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Indulging Your Oakland Sweet Tooth

Do you love dessert? We do. So we decided to do some grueling research to see if we could find the best places to grab desert in Oakland. It was awful. We barely survived. ;) So with no adieu, and in no particular order, here are some of our favorite places to grab a sweet… Read more »

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10 Must Do’s For Oakland Newcomers

As a recent newcomer to Oakland myself I honestly didn’t know what I was getting into. I kind of moved here on a whim a little over a year and a half ago. I had just gotten a job here and I honestly did not know much about the city, and certainly had no idea… Read more »

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10 Things You May Not Know About Oakland

1.) It actually used to be called Brooklyn.      Not to actually give any more attention to the people calling us the Brooklyn of San Francisco, but they might actually be right. The town of Brooklyn  was situated east of Lake Merritt down to San Leandro from 1856-1872 and was named for a ship… Read more »