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LIFESTYLE: Young, Jewish and fashionable; trendy Oakland...
...Oakland is hardly regarded by most people as a must-see tourist destination. But novelist-poet Ishmael Reed is determined to change perceptions of this Northern California city, his adopted hometown, which he argues is still vital, despite ongoing problems with crime and budget cuts. In his new book, Blues City (Crown; 191 pages), Reed recommends the following Oakland sights and activities...
...streets, the rapper couldn't find peace and didn't make it. Pummeled by cops after an arrest for jaywalking in 1991, he sued the Oakland Police Department for $10 million (and got $42,500). It didn't always go his way. He beat several assault charges before doing jail time for sexual abuse of a woman...
...mail effort came in response to a request from Boston City Councilor Michael S. Ross, whose district—which includes Fenway Park—experienced rampant lawlessness after the Red Sox defeated the Oakland Athletic’s in the decisive Game 5 of the division series last Monday...
...assertion that the Red Sox are heart while the Yankees are “hype and money” is just ludicrous. For one, the Red Sox just beat up on the Oakland A’s (who, in reality, beat themselves far more than the Red Sox could beat them) whose payroll is less than half that of the Sox. The Sox have the second highest payroll in the American League. And unlike the Yankees, whose core is made up of players developed through their own system (Williams, Jeter, Posada, Rivera, and Pettitte) or acquired in shrewd trades (like...