I saw this photo on the Huffington Post today, and thought it was pretty funny: » Read on »

I found this flyer at Taylor’s Sausages, one of a stack on top of the trash can. » Read on »

A fine article about how the high price of gold is affecting the local grill work industry. » Read on »

The Alameda Antiques Faire is one of those stellar local events that makes me love the bay area. It takes place out on one of the landing strips of the old Alameda naval base – the only open space big enough to hold the 800+ booths. » Read on »

A conversation got started over on abetteroakland.com about crime in Oakland. V Smoothe (one of the truly great Oakland bloggers), wanted to make the point that crime in Oakland is bad, and to do so she used the FBI’s Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report to build a graph comparing the crime rates of several cities to show that Oakland’s is particularly bad. While I agree that crime is bad and that some people are unrealistic about the existence of a problem, I said that the numbers aren’t an honest or conclusive comparison of cities. » Read on »