January 2007
Photo © Gwen Harlow
A bit late but it's good through March.
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Original photo
January 14, 2007
June 02, 2006
What Are We Missing?
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.
May 24, 2006
Carnaval SF
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.
May 15, 2006
Church of Craft
The San Francisco chapter of the Church of Craft meets at Rock Paper Scissors Collective this Sunday for a free one-hour granny square-making workshop at noon followed by an afternoon of crafting and potluck (1-5pm).
Community craft meets are a great opportunity for those who have a million projects going on at once but never seem to have time to finish any of them, and for people who like being with other people.
The Church of Craft meets monthly, visit their site for more information and to sign up for their newsletter.
May 11, 2006
Lake Merritt Birding
Photo by Bradford deCaussin
Lake Merritt
Saturday, May 20, 2006
Meet at 8 a.m. at the large spherical cage near Nature Center at Perkins & Bellevue Sts. Designed for novice and intermediate birders, this trip provides an introduction to birding as well as opportunity to study birds more difficult to identify. First half focuses on water birds. Second half is in parklands bordering lake where we expect to see smaller birds. Vagrant species occur frequently at Lake Merritt. Route is handicapped accessible.
Lake Merritt and Lakeside Park
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Meet at 9:30 a.m. beside the spherical cage by children's art center, just up Bellevue from Nature Center at Perkins and Bellevue Sts. We'll go down to the lake toward Embarcadero or up path across street from Nature Center to Children's Fairyland and back through fenced garden. Trip ends at noon or before.
More info about Golden Gate Audobon Field Trips.
Bike Tours of Oakland
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.
May 10, 2006
Port of Oakland Harbor Tours
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.