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Oakland People's Parks
BY Oakbook
Back in the 1970s, 175 City workers maintained 900 acres of parkland. Today, Oakland’s public works agency has 72 full-time employees tending 1,350 acres of parks, medians, and open space. The department is stretched so thin that last March, City officials announced that 212 locations would be designated non-priority. These neighborhood parks, medians, plazas, and other areas lost their trashcans and are no longer gardened. But a volunteer organization working to help maintain Oakland’s parks reports that the situation is not as bad as it might be.  
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The Month Ahead in Oakland Art
Common threads are often ill-tailored. And at their worst, jerry-built unified theories force connections where there aren't any. There is no theme this month, no critical discourse binding these offerings. But the fact there is little to link these shows is testament to the diversity of the art one can find in any giv...
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Op-ed: Rediscovering the Paramount 
The Paramount Theater has been the subject of much discussion lately. And even as that continues, what strikes me how little people know about this Oakland treasure. Allow me to give you a brief history of the Paramount Theater....
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Run Oakland Run
The race starts in the DTO and heads toward Piedmont. From there it charts a path through Temescal before looping back uphill toward Rockridge and Montclair. Then it’s downhill to Fruitvale, a straight, mostly level course along International Boulevard before cutting through Chinatown to Jack London Square. After t...
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The bad news continues to pour in from Haiti. Even as humanitarian agencies rush to provide help, there’s a lot of chatter about the possibility of such an earthquake striking the >>>
Oakland's Indestructible Bird
Once a delicacy on Gold Rush-era menus, the California clapper rail was hunted to near extinction. Today, Oakland's Arrowhead Marsh is the staging ground for a remarkable comeback >>>
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