Atlanta’s loss is Emeryville’s gain as recent transplant Calvin Rouse III has joined The E’ville Eye staff as our resident food critique. Originally hailing from Sacramento, Calvin is a nine-year chef who’s worked at Whole...
Read More →Like many artists, Monique Harris would love to make enough money to support herself full-time. For now though, Harris, who has limited use of her arms and legs and has used a wheelchair all her life,...
Read More →An appropriate day for a major victory declared for Bike & Pedestrian access throughout our city. Emeryville celebrated Bike to work day with the major announcement from Sacramento that the city had won its year-long legal battle...
Read More →The publishing of the NY Times article Once Upon a Landscape profiling Brooklyn artist and Berkeley native Carol Bove led me to this 1982 archive titled “Rubbish lives for a time as a sculpture” detailing the infamous Emeryville mudflat sculptures. A 25-foot wheelchair,...
Read More →Winslow Lazer Norton (top), who also goes by the rap alias “Blanco” and his brother Abraham have struck a plea deal in their long-running federal case. Winslow’s Blue Star Corner residence was the subject of a recent...
Read More →Do you want Emeryville to be more Bike/Ped friendly? The EEBC is soliciting the public to determine which pending projects they should dedicate their lobbying resources to supporting. Amongst the list of 20 projects is the Christie Ave/Bay...
Read More →Luke Tsai — East Bay Express — Apr 23, 2013 Last week at the Temescal district location of Lanesplitter Pizza, two employees quit their jobs in dramatic fashion: At around 8 p.m. on Monday night,...
Read More →Even the East coast is acknowledging the E’ville vibe. It’s a bit of a backlash against the pretentious ”Mixology” trend over the last few years when every bar was serving exotic, trendy, cocktails at “in the know” establishments....
Read More →The last time we reported on this story a year ago, The Apollo Crematorium on Horton’s move to East Oakland was being blocked by an emergency ordinance filed by Oakland City Council Member Larry Reid. The...
Read More →Recently anointed Mayor Kurt Brinkman delivered the 2013 State of the City Address to the Emeryville Chamber of Commerce January 23rd at the Hilton Garden Inn. Brinkman was selected for the one year term as mayor by his...
Read More →Show your E’ville Pride and love for your pets! Introducing a new feature on The E’ville Eye Community Blog: Social Instagram sharing! Use the Instagram app to capture your pets in Emeryville and hashtag them...
Read More →Patrick O’Keeffe will retire after seven years as Emeryville’s City Manager (replacing John Flores in 2006) and eleven years as the city’s Economic Development and Housing Director. There is a public reception to honor his...
Read More →The Emery Unified School District held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on March 26th to celebrate the opening of the Family Resource and Wellness Center. The ceremony was attended by many of the local partners that made...
Read More →Park Avenue residents awoke to yet another staged raid on the corner of Halleck and Sherwin on Wednesday morning at approximately 7:30 a.m., this one was on a residencial unit at Blue Star Corner. It is unclear...
Read More →Former Mayor and 6-term Council member Ken Bukowski survived an attempted armed-mugging last Saturday evening first reported by the Tattler while walking to the Watergate Condominiums (This story was not picked up on by the...
Read More →Rick Holliday and Holliday Development, developers of our Emeryville Warehouse Lofts, is at it again after a four-year hiatus from E’ville. Holliday’s last Emeryville project was the 20-unit Blue Star Corner just prior to the 2008 real estate...
Read More →A woman found dead Thursday morning on the beach at Shorebird Park was a Fremont resident who committed suicide, authorities said Friday. The 44-year-old woman’s name was not released. Fremont police said the woman’s sister...
Read More →“Then & Now” is a special series that looks to capture a portion of Emeryville History and spotlight the small and vibrant business community that the former industrial city has evolved into. The Historic Park...
Read More →A new site promoting itself as “Everything Emeryville” has recently hit the interwebz. Co-sponsored by the City & the Emeryville Chamber of Commerce, it boasts an impressive list of business sponsors including Emeryville staples IKEA, Bay...
Read More →The Bay Bridge Celebration is officially on and a critical component of getting there is connecting the Bay Trail to Gateway Park and to the Bay Bridge multi-use pathway (and ultimately, Treasure Island … and...
Read More →Park Avenue District residents, consider now “the calm before the storm”. We’ve endured the demolition of the Sherwin-Williams plant and the subsequent three plus year remediation as well as the never-ending Park Ave Beautification project. Get ready...
Read More →Seems like EPD police chief Ken James has ruffled some feathers in the gun enthusiast community with his recent “A Gun Is Not a Defensive Weapon” comment. This is a story that I thought may...
Read More →Emery-Go-Round to West Oakland BART service would save SF commuters anywhere from 25-45 minutes of round-trip commute time … but is this something that the community wants? Is it even feasible? Would it require contributions...
Read More →Consider this Gallery an aggregate of images I’ve amassed from various web sources including this page dedicated to the mudflats on Tribe.net, a collection found on Spaces Art Environment and this article in the SFGate...
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