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Born and raised in Oakland, Malika Andrews is a rising star in sports journalism and the host of ABC’s “NBA Countdown” studio show.
Educators face ballooning class sizes and dwindling resources as billionaires seek to expand charter schools.
After the Yemen native and Muslim American voted for Donald Trump, and after Trump tried...
I’ll never forget the first time I experienced Oakland’s Creative Growth, the oldest and largest non-profit arts center in the world for adults with developmental, mental and physical disabilities. I was there to tour the…
Chinese immigrants first arrived in San Francisco in 1848. By the end of the 1850s, they made up one-fifth of the population in the Southern Mines.
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I’ll never forget the first time I experienced Oakland’s Creative Growth, the oldest and largest non-profit arts center in the world for adults with developmental, mental and physical disabilities. I was there to tour the…
An Oakland skateboarder found hundreds of stolen photo slides dumped on the street, and went out of his way to get them home safely
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Pentti Sammallahti, les Nadar, Dorothea Lange et plein d'autres.
The Bridge Shall be Built... The Emperor has so decreed that there shall be a Bridge across our Bay (and, in the future, when said bridge is completed, it shall be named after me, so get over it) _______________________________________________________________________ WHEREAS, we issued our decree ordering the citizens of San Francisco and Oakland to appropriate funds for the survey of a suspension bridge from Oakland Point via Goat Island; also for a tunnel; and to ascertain which is the best project; and whereas the said citizens have hitherto neglected to notice our said decree; and whereas we are determined our authority shall be fully respected; now, therefore, we do hereby command the arrest by the army of both the Boards of City Fathers if they persist in neglecting our decrees. Given under our royal hand and seal at San Francisco, this 17th day of September, 1872 –Emperor Norton, (c.1818-1880) Order a print of the Emperor _______________________________________________________________________ Sign up to name the Bridge after Emperor Norton Today! _______________________________________________________________________ The following is decreed and ordered to be carried into execution as soon as convenient: That a suspension bridge be built from Oakland Point to Goat Island, and then to Telegraph Hill; provided such bridge can be built without injury to the navigable waters of the Bay of San Francisco. That the Central Pacific Railroad Company be granted franchises to lay down tracks and run cars from Telegraph Hill and along the city front to Mission Bay. That all deeds by the Washington Government since the establishment of our Empire are hereby decreed null and void unless our Imperial signature is first obtained thereto. March 1872 Website with the full array of Proclamation by the Emperor: http://www.notfrisco.com/nortoniana/ here is the rest of the story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton link to the campaign:http://www.emperorsbridge.org/introduction/ From the Campaign website: "But it’s not only Emperor Norton’s connection to the Bay Bridge itself that warrants naming the bridge for him. The Emperor was a champion of racial and religious unity; an advocate for women’s suffrage; and a defender of the public interest, above all. He was known for his kindness. He was both passionate and whimsical. Not least, in asserting his own right to be heard, he stood for the outsider, the dreamer and for the idea that people should be accepted for who they are. In all of these ways, the Emperor was himself a “bridge” who embodied and heralded the values of tolerance and eccentricity that came to be associated with San Francisco, Oakland and the Bay Area." _______________________________________________________________________ You can follow today's Emperor here on Facebook: _______________________________________________________________________ Background The Emperor was England born and journeyed to California during the Gold Rush in 1849. Arriving via South Africa he had initial windfalls from real estate and various ventures until he became penniless via a poorly conceived plan to order the rice market. Ultimately, his palace was less than palatial as he reigned from a rooming house at 624 Commercial Street was less than salubrious. Nonetheless,was given a pass wherever he went, given the best seat in the best restaurants of the day with never a bill to be presented. A general at the Presidio provided his uniform, which as it eventually deteriorated, the Board of Supervisers pitched in a provided another. At the time, the Emperor was not alone with respect to the eccentrics of the day. One street character had dubbed himself George Washington II, adorned in Revolutionary War garb, there was the Money King who celebrated his position as a skin flint, and even a bizarre man who simply went by the title of the Great Unknown. Were they smoking something back then? Who know, but the Emperor seems the one who has staid the test of time and with us to this day. _______________________________________________________________________ Hand-tinted by Bennett Hall, 2015 Order a print of the Emperor from San Francisco Images
