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A new lawsuit seeks public records related to a wave of OPD raids on street vendors.

Head to the link in bio for more details.

Reported by Jose Fermoso
Video courtesy of Courtesy of Anita Miralle by @theoaklandside

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The dive bar has been in Oakland for eight decades. An Oakland Tribune edition dated Oct. 9, 1941, features a Notice of Hearing for a cabaret license for a place called The 2101 Club. The place appears to have retained “2101” as part of its name through its many iterations. In the 1920s, the bar used to be a store called Hopkins Street Groceria. The bar is now owned by two brothers, Tony and Danny Duncan. They bought this bar in 2014, and Laurel Lounge, just one neighborhood over, in 2017.

Richard Perez, who was born and raised in Oakland, has a long history with the Duncan brothers, dating back to when the 19-year-old Perez worked at Sportmart — a shuttered sports store in San Leandro — with Danny.

He has been working in nightlife for close to two decades, and has been a bartender at 2101 and Laurel Lounge since 2018. He pulls the Monday morning shift at 2101, and the closing one on Thursdays. Then he manages Laurel Lounge on Fridays and bartends there on Sundays.

Read more at the link in bio.

Reported by @chroniclesofazu
Photographed by @sbmaneyphoto taken in Oakland, California by @theoaklandside

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A few months ago, chatter began circulating online about the closure of The New Parish, the intimate music venue in Uptown Oakland that captured the hearts of music fans with its eclectic bookings.

The building on San Pablo Avenue, which opened its doors as The New Parish in October 2009 with a show headlined by singer songwriter Alex Cuba and DJ Bobbito, already had deep ties to Oakland’s music and nightlife landscape.

“In the case of opening New Parish, I felt that Oakland needed and deserved a legit live music club, and I thought I could provide that,” Michael O’Connor, the club’s founder and longtime owner, told The Oaklandside. “I knew it was going to be hard. I knew it was going to be a risk. Nothing was easy. Nothing was handed to me. Permits weren’t handed to me. Money wasn’t handed to me. Everything was stressful.”

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Reported by @chroniclesofazu
Photos by @amirazizphoto ; Robert Glasper; Eric Arnold; Gina Madrid; Azucena Rasilla
G-Eazy video by Azucena Rasilla taken in Oakland, California by @theoaklandside

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Chantal Morales Rojas’ friends say they are trying to free the 27-year-old software engineer from a detention center experiencing a tuberculosis outbreak.

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Reported by Darwin BondGraham taken in Oakland, California by @theoaklandside

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There’s so much to do this summer weekend in The Town 💙☀️

What else is happening in The Town this weekend? Drop any other events we didn’t feature in the comments 👇🏼

✍🏼 Azucena Rasilla (@chroniclesofazu)

If you would like us to consider an event for this weekly list, please email Azucena at azucena@oaklandside.org. You can also use the self-submission form on our events page to add it to our calendar for free.

#OaklandCA #BayArea #TownBiz by @theoaklandside

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Punk fans are taking over Mosswood Park for the annual Mosswood Meltdown music festival 💙 There's so much going on in The Town this weekend! ☀️

What else is happening in The Town this weekend? Drop any other events we didn’t feature in the comments 👇🏼

✍🏼 Azucena Rasilla (@chroniclesofazu)

If you would like us to consider an event for this weekly list, please email Azucena at azucena@oaklandside.org. You can also use the self-submission form on our events page to add it to our calendar for free.

#OaklandCA #BayArea #TownBiz by @theoaklandside

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Don’t miss the “Love Island USA” finale watch party at @51andtel this Sunday, July 12 💗🏝️

Head to the link in bio for more!

Video and reporting by @calliopearkilic

#LoveIslandUSA #WatchParty #OaklandCA #BayArea #TownBiz taken in Oakland, California by @theoaklandside

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There is so much happening in Oakland this weekend that we had to throw in a bonus event. That’s what summer in The Town is like 💙☀️

What else is happening in The Town this weekend? Drop any other events we didn’t feature in the comments 👇🏼

✍🏼 Azucena Rasilla (@chroniclesofazu)

If you would like us to consider an event for this weekly list, please email Azucena at azucena@oaklandside.org. You can also use the self-submission form on our events page to add it to our calendar for free.

#OaklandCA #BayArea #TownBiz taken in Oakland, California by @theoaklandside

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The new restaurant is a mix of the classics, fresh updates, and features two colorful underwater murals from Bay Area artists.

Head to the link in bio for the full look into Bar Skula, the Luka’s remix.

Video and reporting by Azucena Rasilla @chroniclesofazu taken in San Francisco, California by @theoaklandside

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In the olden days, in many cultures, a person’s name could tell you a lot about them. Often it referenced someone’s trade or the family business. Or maybe it indicated where, exactly, they lived.

These days, it’s typically a delightful coincidence if something central about a person’s life, like their career, complements their name.

The late, legendary San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen enjoyed discovering and documenting these aptronyms. He dubbed their owners “namephreaks” and shouted them out in his columns.

We found several people in this position living and working in Oakland. Tap the link in bio to read the full story.

Reporting by Natalie Orenstein.
Photos 1, 3 and 4 by @estefancy for The Oaklandside. Photo 2 courtesy of Dr. Joel Parrott. by @theoaklandside

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Have you heard? Berkeley got goop’d … or did it? We sampled takeout dishes from Gwyneth Paltrow’s latest wellness venture @goopkitchen 🥗

Hosted by @the.skybook
Featuring Tovin Lapan and @calliopearkilic
Produced by @myroncari

#TasteTest #GwynethPaltrow #BayAreaFoodies #FoodTikTok #GoopKitchen @goop @gwynethpaltrow taken in Oakland, California by @theoaklandside

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