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Shopping Scene: Grand Lake, New and Reviewed
Piedmont Patch
Jan 30Now available: the newest issue of the Splash Pad Newsletter, which covers the business scene in the Lakeshore Avenue and Grand Avenue areas. There's coverage of two new vendors at the Grand Lake Farmers Market, selling sustainable seafood and goat che... »
Piedmont's Thomas Horn Wins Critics' Choice Award
Piedmont Patch
Jan 13Thomas Horn, 14, of Piedmont won the 2012 Critics' Choice award for best young actor, it was announced Thursday night. Horn was nominated for his role in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, which also stars Tom Hanks (who attended Skyline High School in... »
Tickets for 'Extremely Loud' Benefit Showing Available
Piedmont Patch
Jan 04Tickets are now available online for the Bay Area premiere of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, a benefit showing for Prevent Blindness Northern California, Pacific Vision Foundation and Piedmont Parents Club. The screening will take place Monday, J... »
Ten Great Things About Grand Tavern
East Bay Express
Jan 04A new favorite in Grand Lake. by Ellen Cushing Some bars you love for a single, specific reason — proximity to your house, comparative niceness/mixological capabilities of the bar staff, a certain drink, a friendly/attractive clientele. Better bars you... »
Top Stories, Dec. 26-Jan 1: Burglars and Bubbles
Piedmont Patch
Jan 02THE WEEK'S MOST POPULAR NEWS ARTICLES: 1. Police Blotter: Burglars Hit Four Houses in Two Days 2. Champagne: The Story Behind the Bubbly — and Some Recommendations 3. How to Recycle Your (Piedmont) Christmas Tree 4. Swim Club Dissolves, Returns over $2... »
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Vanessa Pinto: It's Funny Because It's True...
HuffPost San Francisco
Jan 31One of my favorite things to do is watch stand-up comedy -- especially when it's funny because it's true. And in S.F., there's a woman named Dixie De La Tour who feels the same way about real life stories as they relate to sex and gender. »
Oakland and Berkeley Updates
What's Cookin'
Jan 17Caña in Oakland, a Cuban-Cali café to the right of the Grand Lake Theater, has now opened the Parlor side to their business, a full-service restaurant. You can check out the Parlor menu here, with dishes like plantain-crusted fish and... »
signs: OHA + Neon Works
Our Oakland
Jan 14Neon Works warehouseIlove Oakland, I love history, and I love interesting signs, so I was in heaven Thursday night. The Oakland Heritage Alliance held an event about neon signs at Neon Works in the Gaskill. OHA board member Michael Crowe gave a lecture... »
Emeryville's Honor Bar Gets Some Guardian Love
Grub Street San Francisco
Jan 12Virginia Miller pens a love letter to the burgeoning East Bay bar scene this week, saying that the two newest openers, Honor Bar in Emeryville and The New Easy in Grand Lake are "serving cocktails for the geek and casual imbiber alike." She praises the... »
Another Bar for Your Radar in Oakland: The New Easy
What's Cookin'
Jan 10Oakland is bizzzeee with the bar openings (and in this case, refreshers)! I just got word about another one to add to the list, The New Easy, which used to be Easy Lounge in the Grand Lake district. The owners... »