and the existing ones refined.
Shortform news items from and about the city of Alameda. "'News' is anything that anybody doesn't want somebody to know." We welcome letters from our readers. You can e-mail us at aanbletters@actionalameda.org
Life on the Island: Politics, school, commerce and distractions. Here you’ll find posts on Alameda almost (but not quite) every day. You’l also find links to other stories about Alameda published in the Alameda Journal.
By reading this soon-to-be-award-winning daily noosepaper, you have become one of over 44,850 visitors* to Alameda Daily Noose and you have become one of the best informed Alamedans on issues that don't really matter, as we regularly publish Alameda press releases before they appear in the Journal, the Times-Star and the Sun. We also publish Alameda noose they never print.
Alameda is a charming island city and sometimes confused with the name of the county to which it belongs (Alameda!). Perhaps the city/county founders were so enamored of the name, they christened it twice (along the lines of New York, NY?) But I digress …
As a long time resident, I have watched the city evolve over the years in an attempt to keep pace with the ever changing times. Whilst change can be good, it has certainly not been easy for Alameda as witnessed by the passionate debates over growth vs. preservation. This blog will attempt to chronicle some facets about life in Alameda and perhaps this might help explain why there is no other place quite like it in the entire bay area.
I am at: alameda.blog@gmail.com
Peter Calthorpe is a co-founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism and a Principal at Calthorpe Associates. He has helped solidify a growing trend towards the key principles of New Urbanism: that successful places - whether neighborhoods, villages, or urban centers - must be diverse in use and user, walkable and transit-oriented, and environmentally sustainable. His work has focused on how regional-scale planning and design can integrate urban revitalization and suburban renewal into a coherent vision of metropolitan growth.
After studying at Yale's Graduate School of Architecture, Calthorpe promoted energy-efficient buildings and solar design initiatives at the Farrallones Institute, the California Office of the State Architect, and with Van der Ryn, Calthorpe and Partners. In 1983, he established Calthorpe Associates, allowing him to successfully implement his philosophies of regional design through cutting-edge projects in Portland, Salt Lake, Austin, the Twin Cities, and Los Angeles. During the Clinton Administration, Calthorpe provided guidance for HUD's Empowerment Zone and Consolidated Planning Programs as well as the HOPE VI program to rebuild failed public housing projects. His international work has demonstrated that community design with a focus on environmental sustainability and human scale can be adapted throughout the globe. Chosen by the State of Louisiana to lead long-term planning efforts following the destruction caused by hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Calthorpe is now the Lead Planner for the "Louisiana Speaks" planning initiative, and his firm is helping advise the Louisiana Recovery Authority on how southern Louisiana can recover from Hurricane Katrina while restoring wetlands and other ecologically sensitive areas.
Alamedans.com is a gateway to news, information and opinion from a variety of Alamedans with a distinctively Alameda focus. By reading this blog, you have become one of the best informed Alamedans in the history of Alameda. Never before have so many banded together to blog so much about Alameda.
Posts found here are a combination of posts from a number of Alameda related blogs, as well as occasional guest-pieces written specifically for Alamedans.com
Albany Today is a community news website dedicated to provide news and information service to residents of Albany, CA. To suggest a story or inquire about posting one, please email Barbara Grady at barbgrady@sbcglobal.net.
Albany Today was started in September, 2007 by Linda (Linjun) Fan, a graduate student of journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. The website has become the most reliable and respected news source in town by serving the community with timely, lively and fair coverage on all major issues.
The Almond-Shuey neighborhood is located in downtown Walnut Creek, just blocks from the East Bay's premiere shopping, dining and entertainment hot spot.
There are 6 streets that comprise Almond-Shuey; Almond Avenue, Almond Court, Shuey Avenue, Stow Avenue, Brooks Street and Dora Avenue.
The Around Dublin Blog was launched on October 27, 2009 by John M. Zukoski and Jimmy Y. Huang as a resource for neighborhood information in Dublin, California.
As proud new home owners who are excited about Dublin’s impressive achievements and vast potential, they started to read the Staff Reports, follow City Council meetings, and consult Dublin’s City Staff to learn more about the many exciting developments throughout this beautiful emerald city of Northern California. Once they realized that other residents would be interested in the information they have collected and digested, they started this website to share what they know, evaluate each project on its own and in the greater context of the city, and provide a forum for interested residents to contribute their perspectives.
