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12 Mar 2021

Cowgirl Creamery is Closing the Ferry Building Location

I don’t know about you, but I love cheese more than I like most people. And I’m a people person, which goes to show now much I love cheese. So this is obviously a bummer considering how wonderful Cowgirl Creamery‘s cheese is. According to the Chronicle, after 18 years Cowgirl

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12 Mar 2021

These Oakland Eateries are Feeding People in Need During the Pandemic

“…There is no place too far or disaster too great for our chefs to be there with a hot plate of food when it’s needed most. Wherever there’s a fight so hungry people may eat, we will be there – we must be there…. We envisioned an organization that would

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11 Mar 2021

Amazingly Bad Pet Portraits Offered by Oakland Animal Services!

Every now and again something amazing happens in the world of bad pet art.  And when that happens, rest assured www.brokeassstuart.com is on the case!  

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11 Mar 2021

5 Cutty Hiking Spots to Check Out in the East Bay

When people think of hiking in the East Bay, especially newcomers, they think of Oakland and Berkeley, and even more specifically, they think of a handful of places in Oakland and Berkeley that everyone has already been to and instragrammed to death. The East Bay is a lot bigger than

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11 Mar 2021

LA Postal Workers Caught Defrauding EDD of $200k 

They are charged with using California Employment Development Department (EDD) debit cards to buy money orders and to withdraw cash for themselves.

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10 Mar 2021

When The Cartoon Character Tattooed On Your Rear End Gets Cancelled

I got the cartoon skunk Pepé Le Pew tattooed on my right fanny cheek back in 1992, when I was 21 years old. Mind you, this was a time when a blockbuster indie hit movie Dazed and Confused featured a Matthew McConaughey character whose running “joke” was that he was

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09 Mar 2021

Piedmont Piano Keeps Live Music Alive and Artists Fed

I had about 20 minutes to spare before I was supposed to give Jim Callahan a call — they were in the middle of a concert session at Oakland’s Piedmont Piano, so I tuned in to the livestream and stumbled on a few minutes of pure joy. The scene was

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05 Mar 2021

SF Breaks Ground on Affordable Housing for People Exiting Homelessness

San Francisco city leaders on Thursday celebrated the groundbreaking of a future affordable housing complex in the city’s South of Market neighborhood that is set to provide housing for 96 people exiting homelessness. The $52 million project at 53 Colton St. is expected to completed by late 2022. “Projects like

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