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Op-ed: Why Oakland?
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Oakland has long enjoyed a reputation for great music. Stars like John
Lee Hooker, Sly and The Family Stone, Pete Escovedo, M.C, Hammer and
Tower of Power have made it a magnet for “scene-sters” and, more than
anything else, drawn the across-the-Bay crowd. But when it comes to
great restaurants, the city has been m...
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Discovering Oakland Bike Polo
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Drawn by the sound of skids, squeals and the pounding of plastic
against pavement, I pedal to the outermost corner of the Rockridge BART
parking lot. It is Thursday night in Oakland and I’m digging into the
underground culture of bike polo. As I coast up, there are riders doing
tricks off to the side and six shadow...
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Oakland Art Gem
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Contrary to what you might gather from media coverage, art in Oakland
doesn’t begin with hipsters and end with activists. Oakland is not an
easy city to pigeonhole and neither is its art community. The city has
its long-lived art institutions like California College of the Arts and
the Oakland Museum of California....
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