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Wine country means a lot of things in California, a state with winegrowing regions stretching most of its 800 mile length. For most residents of the San Francisco Bay Area, we tend to think of Wine Country as Napa or Sonoma. Increasingly, however, wine country must also include the East Bay. The cities of Berkeley, Oakland, and Alameda are now home to dozens of "Urban" wineries that are producing...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Oakland, California's city attorney said on Friday he will file a lawsuit claiming municipal bond insurers duped the city into buying bond insurance despite risks the guarantors faced to their triple-A ratings from insuring subprime mortgage-related securities.
On Friday, August 15th the 66th Mob is going to be sponsoring a fund raiser for “Autism Speaks” at Sidelines Bar and Grill in Modesto, CA. That will be the day that Jarrod Cooper and the rest of the Raiders’ special teams will be sticking it to Chris Carr and the Tennessee Titans. It will [...]
Friday, July 25th Game Preview Texas Rangers (52-50) vs. Oakland Athletics (52-49) Vicente Padilla (11-5, 4.41 ERA) vs. Sean Gallagher (4-4, 4.20 ERA) 9:05 PM CST in Oakland, California (McAfee Coliseum) TV: FSN SW | Radio: KRLD 1080 AM, XM 182 Rangers Athletics Pos. Player Pos. Player 2B Ian Kinsler RF Ryan Sweeney SS Michael Young C Kurt Suzuki CF Josh Hamilton DH Jack Cust DH Milton Bradley LF Emil...
Awesome progress shots of Justin Gray's (Graywrx Sculptural Welding, Oakland, CA) latest project: a jet turbine-powered tracked robot. You can see pictures and videos of some of his other flame-throwing robots on his blog . Unnamed but almost finished 7/5/08 [Flickr set] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Robotics | Digg this!
Asian-American immigrants at a town hall discussion in California on Wednesday continued to protest proposed cuts to Medi-Cal, the state's Medicaid program, that would eliminate some health services to documented immigrants, the Oakland Tribune reports (Hill, Oakland Tribune, 7/23). Gov.
Lem over at Robots-Dreams was musing about this pic he came across on the interwebs, and wanted to know more about it. Well, my friends, this robot is the work of a robot freak from Oakland, California named Justin Grey, whom we have had the pleasure and privilege of working with on many occasions. [...]
Stillborn Records has signed Modesto, CA's Better Left Unsaid , Oakland, CA's Lionheart' and Providence, RI's She Rides . Better Left Unsaid 's debut full-length The Fight Within hits streets July 22, while Lionheart' s debut The Will to Survive will see a re-release September 2 and She Rides 's self-titled effort is tentatively set for release in October.
Military personnel returning home from war zones can expect friendlier greetings by airport officials under a new agreement designed to prevent the reoccurrence of an incident last fall that stranded troops on a tarmac for hours at Oakland International Airport in California.
Oluyemi Thomas, the sage-like reedman from Oakland, California, is heading to town this month and will be playing in a duo setting with New York drummer and percussionist Michael Wimberley, whom he describes as both "creative-minded and creative-spirited." It's the spiritual sphere--however this is defined, impossible to nail down--that appears to guide much of Thomas' journey. In recent times, there's...
Around 3,000 people join the fight for Good Jobs and Clean Air in the Port of Oakland, California on July 22nd. Read more about it and check out the live footage of the struggle.
Oakland, CA Another self-released band proves that it can be excellent without signing to a record label. Tour: 08/06 - Cafe Montmartre - Madison, WI 08/07 - Schubas - Chicago, IL 08/09 - El Mocambo - Toronto, ON 08/10 - Le Divan Orange - Montreal, QC 08/12 - The Middle East - Cambridge, MA 08/13 - Mercury Lounge - New York, NY 08/15 - Union Hall - Brooklyn, NY 08/16 - Johnny Brenda’s - Philadelphia,...
Officials of Cost Plus Inc., the Oakland retailer of food and home merchandise products, said Tuesday tampering with electronic funds transfer devices known as "PIN pads" had been discovered to occur at eight of its stores in Southern California between February and April.
Officials of Cost Plus Inc., the Oakland retailer of food and home merchandise products, said Tuesday tampering with electronic funds transfer devices known as "PIN pads" had been discovered to occur at eight of its stores in Southern California between February and April.