When Anna and I were first dating in the mid-1970s we lived in Oakland and occasionally went dancing with friends from the theatre where we performed during the summer. (Woodminster Theatre in Joaquin Miller park.) There was a club down near the Oakland coliseum that allowed those of us who were not yet 21 to dance to the funky music that was popular in Oakland at that time.
One of the groups setting the tone for the Eastbay music scene in the 1970s was Tower of Power. They released an album in 1974 called Back to Oakland, and when we decided to move back to our old stomping grounds, I thought it would be fitting to pay homage to that record by naming this humble blog after the album. There’s some good music on the disc. Check it out!
Walking can be a form of transportation, a means of meditation or exercise, or a great way to explore a community. Writer/photographer Keith Skinner offers intimate glimpses of Berkeley life, in word and image, as well as reflections on the joys and challenges of a modern urban walker.
The hyperlocal blog for Berkeley, covering news, resources, debates, the arts and anything of local interest.
Berkeleyside welcomes story ideas, photos, videos and commentaries on any aspect of Berkeley. Contact us through tips@berkeleyside.com.
Burritos, taco trucks, The Mission, technology, Macs, iPhones, Canada — so much to discuss.
California Beat is a website about the people, places and things of the San Francisco Bay Area.
This blog is an attempt to chronicle our adventures living in a small 1915 bungalow in the heart of Oakland, California. We’ve got a big dog, a little garden, and a 94-year-old house about a mile from the city’s center that we’re slowly trying to restore and update. Most of the time this blog is about our house and garden, our neighborhood, and our city. Occasionally, I write about bigger picture issues and ideas, usually around urban planning and policy, food systems, or other things I think are fun and interesting.
CLAYCORD.com is the #1 blog for local breaking news for the cities of Concord, Clayton, Pleasant Hill & Walnut Creek.
Our exclusive and breaking news stories have been on every local news station, in every local newspaper, on the radio, and even on CNN!
Thanks for reading!
And feel free to email the Mayor of CLAYCORD anytime at mayorofclaycord@yahoo.com
Coastsider covers coastal San Mateo County, from Devil's Slide to the Santa Cruz County line. We're based in Montara, and focus principally on news in Montara, Moss Beach, El Granada, and Half Moon Bay. But we're also interested in Pescadero, La Honda, and the Southcoast. The subjects we're most interested in are community, planning and development, and the coastal environment.
Scratching beneath the shiny, happy surface of a California suburb (Walnut Creek).
The mission of The Daily Nugget is to provide quality coverage about everything we enjoy about San Francisco culture and beyond. The goal is to provide news with sarcastic commentary and fun. The site has a focus on the events, technology, architecture and culture of San Francisco, but also makes comments on general pop culture and funny items found on the Internets.
The motto for The Daily Nugget is “News sprinkled with sarcastic commentary–one nugget at a time.” Make yourself “regular” and visit often, because hey, research shows that everyone should squeeze out a nugget at least once a day. We squeeze them out so you don’t have to. Please don’t forget to read the terms of service and feel free to send email if you have any questions or concerns.
Comment and content on this blog are the sole opinion of Edmundo Delmundo. Edmundo Delmundo takes all responsibility for his comments and musings. Credit is given where credit is due. Fact checking and journalistic integrity are not hallmarks of this blog.
Edmundo Delmundo gives consent to aggregators (e.g. Alamedans) simply to get the word out. His association should in no way be construed to suggest any editorial collusion.
An alternative to traditional coverage of the towns of Lafayette, Moraga, and Orinda, California. The three greatest towns in the state!
El Cerrito Focus is a Web site dedicated to covering local news and events which affect the community of El Cerrito, Calif. We are a group of six UC Berkeley Graduate Journalism students who will be covering your community over the next several months. We’re here to report the news that matters to you, El Cerrito, so consider yourselves in focus.
A photo blog focused on West Oakland.
In the present, Oaklanders make decisions that shape the future. This blog comments on those decisions from the perspective of a real estate and marketing consultant who lives in Old Oakland and grew up in Rockridge.
Information and analysis to support responsible participation. Serving the neighborhoods surrounding Lake Merritt in Oakland, California.
Grand Lake Neighbors is a group of volunteers working together to preserve and improve the Grand Lake district of Oakland, California. Our mission is threefold:
* Communication – Sharing information and keeping each other informed about issues in our area.
