Andrew Alden

Saba Grocers awarded $2M to expand fight against 'food apartheid' The grant from the California Department of Food and Agriculture will allow Saba to create a Food Hub at the Oakland produce terminal and offer its services across Alameda County.

This is good news

Oakland welcomes new cafes, Thai restaurant, sports bar and more in September New openings in The Town include Marin's Kitchen & Coffee, Payakk, Olivia Coffee and Flower, and The Hub.

Meanwhile Pill Hill's Olivia Coffee & Flower (not a dispensary) at Summit/30th is in Uptown. I thought Oaklandside was located in Oakland! oaklandside.org/2025/10/06/m...

This week's Nosh says Leo's Diner at 15th/Franklin is in Uptown while Marin's Kitchen and Coffee at 21st/Franklin is in Downtown. ¿Que?

concrete corner stamped "ALLSTON WAY" and SEVETH ST"

you had one job

Catnip dispensary booth at the bierfest

Oaktoberfest

Oh, I'm coming for the second set.

In the morning you shall be sober

Interesting! And somehow it's immaculate and plateless.

untagged electric vehicle

brand new USPS truck

ad at Rockridge BART for a VPN provider, Zap-style cartoon of beefy corp type telling walkup customers ( paraphrase) "OK if we track and market you according to this 50-page printout?"

cute ad

"If primary concern is evacuation from fires"

so maybe it's not the real concern.

This has got to backfire badly.

Little Free Tape/CD Library

Queen Anne home in butterscotch with exquisite ornamentation and iridescent windows

601 Bancroft, a massive new 3-story structure with chocolate walls and big glass reflecting an excellent blue sky with streaky high clouds

Berkeley, man.

That report is infuriating. The whole site is on the Hayward fault and should be leveled no matter how beautiful and historic the buildings on it are.

view north of Aquatic Park lagoon, I-80 footbridge on left, new office complexes on right, clean water and shoreline, cloud-draped sky

It's not your old Aquatic Park any more

YouTube video by Robert Löhr The Four Deuces WPLJ-"White Port Lemon Juice"...

Red port lemon juice, local version of WPLJ www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJiy...

It's on the Hayward fault's active trace.

next thing you know you'll do it every day

"We read, in short, because books aren’t software that we download into our brains, Matrix-style, and they aren’t intellectual property, either, to be absorbed into large language models." www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/about/ #BookSky 📚

Is that the crime scene?

Is nice to think so

Until white hydrogen pans out (my fondest hope), electrolyzed H2 will never compete with batteries.

Hydrogen for buses is a boondoggle. Batteries are the way to go.

True.

Seems like a lot of upholstery. Her companion had no straps, and neither needed any.

damn

wtf