Archive for September, 2009
New Park Street pub open for business
That’s right, folks: The plywood chrysalis covering the entrance of what used to be the Pop Inn has come off, and a (promised) brand new pub called The Churchward has emerged. The grand opening was this past weekend.
Alameda native Joe Churchward Jr. said he was impressed with the changes taking place on Park Street and [...]
The Blotter
Monday, September 21
BURGLARY: Police are looking for a suspect or suspects who broke into the storage closet of a Willow Street resident and took $1,800 worth of property. Police said someone used a pry bar to open the closet, which was located in the secured carport area of the victim’s apartment building, sometime between 10 [...]
Ploughshares bags big grant
Looks like our man in Congress, Rep. Pete Stark, took a little time off from his efforts to expand health care access to help the folks at the Alameda Point Collaborative pick up a $625,000 federal grant.
The money will allow the Collaborative to greatly expand Ploughshares Nursery, by adding 25 jobs for collaborative residents for [...]
Monday Profile: Pappo’s John Thiel
In honor of the Yom Kippur holiday, Monday’s regularly scheduled profile is running today.
Since he was 11 years old, Pappo’s John Thiel has wanted to have his own restaurant. The California Culinary Academy grad worked at some of the Bay Area’s best loved eateries – Bay Wolf, Zuni Café and Delfina – before landing in [...]
City to study impacts of Point plan
After just a few brief moments of discussion that followed a very long night focused on other topics, the Planning Board voted unanimously to immediately move forward with an environmental impact study of SunCal’s proposed development plan at Alameda Point.
The decision was based on an August recommendation from the Oakland Chinatown Advisory Committee that the [...]
Blogging 3.0
The Alameda Journal’s got a new blogger in the house: Freelance writer Janet Levaux.
Levaux takes over for onetime Journal editor Lucinda Ryan, who capably filled the shoes of blogger/columnist Eve Pearlman when she took this past summer off to work on a book.
Levaux kicked off her run last week with posts on the artistic repurposing [...]
Today is Yom Kippur
So atone, folks! In the meantime, we’ll get back to you Tuesday.
P.S. In case you missed it: Encinal beat Alameda in this past weekend’s Island Bowl game, 34-16. Story here.
Eve Pearlman is joining The Island
You read right: Eve Pearlman, who wrote the Alameda Journal’s popular Life on The Island column, is heading over to The Island.
Starting next Friday, October 2, Eve will again offer her always-astute take on issues big and small, along with an invite to you, dear reader, to offer your two cents. She’ll be here every [...]
Live @ The Library concerts start Saturday
So what’s the most happening place on the Island these days? Would you guess it’s your local library?
They’ve got a raft of great kids’ programs (Paws to Read, Caterpillar Puppets, Recycled Storytime). And art (Preschoolers Paint the Town and the Maya Ortiz potters, who are doing a live demonstration at the main library at 1 [...]
Your weekend: Alameda’s architectural legacy
This little Island’s got a lot going for it, not the least of which is a veritable trove of really cool old houses. And the folks at the Alameda Museum and Alameda Architectural Preservation Society offer you a few opportunities each year to check some of these places out, starting with their Legacy Home Tour, [...]
On Point: A little bit of this, a little bit of that
Folks, it has been a crazy couple of weeks on the Alameda Point front. SunCal submitted their ballot signatures, our local Chamber of Commerce submitted their opinion on SunCal’s initiative. An advisory committee made up of of local folks who favor SunCal’s plan was born, and a slew of folks who hate the plan wasted [...]