* Solving problems – Tapping into the incredible talent in our neighborhood to address specific problems.
* Effecting change – Being an agent for improving our quality of life.
We work with neighborhood groups and individuals to tackle issues such as:
* Public safety
* Noise
* Attracting new retail merchants
* Supporting existing businesses
* Local cultural events
* Beautification and streetscape improvements
* Building Neighborhood Watch block groups
* Traffic
* Parking
A community news source for residents of the HarriOak neighborhood in Oakland, CA.
i live here:SF is an open invitation to San Francisco residents to enjoy and participate in, sharing many facets of life in this city with each other and the world at large. The project was also featured in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Julie Michelle is one of the founding members of the photographic collective CALIBER.
Her website is femmefotographie.com. Her writing and personal blog is julieliveshere.com. Julie is also the photographer for the band Magic Christian.
Dan Brekke: "In the news business since 1972, longer now than some of my colleagues have been alive, and I'm still learning." One journalist's take on everyday life in the Bay Area.
I fell in love with Alameda in 1974 on the first day we drove through the "Tube" on to Webster Street, and have been walking Alameda streets nearly every day since then. The city is a treat for the eyes and the imagination. Here is what I see...
I’m a writer and multimedia producer living and working in the Mission. You can find my work all over the place — I’ve contributed to Twitter Wit, NBC Bay Area, Penthouse, PC World, FastCompany, Hispanic Business, Valleywag, Curbed SF, SFGate, Young Manhattanite, NewTeeVee, Web Worker Daily, Other Magazine, GigaOm, Fleshbot, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, SFist, mcweeneys.net, CNet, Sams Publishing and Osborne-McGraw Hill.
I’ve also turned up incidentally at Time, Metblogs San Francisco, Mediabistro, The Fart Party, Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits, Red Eye, Black Eye, KPIX, Ryan is Hungry, Slashdot, San Francisco Unscripted, the San Francisco Examiner and Grade the News.
I’m not to be confused with other awesome people named Jackson West worldwide, like the home-staging professional in Vancouver or the personal mail courier in Canberra.
Seeking to design & develop internet software, create tools & utilities for processing & presenting information, provide coding & technical support to local small businesses & other professionals.
Skilled programmer in Java and PostScript; working at Database Design and Website Development using Filemaker and Dreamweaver. Currently designing electronic maps and diagrammatic forms, and writing PHP/MySQL on Mac OS X.
Enjoy Hiking & Biking, Camping; play Chess; practice Oneironautics. Once enthusiastic about paragliding and aviation in general, I now dream of earning a private pilot’s license to explore North America from the air.
Livermore Links is the hyperlocal news blog focusing on the Livermore Valley, located in the East Bay's Tri-Valley region.
A blog about Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland.
livinintheloin is:
a) a tree hugger
b) an activist / volunteer in The Tenderloin
c) a cartoon character
d) car-free
e) On the NOM/TCBD Board
f) All of the above
Basically, a regular guy that’s been in the area for about a decade, in SF for 6 years. Last summer, ‘07, I bought a condo in the Tenderloin — the American dream. From the perspective of a guy who had actually only been downtown a few times — the “dream” was initially more like a psycho-nightmare. Uh, what is that smell? Look at that, a guy using a car mirror to inject (I dunno) into his neck.
I recently wrote a blog post listing some of what I consider to be essential Oakland experiences. I added to that original list some suggestions provided by my blog readers, and now I intend to go through the list and blog about each of these experiences. As I blog about them, I’ll update this page with links to the corresponding blog posts and it will be easy to tell what I’ve done because I’ll mark them in bold and move them to the top of the list.
After MOBN! had its budget meeting, took votes there and then surveyed its membership electonically, the results were clear:
* Hands off the police department;
* The city can’t fix this its fiscal problemswith program reductions;
* City salaries and benefits are out of control;
* Fixing these problem will take broad-based, across the board personnel cost reductions in every department.
* Stay up to date on what's happening at the Library, best-selling books, great websites, book clubs, author appearances, and more!
Maven has more than 20 years of high tech experience from working from 976-Jeanne Dixon Horoscopes and large telecommunications projects, to computer training, to large corporate IT projects, to becoming a web designer.
