Named after a great American author who spent his boyhood on the Oakland waterfront, Jack London Square is an Oakland landmark. A working waterfront t ... Read More

Why is this Jack London Square restaurant called The Fat Lady? The name was inspired by a nude painting the original owner acquired just before openin ... Read More

Who wouldn’t want to listen to free live music during their lunch break? That’s the idea behind Lunchtime Live! at Jack London Square, which features ... Read More

Jack London Square is on the forefront of the restaurant scene. Steps away from Bocanova, Scott’s Seafood, Il Pescatore, and Yoshi’s Oakland, there’s ... Read More

At the edge of the Oakland waterfront in Jack London Square, a rickety wooden saloon seems to have washed up from some other place in time. The saloon ... Read More

There’s no snow in California, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t any ice. Oakland Ice Center in downtown Oakland contains both a National Hockey Leagu ... Read More

Where can you find vintage buttons and baubles, doorknobs and dolls, and collections of all sorts of things you never expected to see in one place? Wh ... Read More

When the glamorous world of film and motion pictures captivated the American imagination in the 1920s, movie houses around the country were built like ... Read More

Even disguised among the former warehouses on Mandela Parkway, Brown Sugar Kitchen can’t escape attention. Its nondescript façade has a simple, wholes ... Read More

On the first Friday evening of each month, the galleries of downtown Oakland, from 65th and Stanford to 19th and Broadway, open their doors to the pub ... Read More