Recession Rights: Advocates Reach Out to Eville Homeowners
By Diana Montaño/inEmeryville February 14 is the day for pink teddy bears, roses, and chocolate hearts. But for some homeowners and tenants in Emeryville and the East Bay, “there’s not a lot of heart out there right now.” That’s the message expressed by Wanda Remmers, the executive director and fair housing specialist at Housing Rights Inc., at [...]
Woodfin Continues to Hold Out on Back Wages
28 April 2009
Diana Montaño In what has become a years-long saga pitting the Woodfin Hotel in Emeryville against its workers, the hotel has again defied an Emeryville City Council order to pay back wages, workers’ advocates say. In 2006, hotel employees first charged the Woodfin with defying a city-wide living wage ordinance. Measure C, approved by Emeryville voters in [...]
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Time Travel in Emeryville: The Factory Party
09 March 2009
A congregation of look-alike Andy Warhols is not something that happens often. But on Friday March 6, in an Emeryville warehouse that reproduced the 1960s' dark, industrial-driven art scene fathered by Warhol, the Third Annual Amoeba Art Show took place. The Factory Party.
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Predatory Lending Prevention and Foreclosure Intervention Workshop
12 February 2009
Predatory Lending Prevention and Foreclosure Intervention Workshop Sponsored by the Emeryville Redevelopment Agency Saturday, February 14, 2009 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Location: Emeryville Senior Center 4321 Salem Street Emeryville, CA 94608 Related Site Phone: (510) 596-4316 Current Weather Map/Directions PREDATORY LENDING PREVENTION AND FORECLOSURE INTERVENTION WORKSHOP Saturday, February 14, 2009 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Emeryville Senior Center 4321 Salem Street, Emeryville Sponsored by the Emeryville [...]
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Cutting Edge Yoga Center Opens in Emeryville
11 February 2009
Square One Yoga Collective, a new studio offering low-cost yoga classes and community events, is opening March 1, 2009, in the Triangle Neighborhood of Emeryville. Katy Cryer, a neighborhood resident, is teaming up with 11 other Bay Area yoga teachers to make the transformative art of yoga available to everyone, regardless of income. Cryer and all [...]
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why doesn’t Mayor Ken Bukowski pay his Em’ville business tax?
11 February 2009
From yesterday’s ABC/Channel 7 News: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/south_bay&id=6500810&status=ok By Cecilia Vega EMERYVILLE, CA (KGO) — One East Bay mayor is refusing to pay his business license tax. It’s an important source of revenue for any city, but the Emeryville mayor has a reason for not paying — one that many people around the Bay Area understand all too [...]
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Art Reception and Wine Tasting
11 February 2009
December Artist Reception: Ladies Artist: Ann Marie Donahue Opening Reception: Tonight! December 5th, 6 - 9pm Ann Marie’s “Ladies ” are polaroid transfers that capture the gestures of ethereal porcelain figurines as if they are in a moment. These eclectic objects come alive when they are captured on film. She will be exhibiting them on fabric to give them [...]
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