In the 199os, worked with an innovative interactive television project called 21st Century Vaudeville. In 1996, Denise founded T.I.E.S. Terminal Illness Emergency Search, which offered free post-adoption search services to those with terminal illness. She worked with Bastard Nation working on Adoptee Rights issues. Denise designed Filmmaker, Sheila Ganz’s website for her film, “Unlocking the Heart of Adoption”. She has also volunteered with Mid-Peninsula Support Network and worked in clinic defense for Planned Parenthood. Denise has testified before state and local government and lobbied multiple state legislatures.
Marin Mommies was developed and launched by Pamela Fox in January, 2007. A stay-at-home mom of two small children, Pamela grew up in San Rafael, and currently lives in Novato. It is her hope that Marin Mommies will be a place for moms (and dads, too) to come together to learn, advise, discuss, and share tips and resources with other parents in Marin and the San Francisco Bay Area—and anywhere else, for that matter. Much of the content in Marin Mommies is specific to the Bay Area and Marin County, but much will be of interest to parents everywhere!
Discover the buzz that has invigorated Oakland’s vibe. Downtown has burst onto the nightlife scene in a big way. Scores of new restaurants, clubs and venues have sprung up and more are on the way.
These pages are your essential guide to downtown Oakland hot spots.
75 restaurants and cafés.
33 galleries and cultural venues.
40 clubs and bars.
32 major attractions and events.
One happening downtown.
Mission Loc@l believes that by covering a neighborhood fairly and thoroughly, we can build community and a sustainable model for quality journalism.
As part of that effort, we seek collaboration and experimentation that will serve the community we cover and journalism. In the Mission District that means being a bilingual site and using print, multimedia and video to deliver information that offers diverse residents a way to connect and stay informed.
The site launched in October 2008, opened an office in the Mission District in January and many of us are Mission residents.
The project is part of an initiative in hyper-local coverage developed by UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, and supported by the school, the Ford Foundation and other donors.
Our aim is to become a self-sustaining model for public private partnerships that involve journalism schools, private foundations and community supporters.
This summer’s staff includes five interns from UC Berkeley, one intern from SF State and a visiting scholar from Mexico. We also participate in collaborations to mentor young journalists.
Saluting San Francisco's Mission District. Quote from the SF Bay Guardian: "Politics! Culture! Real-time crime reports! Drunken hipsters! Whether you want to immerse yourself in the gory and dramatic details of the proposed American Apparel store, suss out the latest renegade Sparks-and-empanada-flavored ice cream food cart location, revel in random pics of burnt mattresses on the sidewalk, or mock the Ritual Roasters laptop rodeo, of course you turn to the Mission Mission blog, our one-click West Coast answer to Brooklyn Vegan, Hipster Runoff, and Lookbook. "
We’re a fast-growing news and features website bringing our readers more interesting, more compelling and more important stories about the people, places and things in Marin County.
MoreMarin.com debuted in Spring of 2008, as a small, online-only news source. Since then, we’ve added multiple sections including cultural, environmental and outdoor activities coverage, food reviews and the most comprehensive and up-to-date restaurant database in Marin.
The big guys have taken notice—we’ve recently partnered with SFGate.com. Our stories now appear on their website daily, and that has boosted our traffic dramatically.
I love Oakland and have loved it for as long as I can remember.
As a young child living in The Haight, my fondest memories were the "trips" across The Bay to see my Aunt Carol. Ok. She wasn't my real aunt, but she and my Mom were true "sisters". Fairyland, Knowland Park, I. Magnin, Jack London Square, Doggie Diner, and Capwell's ? The only thing better was one of those sunshine-laced days to make it a perfect day. I even decided to attend high school here. I couldn't get enough!
My Blog will be devoted to all things Oakland; especially the revival of Downtown. I live Downtown. I work Downtown. I love in Downtown. It is my goal to have as many Oakland Lovers live in Downtown as possible.
The Myrtle Street Review is a West Oakland-based blog about slightly sideways things. Or slightly sideways reactions to things. It is written by Susanna Varestus. You can send feedback and ideas for things to write about by email.
I run the popular "N Judah Chronicles" website, where I write about San Francisco urban life from the perspective of a daily MUNI rider. The blog was voted by San Franciscans as "Best Local Blog" in 2008, and has received recognition locally since 2005.
A hyper-local guide to Noe Valley ... with attitude.
