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By steveinmarquee66 who writes: The Rolling Stones performing Satisfaction, live at Oakland Coliseum 9 November 1969(second show). Soundboard recording Jumping Jack Flash Carol Sympathy For The Devil Stray Cat Blues Prodigal Son You Gotta Move Love In Vain I'm Free Under My Thumb Midnight Rambler Live With Me Gimme Shelter Little Queenie (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction Honky Tonk Woman Street Fighting Man

More at Zennie62.com | Follow me on Twitter! | Get my widget! | Visit YouTube | Visit UShow.com Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums has called for reform of how police solve problems in the wake of the Oscar Grant shooting. I'm not sure if it's because we have more digital camcorders around than ever before, or there's something sinister in the way police are being trained today, or some combination of both, but we now have two disturbing examples of excessive force applied by the people we hire to protect and to serve. The first and most recent example comes from a Walmart in Columbus, Ohio . In the video below this elderly woman named Virginia Dodson reportedly of 84 years old is standing in a parking lot and holding a knife. The reason for holding the knife was that Dodson's daughter left her in her car while she went back into the store. The elder Dodson, an Alzheimer's Patient, got scared because she was alone and cut herself out of the car seat belt,

More at Zennie62.com | Follow me on Twitter! | Get my widget! | Visit YouTube | Visit UShow.com On YouTube.com LakeFest is a street fair that was held last Saturday and Sunday August 1st and 2nd on Lakeshore Avenue between Lake Park and Mandana near the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland. After a long absence, it's back for its second year and with great bands and vendors selling clothes and representing everything from the new Lake Chalet restaurant to "Friends of the Oakland Public Library." I talked with a number of Oaklanders about the festival because there was a long period of time that, well, there was not an event of this kind at this location. That is until Helen Wyman stepped in. Helen Wyman is an event producer currently best known for the first, successful Uptown street fair held June 18th of this year. She explained that this event has nothing to do with the version of year's past and is brand new. "'LakeFest' was a concept we

More at Zennie62.com | Follow me on Twitter! | Get my widget! | Visit YouTube | Visit UShow.com On YouTube.com In the ongoing gaga of the Parkway and Cerrito theaters in Oakland and El Cerrito respectively we have read or heard the views of many people over the past seven months except two: Catherine and Kyle Fisher, who created both the Parkway Theater in Oakland, California and the Cerrito Theater in El Cerrito, California.  I was honored to be given the exclusive first video interview with the Fishers over brunch at the Lakeshore Cafe in Oakland.   They talked with me on video for 19 straight minutes - nothing edited - about what happened that led to the closure of the Oakland Parkway Theater and that led to the current very messy relationship between the Fishers and the El Cerrito Redevelopment Agency (ERA) regarding the Cerrito Theater, a situation which saw the Fishers lose that business too , and watch as the owners of the Rialto stepped in to take over.  Firs

From LakeViewFriends on YouTube. (I wish these video channel owners would let me know when they put out a video!) who wrote: "This is a short video about the history of Lakeview Library, near the top of Lake Merritt in Oakland, California"

From Contra Costa Times on YouTube - The Oakland Women's Rowing Club (OWRC) has been rowing on Lake Merritt since 1916. The Ladies of the Lake as they are known, row every Wednesday morning. Their ages range from 50-80s.