Take the time to participate in one of the many remembrances in your community. They gave months, years, blood, sweat, tears and lives. Give them a few hours.Celebrations will be held on Monday at Oakland's Mountain View Cemetery, Alameda's USS Hornet, San Francisco's Continue Reading
August Vollmer had a reputation as the "father of modern law enforcement" for his modernization of the Berkeley Police Department in the early 20th Century.Barbara Gilbert, "An Independent Voice For District 5 and the Entire Berkeley Community" just forwarded this piece Continue Reading
At Oakland Paramount Theatre for Leonard Cohen concert.The average age is gray alte kakke.Carol wouldn't join me for an evening of lugubrious music, Suzanne is down by the river, and I just couldn't ask Debbie Downer because she couldn't take the music's upbeat tempo and Continue Reading
Blacksmiths? In Oakland? That's right - There's a blacksmith in Rockridge. Eric Clausen designed beautiful iron railings for us - His web site is http://clauseniron.com and we highly recommend him. Continue Reading
Great buffet selection at Whole Foods Market on Harrison in Lake Merritt neighborhood in Oakland Continue Reading
A local Real Estate Law firm used my photo of the #Oakland Fox in their newsletter and invited me to an update on the Hetch Hetchy Water System at Scott's in Jack London Square Continue Reading