This is the Oakland blog for people living out loud. True to the Oakbook philosophy, we’ll tell you where to go, what to do, and what’s really going down in the town and around the Bay. From parties to films, peace protests to flag football, if there's a there there, we'll blog it.
If you've got events, photos, videos, announcements or general news on all the happenings in the Bay, send 'em over to us at oscene@theoakbook.com And don't be afraid to leave a comment. Don't be shy...come over and talk to us. You just might get lucky!
Oakland Crimespotting is an interactive map of crimes in Oakland, CA, and a better way of understanding crime in cities. This project is not affiliated with the City of Oakland or the Oakland Police Department, but we do use data published on CrimeWatch, the City’s community crime mapping website. There are several things to do here: Explore maps, browse crime reports by day and by type, and sign up to receive e-mail alerts and RSS feeds for crime reports in your neighborhood. Information about site updates and new features can be found on our blog, blog.crimespotting.org.
When you pay attention to your surroundings, there's no end to what you can learn.
Oakland Local is a news & community blog for Oakland that combines reported stories, blog posts & news and events from over 35 community and nonprofit partners. Updated several times a day, OL takes a social justice approach to Oakland issues including food access, climate change, development and transportation. We are diverse and reflect many voices...and we welcome new bloggers, community members, and writers. If you are a blogger in Oaktown, list yourself in our directory--we have 186 blogs there--are you among them?
Oakland North is a news project of U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. With support from the Ford Foundation, graduate student reporters at the School are creating focused news outlets to concentrate on different parts of the Bay Area. Our goals are to improve local coverage, experiment with online and digital media, and listen to you–about the stories and features that most interest you, the issues that concern you, the information services you want, and the reporting you’d like to see undertaken in your own community.
Oakland North is staffed this fall by the reporting students of Cynthia Gorney and Kara Platoni, both journalists who have lived in Oakland for years. You can click here for bios of all 18 students.
We hope to keep Oakland North a source of news and community conversation, and we welcome all comments, corrections and suggestions. Please check out our sibling news outlet across the bay, Mission Local, covering San Francisco’s Mission district; and look for the launch this fall of the new Richmond Confidential.
We all take seriously our Ford Foundation mandate, which is to explore new ways to give communities back the coverage they’re losing as regional newspapers shrink–and also to be inventive about what digital journalism can do for all of us in the future. We’re learning new ways of telling stories in sound pictures, in cellphone dispatches, and in other forms of back-and-forth still under development.
Oakland Space Academy features lectures and discussions on space in and around Oakland California. To suggest a topic for further study, email oakland.space.academy @gmail.com.
Owner of Spencer Investigations, est. 1996 in Oakland, California. (510) 593-3767. Specialize in civil investigations, criminal defense,locates, taking statements, background checks, domestic cases, etc. Member, associate, Alameda Contra Costa Trial Lawyers and Alameda Bar. Graduate of Franklin and Marshall College and UC-Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.
I spent the day with my friend BHboy today and we had experienced so many good sides to Oakland just this weekend alone, but the news always seems to pick up the more negative aspect. I LIVE IN WEST OAKLAND AND LOVE OAKLAND for its diversity (despite all the talk of corrupt politicians, crime and poverty) and have always tried to get people to see that it has a lot to offer. Anyway, BHboy in his youthful wisdom suggested I should blog about all the cool things this city has to do. Bare in mind that as geeky as I am, I am not into the web social scene (even my boss is dumbfounded that I don't have a F*c#book profile) and only carry around a mobile phone because I have to for work.
news outside my glenview window
Since 2000, Oaklandish has been a strong local voice promoting a positive face of Oakland. We have worked with many local artists and community groups, building a strong network of like-minded individuals working to foster groundbreaking work within the city of Oakland. Through the sales of our civic-pride apparel, we have been able to give back to our community in the form of a grant program open to all residents of Oakland. Please visit www.oaklandish.com for more information!
Take a look at the photos of public places in Oakland, CA. Can you identify the location? Leave a comment with your answer.
Do you have a photo you'd like to share on OakSnap? Send it over to cmn.wilson@gmail.com and you may see it up on the blog!
The Oakland snapshot mystery game.
1. Check out the photos and see if you can guess where the snapshot was taken. You can identify the photo by leaving a comment listing the neighborhood and/or cross street.
2. Send in tricky shots to add more fun to the game.
3. If this game becomes a hit I will work on getting prizes for the first commenter to guess the correct location on each photo post!
