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RACE, or more accurately RACISM, and CLASS do play a crucial part in negative depictions of Oakland

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 ====Outdoor and recreational events====
 *'''Bay to Breakers''', [http://www.baytobreakers.com/]. Third Sunday in May. An annual footrace that is one of the largest in the country. The route runs from Downtown to Ocean Beach. Many runners do the whole thing in costume, wearing anything from elaborate costumes to wearing almost nothing at all, lending a party atmosphere to the event.
 *'''Critical Mass'''. On the last Friday of each month, bicyclists in San Francisco (and about 200 like-minded cities world-wide) gather at the north end of Market Street on the Embarcadero and ride en masse to some destination, militantly demonstrating their right to occupy the roads. If you are driving in SF on a Critical Mass day, you will want to listen for radio traffic reports, but if you are stopped by the mass the best thing to do is maintain a good sense of humor and remember that it will all pass in about 5 minutes. Although, tempers can and do flare, and there have been cases where run ins with drivers and bicyclists have gotten violent.  If your car is surrounded by bikes, definitely do not move until they have passed or they might feel threatened.

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 '''San Francisco''' [http://onlyinsanfrancisco.com/] is a major city in [[California]], the centerpiece of the [[Bay Area (California)|Bay Area]], well-known for its liberal community, hilly terrain, Victorian architecture, scenic beauty, summer fog, and great ethnic and cultural diversity. These are only a few of the aspects of the city that make San Francisco one of the most visited cities in the world.
-San Francisco is located on a small seven-by-seven mile (11x11km) square of land at the tip of a peninsula between the San Francisco Bay and the Pacific coast. It has a population of 815,000, but is the center of a metropolitan area of 7.1 million. San Francisco is just one of the cities which makes up the entire San Francisco Bay Area.  San Francisco's neighbors - municipalities to the east of the Bay Bridge, north of the Golden Gate Bridge, and south of the city are all part of separate counties, each with their own governments and local public transportation systems.
+San Francisco is located on a small seven-by-seven mile (11x11km) square of land at the tip of a peninsula between the San Francisco Bay and the Pacific coast. It has a population of 815,000, but is the center of a metropolitan area of 7.1 million. San Francisco is just one of the cities which makes up the entire San Francisco Bay Area.  San Francisco's neighbors - municipalities to the east of the Bay Bridge, north of the Golden Gate Bridge, and south of the city are all part of separate counties, each with their own governments and local public transportation systems. [http://www.citywalkingguide.com/sanfrancisco Download and print the San Francisco walking guide series] to help you explore the city at your own pace.
 ==Districts==

