Fresh!

Saturday, June 3: ZAP!dance with DJ Chad 10p-2a @ Golden Bull. No cover, dancing, dance, dance, dance, bring your dancing shoes. CD giveaway + 18 tons of fun.

Friday, June 2: First Friday art stroll 6-10pish.

Friday, June 2: Blues Night 5-9p @ Oakland Museum

Saturday & Sunday, June 3-4: East Bay Open Studios 10a-6p @ all over, featuring our own Presley!

Saturday & Sunday, June 3-4: Dress Like a Marine Geologist at the USGS Open House 10a-4p, Menlo Park.

All weekend: Some kind of bridge nonsense, BART running 24 hrs to Merritt, Macarthur and Coliseum.

Tuesday, June 6: election. Vote.

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Join Grand Marshal/Oakland's own Barbara Lee for San Francisco's take on this fine tradition of teeny-tiny spangly outfits paired with dancing! dancing! dancing! at the Carnaval SF parade, featuring over 80 groups sambaing up 24th and down Mission [map].

The Carnaval SF Festival, held all day Saturday and Sunday, offers food, music, arts and more along the five blocks of Harrison between 16th and 23rd Streets.

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Free bicycle tours of Oakland every third Sunday of the summer months.

Do you know where the Spice King, Adolph Shilling, lived in Oakland? Or the chocolate magnate Domingo Ghiradelli? Want to see the homes of Gertrude Stein, Jack London and Borax Smith? Explore Oakland with the docents of the Oakland Museum of California. Learn about the incredible history of the city and its visionaries and scoundrels (often one and the same). The leisurely paced two-hour tours are about five miles long, with no hills. Participants must be over twelve years old and provide their own bikes, helmets and repair kits.

2006 Schedule
Tours leave promptly at 10 a.m. from the museum's 10th Street entrance.
May 21
June 18
July 16
August 20
September 17
October 15

Reservations required: (510) 238-3514 or jcollignon@museumca.org.

More Oakland Museum events

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Photo by Christopher Hall

2006 schedule
Thursday, June 15 (we're signed up for this one)
Thursday, July 20
Thursday, August 17
Thursday, September 21
Thursday, October 19
Tours run twice daily at 10:30 am & 1:00 pm. Boarding time is 30 minutes prior to departure. Departure times are 10:30am and 1:00pm.

More info and RSVP early here.

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