For more than 20 years, Discount City has helped Alameda families celebrate birthdays, graduations, school events, cultural ceremonies, and countless milestones. We’re proud to be part of what makes ...

The City of Alameda faces an $800 million backlog in deferred maintenance and climate-driven infrastructure needs. On December 2, City Council will hold its final infrastructure needs workshop of a ...

Whether you don’t feel like cooking, the normal Thanksgiving spread doesn’t appeal to your palate, or you just want to try something different this year, there’s a restaurant for that in Alameda. This ...

The FAAS “Fill the Pantry” campaign I reported on last week is rolling right along. I want to thank everyone who has donated so far and encourage others to take a moment to drop off a bag of kibble or ...

Six companies want to lease the former Rock Wall Winery property (Building 24) at 2301 Monarch Street on Alameda Point, but one of them—St. George Spirits—has already been nixed by the City, according ...

The novelist Michael Cunningham once observed that everyone’s life is worthy of being a story, told well, with passion, craft and care. Karin K. Jensen, the author of the recently republished The ...

In the last few years, ube desserts and drinks have become social media darlings, garnering attention and likes with their dazzling and bright purple colors. At Alameda’s Filipino Island Fest on ...

Every day, emergency departments see patients who arrive with preventable injuries or illnesses. Some come in after falls, others because of minor illnesses that became serious, and many because of ...

"The key to going from a flat, dim picture to a finished image is combining many bad pictures to make one good one," writes Evan Gomez-Shwartz. In the latest installment of his series on ...

Just seconds after the bell rang for lunch, about 70 students made their way through the crowded hallways and filed into a classroom in the D wing of Alameda High School (AHS). Neatly laid out on the ...

This year our fourth and fifth grade class at Love Elementary started something new, called “The Happiness Project.” Each month we get to focus on one topic that scientists say makes people happier.

When most of us think of improvisational comedy, we think of hilarious performances by stars like Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Stephen Colbert, and Steve Carell. But Improv Central, which will open its ...