Oakland Local: News for the people

Hyperlocal. Citizen journalism.  User generated content. All of these new buzzwords are being thrown around as possible solutions to the current journalism crisis.  All around the country some really brilliant people are producing some really great projects in a collective  effort to save the news business.  Or at least to shape what comes after it’s demise.

We recently threw our hat into this idealistic ring with the hopes that we can better serve the Oakland public and turn some of those buzzwords into tangible next steps and a sustainable journalism model.  This past Monday we launched Oakland Local, a new hyperlocal news site that incorporates traditional journalism with multimedia, user generated content and citizen journalism all in one place.

Filed under: Media, News, Oakland , journalism, Media, new media, Oakland, startups

Remember when Freestyle DID NOT equal written raps?

This makes me smile. A lot.

more about “Freestyle 101 with Doseone and Jel | …“, posted with vodpod

I’ve been getting my grumpy old man on for a minute when it comes to the current crop of “freestyle” MC’s and their shifting idea of what that means: spitting prewrittens, doing internet research and bringing out all types of props and skits and ish.

Filed under: Music, Oakland , Art, Bay Area, Doseone, freestyle, Hip Hop, MC, Oakland

And God said let there be Fire!

For the next few days West O’s gonna be a lot hotter than normal as the Crucible’s 9th annual Fire Arts Festival ignites the nights around West Grand Ave.

As if the field across from the Crucible’s digs on 7th wasn’t huge enough, this year the festival’s migrated a few blocks East  to abandoned lot even more appropriate to set shit on fire.

At $85-95 tix are a litte steep for the average broke ass artist, but it’s all for a good cause-the Crucible’s youth workshops and scholaship programs.  So you get to see some awesome as fuck flaming art and feel like a bug wig arts patron for the night.  Flame on Bitches!

Filed under: Art, Oakland , Fire Arts, Fire Arts Festival, Oakland, the Crucible, Warehouse Art

11/18 Urban Real(i)ty Art and Poetry Show-Bring ya Asses!!!!

So I’m involved in this event so I have an admitted bias, but hell-it’s gonna be one fly ass event so I think it’s warranted, yes?

Prosody Castle and Otherside Media Present

Urban Real(i)ty

Filed under: Art, Galleries, Graffiti, Oakland, Poetry, Promotions, Street Art , Aimee Suzara, Chris Stroffolino, d. scot miller, Danny King, Gallery of Urban Art, Peter Spannagle, Prosody Castle

Ron Dellums Endorses Clinton

Clinton: Act Like Americans

 People  |   Kwan Booth  |  October 1, 2007 at 6: 53 PM

From Novometro.com

Mayor Dellums officially endorsed Senator Hillary Clinton’s bid for president Monday afternoon and she returned the favor by naming Mr. Dellums Chair of her campaign’s National Urban Policy Committee.

The announcement was made at Laney College Student Center shortly after the two toured the campus together. Mr. Dellums said the decision to endorse Ms. Clinton was made “after an exhaustive review of everyone’s global agenda,” and that he was impressed by Ms. Clinton’s understanding of the problems facing the nation’s cities.

“Oakland is sitting on top of a 100-year-old collapsing infrastructure,” he told the crowd of hundreds of supporters and students, predicting that the public-private partnership he envisioned under Clinton’s presidency would be one of the “greatest public works projects in modern history.” 

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Filed under: News, Oakland, Politics , Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Oakland, President, Ron Dellums