Super Bowl was not so super for hotelsLos Angeles TimesHotel occupancy rates for Super Bowl weekend were 61% in Bergen County, N.J., 79% in New York’s Times Square area and 75% in New York’s uptown…
Fox NewsLAS VEGAS – A poker player who left a bag with $300,000 in the back seat of a Las Vegas taxi has given $10,000 to the honest cabbie who returned the money. Yellow Checker…
On March 22, 2009, Oakland lost a great institution and community landmark when The Parkway Speakeasy Theater closed its doors, abruptly ending a twelve year reign. Now, after many failed attempts to reopen the original…
Since I found myself in Oakland for a weekend rather than Georgia, Chicago, Las Vegas, or Los Angeles, and on the first Friday of the month of March, I took a late night (10 PM)…
Good Deeds is Tyler Perry’s movie about Wesley Deeds, a successful black entrepreneur (here that Michael Arrington!), who becomes more romantically interested in a a down-on-her-luck single mother than his more “uptown” fiance. Here’s the…
Last night this vlogger trekked down over to the Uptown District in Oakland to just check out how the scene was changing. The result? The video you see above. It started with a walk over…
