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Kids spread holiday cheer 6,000 miles away 0

The first snow day of the year cancels a Christmas party that would have put Emerson children face to face with Iraqi boys and girls 6,000 miles away.

Rockridge’s Lawton: a trick-or-treater’s oasis 0

They come from the hills and they come from the east. Every Halloween, children from all over Oakland descend in the hundreds on Rockridge’s Lawton Street.

Competing chefs sweat out Crabby Chef cookoff 0

If crab legs and butter sauce are a match made in heaven, consider Berkeley’s annual Crabby Chef competition the ultimate home-wrecker.

Keeping a loved one’s memory alive 0

Grace Alexander, like so many fallen servicemen and women, is lost in a gruesome torrent of facts. Except to the people who knew her.