Saturday, September 3, 2011
ONE MAN'S TRASH...
Photo: Deyes "The Bulb", Albany
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Sleep, What's That?
CRIMPSHRINE
1988 Lookout!
Friday, August 26, 2011
Saturday, August 20, 2011
BAD JAIL FOOD ALLEGED IN MILL VALLEY
NBC Bay Area: News/Weird Chris Roberts - Sunday, August 14, 2011
"Things are different in Marin County. There, folks complain over the quality of food in the jail.
But that's only part of the story of David McDonald, a Mill Valley store owner who authorities accused of sellling drugs out of his store, The Pleasure Principle, which operated in the oft-posh Marin County city for over 40 years, according to the Marin Independent Journal.
Many of the charges originally levied against McDonald have been dropped -- for example, he's no longer accused of selling methamphetamine, but a substance that looks like meth.
McDonald denies the charges and says "I'm cautiously optimistic" he'll win those charges. In the meantime, McDonald says that the Marin County Jail refused to serve him vegetarian meals, and as a result, he lost 40 pounds while in jail for 14 weeks, the newspaper reported.
McDonald was horrified to see "chunks of meat" in the gravy on his rice and potatoes, the newspaper reported, and with a lack of options, he skipped many meals while subsisting on oatmeal, apples and bread, he said.
Jailkeepers didn't accomodate his diet. "I said I don't want animal corpses on my plate," he told the newspaper. "They just didn't get it.""
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Killer on Craigs List
TEXAS THIEVES
2004 Dr. Strange
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
COULD YOUR SCHOOL BE NEXT?!
Friday, August 19 - 5pm to 10pm Actual Café, Oakland
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Various
ROCK 'N' ROLL HIGH SCHOOL
1979 Sire
Saturday, August 13, 2011
ROYAL JOKERS CC: BOMBAS
Photo: Carlos Valteau 1/4LB Giant Burgers, Oakland
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Self-Titled
RITCHIE VALENS
1959 Deli-Fi
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
CONTEMPT OF COP
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Fear of Life
CH3
1982 Posh Boy
Sunday, August 7, 2011
灯籠流し
Photo: Holly Healy Aquatic Park, Berkeley
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Self-Titled II
SWANN DANGER
2008 Custody Night School
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Thursday, July 28, 2011
CHINESE PORK BUNS
LISTENING
Can't Stand Modern Music
THE CUTE LEPERS
2008 1-2-3-4 GO!
Saturday, July 23, 2011
BAY AREA APARTMENT TO REQUIRE DOG POO DNA SAMPLES?
A Redwood City apartment complex stands to be the first in the Bay Area to track lazy dog owners who don't pick up after their pets using a DNA database. A database of dog turd samples, that is. Apparently fed up with all of the messes left for her to step in, apartment manager Mary Michaels plans to require residents to submit their pet's stool samples to create "poop-prints". Any fresh steamers left around the grounds will then be checked against the, uh... prints and the offending owner gets dinged a $60 fee to pay for the cost of the test.
PoopPrints.com, the Tennessee-based company that provides fecal DNA testing services says that last year Consumer Reports put dog poop as number 6 on the list of America's Top Gripes.
For her part, Michaels told KTVU, "I can hardly wait to get this thing going," presumably while scratching at the door and holding a leash in her mouth.
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Sleep Talk
SHANNON AND THE CLAMS
2011 1-2-3-4 GO!
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Sunday, July 10, 2011
HUNDREDS OF JOBS SPARED, SACRIFICED IN NEW OAKLAND BUDGET
"OAKLAND -- With the city's six-month struggle to close a projected $58 million budget deficit temporarily settled Thursday night, residents can finally parse through which jobs and services were cut and which, for the time being, were saved.
All the city's major labor unions have announced tentative contracts that would help the city with concessions such as furlough days and pension contributions.
Adding to that are numerous cuts and new revenue sources spread out across most city departments, including:
Installation of 269 new parking meters, including 100 in the Eastlake area and 169 in an Interstate 580 underpass parking lot.
Elimination of misdemeanor prosecutions by the Oakland City Attorney's office, which will likely slow or halt enforcement of recent city laws against prostitution and illegal dumping and leave those cases in the hands of the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.
Sale of the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center.
Planned police officer attrition -- losing officers to retirement or resignation -- at the rate of four officers a month, up almost one full officer position from Mayor Jean Quan's projections. Police officials say that number has been higher, five or six officers per month, for most of this year, but that may change with San Jose and San Francisco laying off officers and reducing pay, giving Oakland officers less attractive reasons for leaving.
It's a murkier picture looking at what was spared, because additional cuts may be necessary in the coming months as the effects of state and federal budget changes trickle down."
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Dead Broke in the USA
HARRINGTON SAINTS
2009 Longshot Music/Contra
Saturday, July 9, 2011
BURGER RENEWAL
East Bay Express: Food & Drink John Birdsall - Wednesday, June 22, 2011
"Somebody wanted to open a McDonald's here, then Fatburger made a play, then a developer offered to tear it all down and build condos. But Kwik Way found an unlikely savior, someone who'd forged a connection to Oakland amid the leafy comforts of College Avenue, up where the jogging strollers of Rockridge give way to the double-wides of Elmwood - Somerset's Gary Rizzo.
It was exactly two years ago that Rizzo pulled the trigger on the Kwik Way, which had been dark for a half-decade by then. "It's amazing that it survived, but it's an architectural icon," Rizzo said. "People had so many good memories here; it puzzled me that it sat empty for so long. I saw it as potential - every time I drove by it I thought, 'This should be reopened.'"
Little did he know he'd clock many more drive-bys as he found his way through the permitting obstacles. Councilwoman Pat Kernighan helped - she showed up for the victory-lap grand opening last month, after Kwik Way's unofficial launch in April, and a renovation Rizzo describes as "phased."
The city said he couldn't do drive-through, and had to put in outdoor tables (there are five). The ghost of Kwik Way's old menu still hovers around the place, in the shadow of letters up on the metal arch: Pies Shakes Bar-B-Q. ... They give mute expression to Rizzo's challenge: How to rehab a menu that bears such heavy finger stains of Oakland nostalgia, overwritten with expectations of urban renewal."
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Self-Titled
 KWIK WAY
1986 Golden Star
Thursday, July 7, 2011
AC TRANS(M)IT
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Give War a Chance
WARKRIME
2006 No Way
Saturday, July 2, 2011
A MODEST PROPOSAL: FOR A "SAFE AND SANE" 4TH IN RICHMOND
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Back from Samoa
ANGRY SAMOANS
1982 Bad Trip