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This video presents "SOL" , a sustainable garden farm in East Oakland, though where it is, I don't know. Keep a focus on the show's host as she's also the barista at De Bartolo's Cafe on Grand Avenue.

This video contains local jazz artist Betty Fu singing at the Oakland Chinatown StreetFest from this summer.

In this video, Oakland Mayor and California AG Candidate Jerry Brown is accused of breaking his old campaign promise of not taking over $100 in contributions. But what's interesting is that Mayor Brown's captured going to a spa reportedly in Sacramento and then getting into a Lincoln Town Car that looks like the Mayor's Lincoln owned by the City of Oakland. Is he using the Mayor's Lincoln for matters not city business? I think that's his right -- like going to the grocery store -- but I'm not sure about political campaigns.

Roy Steele has beeen the PA announcer for the Oakland Coliseum since 1968. This video's about him and includes comments from the public and even the opposing players.

This video I had nothing to do with; it features a tour of a luxury box in the East Side pavilion of the Oakland Coliseum and during the Oakland A's , Chicago White Sox baseball game. It's notable for its simple humor on top of the experience of filming the suite.

I found this video serendipitously and had to post it. It's totally funny. It reads that it's from the Oakland Chamber of Commerce, but I can't see Joe Haraburda, the Chamber's executive director, approving anything that has the comment "Well, that's cause you're a dumb-ass." Check it out:

This was posted at the Adams Point message board Dearest neighbors of the Cleveland Cascade, Our design team has been working hard and they're now ready to unveil the proposed Master Plan for the Cleveland Cascade for your input and comments! Please join us -- and the Oakland Public Works Agency -- for a Public Meeting on Monday, August 28th, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Lakeview Branch Library 550 El Embarcadero The landscape architects will present the proposed Master Plan that would guide the first phase of construction and site rehabilitation, funded by the $300,000 of Measure DD money allocated by the city council. This meeting is as much our opportunity to learn from you as vice versa. Please come, share you reactions, praises, criticisms, and hard questions. Your input will make this project stronger and better. It's your money and your Cascade. We'll be taking careful notes. And please stop by our updated web site at http://clevelandcascade.org