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 July-August 2011

July-August 2011

 

July-August 2011, Volume 8, Number 4

July-August Features

Winners Winners Winners Everywhere!

by (Photography by Susan Burdick)

Our Oakland is an oasis of Middle Eastern markets, a retro-hipster’s shopping paradise and ground zero for a new beer-centric revolution. Oaktown is Vietnamese food with a view, gluten-free...

Learning, Eating at Ozumo's Sushi 101

by Janelle Bitker (Photography by Janelle Bitker)

There’s a reason why sushi chefs look so cheerful behind the counter — they start their shifts with a shot of sake.

Seamless Renovation

by Gina Jaber

It’s not often — if ever — you hear a couple, when finished with a major 18-month house renovation say, “It was a really fun process.” But that’s what Kay and Dale Emerson said after...

July-August Departments

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Wine Country, Somewhere

by Kent Rosenblum

When I look back to our travels over the years, I find that most of the time when Kathy and I wound up in wine country somewhere — it could be France, Italy, Argentina or Australia — we have...

Rising Up

by Christopher Danzig(Photography by Chris Duffey)

It’s hard to describe exactly what Youth Uprising does, because the 5-year-old East Oakland nonprofit does so much.

The Positive Approach

by Nate Seltenrich(Photography by Lori Eanes)

No one said it’d be easy. But Oakland’s new mayor, Jean Quan, is up against some long odds. Entering the 2011–13 budget cycle, her city was $58 million in the hole and forced to reduce its...

Oakland Made

by Anna Mindess(Photography by Deborah Sherman)

Standing at the door to his Oakland factory, Nick Kelley, founder of kaia foods, exudes vibrant good health. Whatever he’s cooking up inside seems to be quite effective.

Coffee Pedalers

by Karen T. Hartline(Photography by Jan Sturmann)

Oakland has benefited from some brilliant ideas in the past — Art Murmur, Children’s Fairyland, any of Arizmendi’s pizzas — but who knew the greatest idea was yet to come?

Where It's At

by Kimberly Chun(Photography by Jan Sturmann)

O, what weird, wondrous webs we weave — in the pursuit of expressing our strangest, most surreal, most blissed-out space-rocking visions.

Offbeat Art

by CD

Feminist Mash-up

Starring: Oakland

by Karen T. Hartline(Photography by Chris Duffey)

Ami Zins on Reel Life

Secret Eats

by Kimberly Chun(Photography by Jan Sturmann)

Asiya Wadud

The Six Questions

by Ginny Prior(Photography by Jan Sturmann)

Lisa Malione-Brenkman of Oakland

Light Bright Knight

by Linda Childers (Photography by Jim Rizzo)

Champion of Neon Treasures

Block Party

by Karen T. Hartline(Photography by Lori Eanes)

That Little Something

History Lesson

by Ann Leslie Davis

A Hostelry With History

Firsts

by Jeff Swenerton

Everyone knows that San Jose has a song written about it, and that San Francisco has a pretty good baseball team, but when it comes to firsts, no Bay Area city can beat O-Town.

Passions

by Andrew Gilbert(Photography by Lenny Gonzalez)

The Visual Odyssey of Music Photographer Lenny Gonzalez

Taste of the Town

by Derk Richardson(Photography by Susan Burdick)

Less Is More at Boot and Shoe Service

Out on the Town

by Linda Leonard

What's going on in the months of July and August!

Media Shelf: Books

by Judith M. Gallman

New Books from the Bay Area

Green Business