Oakland Speaks: Eastside Stories is an integrated public art project by artist Rene Yung that will beautify the new East Oakland Community Library and create a new platform for community storytelling about East Oakland. The overall theme of the project is Mutuality + Transformation, meaning that as members of a community, each of us is interconnected and we have the power to individually an collectively take actions to make positive changes.
This project consists of three parts:
Public Art in the Library
A Digital Archive of Community Stories about East Oakland
Community building activities including forming new partnerships, hosting storytelling events and an building a new online community
About OurSausalito.com
We're out to radically redefine the concept of a Guidebook. We're shredding the old assumptions of the Frommer's and Fodor's of the world, and building a new, vibrant, living online guide that constantly changes to meet readers' needs.
We are the journal of a passionate love affair between a place, the people who live here and those who come from around the world to visit. Not every town can inspire passion. Sausalito can.
RIPTIDE GOES WITH THE FLOW
Pacifica Riptide is an open forum for community news and opinion. Riptide celebrates Pacifica's green hillsides, open spaces, abundant coastal and marine life, and enterprising people, recognizing that Pacifica's environment and economy are interdependent.
This site features Neighborhood News in and around the Prescott Oakland Point neighborhood which is one of the oldest residential and commercial areas in Oakland. The Prescott-Oakland Point Neighborhood Association (POPna) community group's boundary is defined within Mandela Pkwy (East), 7th Street (South), 580(North), San Francisco Bay (West) encompassing the "Central Station" development and Oakland Army Base Area.
A blog about the beautification and re-redevelopment of Oaktown from the viewpoint of a downtown resident, dark greenie, new urbanist fan and world traveler.
I also run a pedicab in central Oakland. It’s called “Back Seat.”
Contact:
k150 [at] yahoo
With a grant of $500,000 from the Ford Foundation to develop digital news sites, student reporters with the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley are covering neglected Bay Area Communities during core reporting classes. The funding also allows the school to hire two full-time multimedia instructors to teach multimedia skills during the reporting classes and oversee the development of these news websites. The Bay Area communities, increasingly ignored by the local news industry, are the focus of our “hyperlocal” websites.
Welcome to the blog for the Richmond District of San Francisco. Managed by several residents of the Richmond District, the blog is designed to be a source for information, events and news about the neighborhood.
Have an event coming up, a new restaurant or business opening, an idea for a story or something else you want to tell us about? Send us a note with all the details.
We hope you enjoy the blog as much as we enjoy our Richmond District neighborhood. :)
My name is Sally (if that wasn’t obvious already) and I want to thank you for following me as I tour around looking for fun things to do in the San Francisco Bay Area. I’m going to be exploring the Bay – uncovering hidden gems as I go – and using this blog to document my experience.
I have so much fun bopping around from restaurants in the Bay Area to funky shops and boutiques that I decided it would be selfish of me NOT to share all of my experiences with the world.
Whether you’re a bored local or are planning on visiting San Francisco, my goal is for you to discover something new, fun and maybe even thought provoking to do in the Bay Area through this collection of blog posts.
Please note that I live in Marin County so I may be a little biased toward things to do in Marin and I’ll probably focus on more things to do in Marin County than anywhere else in the Bay. However, I promise I will be adventurous as I sally across the bridges and step over the county line on a regular basis. Knowing I have to document lots of lesser known fun things to do in the Bay Area will force me to try new things and get out of my comfort zone.
A writer and photographer, Jennifer Inez Ward has been documenting Oakland neighborhood’s for more than 10 years. A graduate of UC Berkeley’s School of Journalism, Jennifer focuses on the uniqueness and beauty of everyday life in a city that is too often overlooked for its treasures and pleasures. Throughout the years, Jennifer has had the honor of showcasing her work at a number of venues, including a permanent loan of images that are displayed on the front wall of Barnes and Nobel in Jack London Square. Jennifer is a featured artist documented in “Images of America: Black Artists in Oakland”.
San Francisco as seen through the Civic Center neighborhood: its politics, arts and characters.
