December 11 Bedtime with the Beasts Bedtime with the Beasts is a special overnight program for youth groups (ages 6-18) and their chaperones. An Oakland Zoo education specialist will lead your group on an evening hike around the zoo where you’ll get a look at what the zoo is like after all of the guests [...]

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December 4 Benicia Holiday Open House and Tree Lighting First Street merchants along with Benicia Main Street host this ever-popular open house at the beginning of the Christmas Season. Merchants offer beverages and treats and show off their holiday goods while costumed carolers sing traditional Christmas Music. Live entertainment, wagon rides, and wine tasting add [...]

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November 6 First Friday Reception at Blankspace This is Not My Beautiful Life—a two person exhibition with Michael Hall and Daniel Healey For this exhibition we are pairing two painters with radically different approaches to painting, but whom are both dealing with subjects of history, domesticity and narrative. Michael Halls work begins with an observation [...]

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October 30 Montclair Lions Club Halloween Parade Kids and their parents and grandparents can give their costumes an early start at the annual Lions Club Halloween parade this afternoon in Oakland’s Montclair Village. Mountain Boulevard from Colton Boulevard to La Salle Avenue and La Salle Avenue from Mountain Boulevard to Moraga Avenue will be closed [...]

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October 23 Betting On A Cure” Poker Tournament and Auction Benefiting The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Don’t miss this event!  Presented/hosted by Blue Dog Events!! Texas Hold Em – Easy to learn, cheat sheet available, all levels welcome!!! ALL PROCEEDS BENEFIT THE LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY Buy-In – $50 Re-buys $10, Add-on $20 Unlimited re-buys [...]

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October 9 Kirchenabendmusik. Music of Mendelssohn, Mozart, Haydn, and Schubert Take a musical trip to Old Vienna, and in your mind’s eye, sit in historic St. Stephen’s Cathedral for a candlelit Vespers service.  This is exactly what Artists’  Vocal Ensemble (AVE) will bring to life on the second weekend of October.  With the music of [...]

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October 2 Taste For Art 2009 There’s apparently no such thing as a sedate East Bay Express party, as indicated by two years of blowout Best of the East Bay and gay pride celebrations, and March’s dizzying tribute to Andy Warhol. On Friday, Oct. 2, we’ll hold our annual Taste for Art, which highlights local restaurants, winemakers, [...]

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There’s a fire burning right now along Highway 24 at Fish Ranch Roadin Contra Costa County, on the hils near the Caldecott Tunnel. The Fire was reported around 3:00 PM today, and as of 4:00 PM has burned about 30 acres. Officials say that cool temperatures are helping, but that the strong winds are not. [...]

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September 25 Dancing Under the Stars, Latin Rumba & Cha Cha Night Join Jack London Square and the Linden Dance Studio for FREE dance instruction. Make dinner reservations at your favorite JLS restaurant and learn how to Rumba & Cha Cha. Music by: Salsa Caliente When: 8:30 PM—10:00 PM Where: Jack London Square, Broadway & Market, [...]

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It’s no secret that the state’s budget is a mess. And though a deal was reached between the governor and the legislature to try and make the best of it, there are a lot of unhappy people as a result. Some of those unhappy people are judges and attorneys who work in courts throughout the [...]

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