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Last November, I wrote about the textile artist and weaver Anni Albers as my Designer of the Month. This November, I'm going to be discussing another textile artist and weaver, a contemporary of Albers who is of special interest to me not only because of her amazing work, but also because I spent a year researching and writing about her for my Master's thesis. That's right my friends, I'm talking about Trude Guermonprez. While I am very aware that the name probably doesn't ring any bells for most people, especially not in the way that Anni Albers' name does, I hope that by the end of the month, you'll all see just what exactly is so interesting about this talented woman. Watch out now, because this is where the real decorative arts and design dork in me gets to shine. Courtesy of the Trude Guermonprez Archives, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Library, New York. Trude Guermonprez (1910-1976), born Gertrud Jalowetz, dedicated her life to the fiber arts.[1] Guermonprez was born in Danzig, Germany into a family of artists. She chose to stay in Europe and work in the textile industry while her parents and sister fled to the United States to teach at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, escaping the rise of National Socialism.[2] Guermonprez came to textiles, and to weaving in particular, during her education at the Municipal School of Arts and Crafts at Halle, Germany.[3] Known as the “Little Bauhaus” because of the large number of faculty who studied there, the Municipal School of Arts and Crafts was where pupils disseminated the ideals and principles of the school, and was influential in shaping Guermonprez’s aesthetic and weaving style.[4] The effects of this education had a lasting impact on Guermonprez’s work and subsequent teaching style. The school continued to influence Guermonprez throughout her life, affecting the choice of institutions in which she would spend her time once immigrating to the United States. But that's a story for next week. Just like with Albers, I'm going to spend this month discussing Guermonprez's career chronologically, looking at her time teaching at Black Mountain College in week 2, her experience at the Pond Farm Workshops and her "textile graphics" pieces in week 3, and her three-dimensional and portrait works in week 4. [1] Jan Janeiro, "Trude Guermonprez: A Quiet Journey," Surface Design Journal, (Fall 1991), 6. [2] Ibid., 6. [3] Ibid., 6. [4] Ibid., 6.
The Oakland Tribune has escaped death before, from the era in the 1980s when its...
The credits have rolled on the last late-night screening, the box office curtain is closed, the ushers have done their rounds and popcorn machines are turned off. Now is our chance; we emerge from our hiding place in the back row. The cinema is ours. This is the sort of private tour that French p
Tens of thousands of people marched through downtown Oakland Saturday afternoon for the Women's March, one of hundreds happening worldwide in response to the inauguration of President Donald Trump.
It’s been 91 years since celebrity aviator Charles Lindbergh’s baby was kidnapped, a crime that plunged the nation into a paroxysm of anguish that ended with the capture of a German immigrant named Bruno Richard Hauptmann. Prosecutors at the time said he snatched the child to squeeze a $50,000 ransom from the family, but to the day he was executed in the electric chair, Hauptmann insisted he was innocent.
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This week’s arrest of a 26-year-old Texas “Boogaloo Boi” for opening fire on a Minneapolis police station with a semiautomatic rifle, and later participating in an act of arson against the station, confirmed what many observers of the...
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When stepping inside, it feels like you're walking into a newly furnished home in the late 1960s
OAKLAND COUNTY, Mich. (WJRT) - The admitted Oxford High School shooter is scheduled for a hearing this summer to decide whether he can face a life-without-parole...
Fall 2015, Fall 2016 Instructors: Adam Marcus , Margaret Ikeda , Evan Jones As cities across the globe attempt to adapt to the uncertain implications of climate change, there is little doubt that rising ocean levels will have a tremendous impact on coastal cities worldwide, including t
In Chicago, a young Japanese man dangles from a lamp post to catch a glimpse of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.
Republican U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Channahon, an outspoken critic of former President Donald Trump and his GOP allies in Congress, said Sunday he has agreed to Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pe…
About a decade ago national publications started paying a lot of attention to Oakland’s food scene. The city burst out of San Francisco’s shadow to become a distinct culinary city in its own right. KQED Food Editor Luke Tsai writes that the buzziest of Oakland’s “golden age” restaurants were headed by women of color, “charismatic
Have fun in what you are doing. Celebrate the wins; small and large. Celebrate other people’s wins. Have fun, because it’s infectious. If…
Once, I bought a bag of dirt on the internet. I continue to be amazed by the variety of things you can buy on Amazon, but long ago, in the pages of the Sears Catalog, Amazon’s predecessor, you could even buy a house. Between the years of 1908 and 1942, the Sears Roebuck company sold more than 70,000 of these Sears Catalog homes, which were built in locations all over the country.
Merritt Lake in Oakland, California, has seen some crazy stuff. According to locals, creepy men are jogging there in Speedos and women are walking their cats on leashes. However, people think that a recent video by Michelle Dione has captured the weirdest incident that has ever happened there.