Launched in August of 2004, SFist is the most popular local blog in the Bay Area. It has posts ranging from in-depth features to insightful interviews, to bona-fide scoops. Its staff is as eclectic as the city they love. SFist has been mentioned by the San Francisco Chronicle, CNN's Wolf Blitzer, and several local media outlets. It was named the Best Local Blog by SF Weekly and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. SF Weekly said the site is "so distracting that it keeps us from doing any work," and that the site has its "nose in just about every nook and cranny of San Francisco." The Guardian said that SFist was "blog heaven" for their readers and the Chronicle is thankful for SFist and its "constant flow of information." San Francisco magazine readers picked the site as the Best Bay Area Blog.
Sonoma Country Life from a British/American writer's perspective, covering modern community living in an evolving region best known for farming and wine making. With a home base at the gateway to wine country, people, politics, business, arts, artisan farmers and wine makers of the riverfront city of Petaluma take center stage in daily vignettes of a locavore's life.
This site aims to explore and infiltrate histories forgotten and places unfound in the greatest American city. Those who live in San Francisco know that it has a rich history, from the original Ohlone inhabitants, to the Gold Rush, to the quake of '06, and into the modern era.
It is a small city, a dense collection of hills and neighborhoods, parks and populations. It's a challenge, even for those of us who've lived here a decade or more, to fully expose ourselves to it. There are spots that remain hidden, and even the spots that we've seen and experienced are often not fully known.
Tales of my utterly surreal San Francisco existence.
Welcome to The Bay Area, a new New York Times blog covering stories of interest to readers from the nine counties that embrace neighborhoods from Mountain View to Mt. Tam to Mt. Hamilton, Pleasanton to Palo Alto to Petaluma, San Jose to San Rafael to San Pablo, Fremont to Fairfield to the Farallones.
You get the idea.
Think of The Bay Area as a café with good coffee (or tea), comfortable armchairs and permission to talk to one’s neighbors, who are generally interesting and informed. Here, you’ll find conversations on the region’s politics, entertainment, crime, education and, of course, food. It is a discussion that is taking place in all the local micro cultures and micro climates, among neighbors, bloggers, family members, friends and co-workers.
We will point to interesting stories in The New York Times, which recently launched the Bay Area Report, a section with coverage of news, arts, wining, dining and lifestyles that appears on Friday and Sunday. We will also highlight local news and information from regional media, bloggers, student publications and Twitter. We will report news live from meetings, public gatherings and other events.
Join us, please, with your ideas and comments, photos and videos (bayarea@nytimes.com). The Bay Area is more than a region around the San Francisco Bay. Wallace Stegner might call it a geography of the spirit. And there are fault lines rumbling every day.
This blog provides information about Oakland’s most happening ‘hood - Downtown Oakland, colloquially known as The DTO. I don’t moderate comments but sometimes they’re caught in the spam filter; contact me if your comment hasn’t appeared within a day.
The Fault Lines Project is about the many people who live with violence in Oakland. They are from every walk of life - children, adults, drug addicts, drug dealers, police officers, case workers, parolees, bus drivers, teachers - All have to live with the reality that Oakland is still perceived to be one of the most violent cities in the country, and still it is home. This project aims to give voice to those people, and start a dialogue across the fault lines of this divisive issue.
Welcome to The Island, Alameda’s online news source. This site is written and edited by Michele (Marcucci) Ellson. Ellson’s journalism career stretches back 17 years, with her most recent gig as a staff reporter for the Bay Area News Group based in Oakland. Her work has appeared in the San Jose Mercury News, the Oakland Tribune and the Contra Costa Times. She is the winner of several journalism awards, including a Sigma Delta Chi award for investigative reporting, Associated Press and James Madison Freedom of Information. She was also the publisher of her own monthly ‘zine, sacred cow. Ellson has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Buffalo State College.
It’s the same all over the world. Knock on a door. Pick up a phone. Stop a stranger on the street. Ask a question. You might get the brush off, or you might hear a story. Oakland and Berkeley are no different from anywhere else. Yet, in this metropolitan area of half a million people where 89 languages are spoken, tech entrepreneurs share buildings with potters, and one of the world’s great universities sits not five miles from one of the world’s great ports, too many stories are left untold.
