Oakland Local is looking for Oakland students who are computer literate, love to write and have deep ties to one or more Oakland communities to work as interns this Spring.

Lady Gaga may have gotten the world's attention tonight when she danced out of an egg at the 2011 Grammy Awards, but earlier in the evening, one of Oakland's own received one of the coveted awards.

Have you been waiting to find out when the 2011 grants deadlines for Oakland arts funding well be posted?

Our last set of comments from the people who wrote in notes for the mayor on our survey are more personal. Many participants had evaluative comments on Quan's performance in her first 30 days. This is a selection of those comments - and our fourth and final set of Letters to Jean.

On the eve of First Friday and one of the coolest Art Murmurs since Oakland Local launched, what better to savor the moment than to experience the wonderful video and photography of Lea Bruno?

So the letter the City Council asked City Attorney John Russo to write back in January to the DOJ about Oakland's plans to have industrial pot farms has now gotten a response. It's pretty straightforward: industrial pot farms are illegal, and if Oakland permits them, we're going to come after the city.

One in six people in Alameda County does not have enough money for food.

The winter months are challenging for the Alameda County Food Bank and its clients. Contributions of food and money drop off after the holidays, while the need remains high.

Until March 1, every dollar given will be matched by a friend of the food bank.

Friday afternoon, an email from an upset Oakland resident landed in our mailbox that said:

Matt Damon's production company has put the word our they need extras for scenes in his new film, Contagion, being filmed in San Francisco, Feb. 9-19, 2011. 

Do you have what it takes to be a good school principal? Right here in Oakland?

We're rounding up to Mayor Jean Quan's first 30 days in office, and it's clear there's a new emphasis on the chief exec's visibility.  Even without the jam-packed photo-op schedule for Jan 24-30, Quan seems to be out and about more in 24 days than Dellums was in his whole last year in office.