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Anti-plywood activism?

Sunday, January 18, 2009

They say that people in San Francisco will protest absolutely anything. After seeing this banner hanging on a building under renovation in North Beach, I can see what they mean.

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Lux et Lex

Friday, January 16, 2009

May the light of justice shine upon Oakland: The setting sun shining through and around the Alameda County Courthouse across Lake Merritt.

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An East Oakland Shipwreck

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

To a lot of people, the words “East Oakland” conjure up thoughts of poverty and crime, liquor stores and drugs, sideshows and Raiders fans, hyphy and scraper bikes. And indeed, you can find all these things in East Oakland, some of them in larger quantities than you might like. What many people in Oakland (and […]

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Circle, Square, Triangle

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Every time I talk to someone who works in newspapers, or who used to work in newspapers, the conversation inevitably turns to the fate of the industry. Someone here in Oakland seems to be doing their best to keep newspapers alive: Or maybe no papers get delivered to this address at all. Those colorful boxes […]

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Special Sale! Misfortunes

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Like something out of Lewis Carroll, in Oakland’s chinatown: I couldn’t buy any misfortunes because the fortune cookie factory was closed that day, but I peeked inside and discovered that misfortunes go for a buck fifty a bag — cheaper than kettle corn, and less fattening!

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The Revolution Will Not Be Text Messaged?

Thursday, January 1, 2009

A front gate in Berkeley. Photo taken with my cell phone, of course.

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