November 2012

Alameda Bookshelf: Don Lattin's "Distilled Spirits"

Kristen Hanlon
Friday, November 30, 2012 - 12:05am
Photo by Deanne Fitzmaurice.

Photo by Deanne Fitzmaurice.

Don Lattin, Distilled Spirits: Getting High, Then Sober, with a Famous Writer, a Forgotten Philosopher, and a Hopeless Drunk (University of California Press, 2012) Read more >> about Alameda Bookshelf: Don Lattin's "Distilled Spirits"

EXCERPT: Don Lattin's "Distilled Spirits"

Don Lattin
Friday, November 30, 2012 - 12:04am

The following is an excerpt from Chapter One of Distilled Spirits - Getting High, then Sober with a Famous Writer, a Forgotten Philosopher, and a Hopeless Drunk, published in October by University of California Press. The book, by Alameda's Don Lattin, combines a memoir of Lattin’s years as the religion writer at the San Francisco Chronicle with a group biography of the writer Aldous Huxley, the philosopher Gerald Heard, and Bill Wilson, the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. Read more >> about EXCERPT: Don Lattin's "Distilled Spirits"

Alameda Point Entrepreneurs: John Walker’s Area 51

Heather L. Wood
Thursday, November 29, 2012 - 12:05am

From the outside, 2301 Monarch looks like yet another drafty government building on Alameda's former Naval Air Station. Inside, however, is a different story – or stories, if you stay long enough to hear John Walker tell them. Read more >> about Alameda Point Entrepreneurs: John Walker’s Area 51

You said it: Time for a breather on Crab Cove suit

Frank Matarrese
Thursday, November 29, 2012 - 12:01am

It’s time to throttle back on the East Bay Regional Park District lawsuit and the city’s rhetoric in the media over the federal land near Crab Cove and get to a solution. Neither serves the public’s interest, on the Alameda side, maintaining a certified housing element and on the EBPRD side, protecting and enhancing one of its premier coastal parks, Crab Cove. EPRPD’s lack of funds to secure the land at auction and the city’s assertion that EBRPD did not attend hearings or give input to the City Council’s decision in July to rezone the property raise lots of questions. Read more >> about You said it: Time for a breather on Crab Cove suit

Area 51 at Alameda Point, and a brilliant(ly lit) parade

From the outside, 2301 Monarch looks like yet another drafty government building on Alameda's former Naval Air Station. Inside, however, is a different story – or stories, if you stay long enough to hear John Walker tell them. Heather Wood did, and she's got those - along with the rundown on Walker's latest adventure, the event company Area 51, in the latest installment of Alameda Point Entrepreneurs today. Read more >> about Area 51 at Alameda Point, and a brilliant(ly lit) parade

New tech plan in the works for Alameda schools

Schools leaders are drafting a fresh plan to integrate technology into Alameda’s classrooms. And unlike prior plans that were essentially unfunded, the goals outlined in the new, three-year plan will be backed at least in part by Measure A parcel tax money. Here's our rundown on the plan, along with a school-by-school breakdown of how the district spent Measure A money on technology this past year. Read more >> about New tech plan in the works for Alameda schools

Conversation piece: What technology is needed in Alameda's classrooms?

Submitted by Michele Ellson on

As a companion to today's piece on Alameda schools leaders efforts to draft a new technology plan for the district's classrooms, I wanted to reach out to readers to ask you what you think the district and its students need in terms of tech. Do Alameda's students need an iPad at every desk or are pencil and paper okay until a certain age? Let us know what you think by offering your comments beneath this post. Read more >> about Conversation piece: What technology is needed in Alameda's classrooms?

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