The OakBook wants to tell some of those stories. And we want to offer a place where you can tell yours. We will bring you news from the schools your children attend, the ways your neighborhood is changing, new art, new theater, and new places to eat and drink. Our website invites you to give your take, whether it’s on an old cafe, a new charter school, or some outrageous plan hatched in City Hall. We’d love for you to tell us what we should be covering. So, send us your feedback. We want to hear from you
When walking down the streets of Oakland, Berkeley and Emeryville, I often see folks I know. Waving to the familiar faces makes me happy, as I have a home amidst the city! From my morning latte at Peet’s to my Sunday shopping at the Farmer’s market, I enjoy all the East Bay offers. Follow this real estate blog covering the beautiful cities of the East Bay!
Storytelling has been used to entertain and communicate ideas for thousands of years. Throughout history, narrative has evolved in parallel with emerging technologies, such as the written alphabet, radio, film, and television. Today's new technologies, including the Internet, databases, and mobile devices, allow us to author and communicate stories faster and in more ways than ever before.
The Organic City, which will emerge organically during 2005-06, will use these technologies to create a collaborative digital storyworld centered on the downtown Oakland areas surrounding Lake Merritt.
The project seeks to connect with the community through this website where you can find and tell stories about local places. In addition, the project offers mobile media that can be experienced onsite with mobile media players and Pocket PC's.
Ultimately, we hope the project will allow us to explore the relationships between place, story, and community; as well as the ways in which new technologies can enhance our appreciation for these important components of human identity and experience.
Welcome to the Public Press, an emerging concept for a noncommercial daily Web/print/broadcast collaborative news service. The idea is to put journalism first -- operating as a nonprofit organization that prioritizes public service over commerce.
One idea is to eliminate advertising altogether, creating a robustly independent specialized vehicle for serious news. A newspaper born in the 21st century could experiment with new forms of "reverse" publishing -- pulling commentary, blogs and alternative news perspectives into print dynamically.
THE SECRET NEWS reflects a better vision for Emeryville, one that addresses the needs and desires of the people who live and work here. It was born out of frustration and some outrage over the direction the city is headed, and the desire for something better. Citizens are demanding better schools, quality housing and jobs, more parks, and neighborhoods safe from excessive traffic, pollution, and noise. We want a city government that is accountable to the people it serves. At a community meeting in Emeryville in June 2008, residents discussed their vision for Emeryville and what community benefits the city should provide. It was decided that a newspaper would be a great way to reinforce that vision, keep people informed and involved, and provide an alternative to the misinformation generated by the City Council and Chamber of Commerce. THE SECRET NEWS aims to provide Emeryville residents with a way to participate in shaping the future of their city.
I’m excited to share what is happening around Montclair. We live in a place that is a “great escape,” in my humble opinion. It’s wonderful to be surrounded by peace, quiet, trees, deer, cool weather, morning fogs, and European-like vistas. Plus there are a handful of farm animals, squealing here in Oakland.Why am I blogging? Well, the opportunity caught my eye because I’m a typical dotcom executive. Also, I really enjoy the polyglot of humanity in our little neighborhood. It should be fun to share the everyday joys and woes of our community.
When I think of this neighborhood, its mostly filled with people who care about what they are doing but don’t particularly care about appearances and being noticed!
On the other hand, Montclair’s a place where shopkeepers recognize you and you’re easily “part of the community” whether you have kids, are single, retired, etc.
So, expect to read about what really matters, like food, hiking, seeing movies, and saying hello to all the neighborhood dogs. Plus anything I overhear at the coffee shops is fair game.
Cheers and welcome.
-Debby (aka MontclairOak)
Well it is unlike a blog.
That’s where the “un” part comes from.
A blog is the “unedited voice of a person” (someone said that).
This is the voice of no one. Still unedited though. :-)
The blogroll is called an “unblogroll” but unfortunately WordPress does not let you edit that so it must say it’s a blogroll, which is part of the un-ness of this thing. Don’t trust your eyes. Things are not what they seem!
It seems like Berkeley would be the place where a blog is un. Hence the un-ness of it all. It’s probably being written in Albany or El Cerrito. Places that claim not to be part of Berkeley, but we know better!
Fight Blight in South Berkeley-North Oakland
BLIGHT: The state or result of being blighted or deteriorated; dilapidation; decay; urban blight. Something that impairs growth, withers hopes and ambitions, or impedes progress and prosperity. To have a deleterious effect on; ruin
This site is produced by Tony Daysog, a long-time West Ender.
Mr. Daysog served on Alameda's City Council between 1996 and
2006, as well as on a number of other committees.
He is a Senior Associate with a Walnut Creek-based economic
development consulting company.