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-'''Oakland''' [http://oaklandcvb.com/] is a port city in the [[Bay Area (California)|Bay Area]] of [[California]] in the [[United States of America]]. The city was rated by Rand McNally as having the best weather in the country. While Oakland doesn't have the concentration of tourist amenities present in [[San Francisco]] to the west, or the suburban landscape of [[San Jose (California)|San Jose]] to the south, the visitor can easily spend a few pleasant days here with a wealth of things to do and see. Media and popular lore –– echoing the country's and certainly the Bay Area's unacknowledged historical racism (Oakland has a large African-American population) –– convey a consistently negative image of Oakland that does not accurately represent the city's actual everyday realities. The city does indeed have a crime issue, however, the increasing gentrification of sections of Oakland's downtown –– which has attracted large numbers of culturally privileged young whites –– have brought the city a reappraisal of some sort. ''Forbes Magazine'' listed Oakland's Uptown district as one of the top ten hipster neighborhoods in America. The city gets its name because it is heavily populated with oak trees.
+'''Oakland''' [http://oaklandcvb.com/] is a port city in the [[Bay Area (California)|Bay Area]] of [[California]] in the [[United States of America]]. The city was rated by Rand McNally as having the best weather in the country. While Oakland doesn't have the concentration of tourist amenities present in [[San Francisco]] to the west, or the suburban ethos of [[San Jose (California)|San Jose]] to the south, the visitor can easily spend a few pleasant days here with a wealth of things to do and see. Media and popular lore –– echoing the country's and certainly the Bay Area's unacknowledged historical racism (Oakland has a large African-American population) –– convey a consistently negative image of Oakland that does not accurately represent the city's actual everyday realities. The city does indeed have a crime issue; however, the increasing gentrification of sections of Oakland's downtown –– which has attracted large numbers of culturally privileged young whites –– have brought the city a reappraisal of some sort. ''Forbes Magazine'' listed Oakland's Uptown district as one of the top ten hipster neighborhoods in America. The city gets its name because it is heavily populated with oak trees.
 ==Understand==
-Often overshadowed by its larger and trendy neighbor San Francisco lying directly to the west, Oakland nevertheless offers beautiful highlights of its own. Decades ago, former Oakland resident Gertrude Stein returned to visit her hometown of Oakland, from which she departed over twenty years earlier, only to find that her synagogue, her school, a favorite park, and the home in which she grew up no longer existed. An aquaintance, unaware that Stein had already visited the city, asked her if she planned to visit Oakland. Stein replied, "Why go to Oakland? There is no there there." Stein was referring to the institutions and fixtures of her childhood that had, with time, changed completely or disappeared. This statement, however, has been taken out of context to mean there is nothing to see in Oakland.
+Often overshadowed by San Francisco, its larger and somewhat self-satisfied neighbor lying directly to the west, Oakland nevertheless offers beautiful highlights of its own. Decades ago, former Oakland resident Gertrude Stein returned to visit her hometown of Oakland, from which she departed over twenty years earlier, only to find that her synagogue, her school, a favorite park, and the home in which she grew up no longer existed. An aquaintance, unaware that Stein had already visited the city, asked her if she planned to visit Oakland. Stein replied, "Why go to Oakland? There is no there there." Stein was referring to the institutions and fixtures of her childhood that had, with time, changed completely or disappeared. Detractors of the Oakland, however, have taken this statement out of context as another means to denigrate the city and, by extension, its sizable working-class and minority populations.
-But Oakland's visitors can find the "there" there, most easily in the city's affluent and beautiful hillside neighborhoods, its burgeoning culinary scene, its somewhat eccentric shopping districts, the parks, its sports teams, and its waterfront. Several distinct neighborhoods comprise Oakland, all of which host a heady mix of cultures and people.
+But Oakland's visitors can find the "there" there, most easily in the city's very affluent and beautiful hillside neighborhoods, its burgeoning culinary scene, its somewhat eccentric shopping districts, the parks, its sports teams, and its waterfront. Several distinct neighborhoods comprise Oakland, all of which host a heady mix of cultures and people.
 In the 1960s, an era of social, cultural, racial, and political revolt throughout the Western world, Oakland became a hub of radical movements –– it is the birthplace of the Black Panther Party –– and numerous criminal organizations, such as the largely white  Hell's Angels motorcycle gang, made the city their hub.  Yet Oakland's history in the arts and entertainment, often overlooked by the city's detractors, always was and remains quite formidable. Oakland has nurtured or been a second home to novelists Gertrude Stein, Jack London, Amy Tan, and Maya Angelou; actors Mark Hamill, Bruce Lee, and Tom Hanks; architect Julia Morgan; classical conductor Calvin Simmons; rappers MC Hammer and Tupac Shakur, and several other notables in the liberal arts and sciences.

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−	*<drink name="The Winery SF" alt="" address="200 California Ave, Bldg 180 North" directions="Treasure Island" phone="(415)735-8423" url="http://winery-sf.com" hours="12 p.m.-5p.m." price="" lat="" long="">The Winery SF is San Francisco's Winery, Tasting Room & Event Center. Enjoy distinctive wines produced right in San Francisco, from our highly acclaimed Sonoma and Napa Valley winemaker. Producing hand-crafted wines in a traditional, old-world manner, The Winery offers a large number of boutique wines, creating an unforgettable wine experience for individuals, groups, and guests of San Francisco. The Winery brings the "California wine experience" to San Francisco. </drink>
	===Bars and clubs===		===Bars and clubs===
	The best way to find a good '''bar''' or '''club''' is to ask the advice of a local; but barring that a copy of ''The SF Bay Guardian'' or the ''SF Weekly'' will help you find something suited to your personal taste.		The best way to find a good '''bar''' or '''club''' is to ask the advice of a local; but barring that a copy of ''The SF Bay Guardian'' or the ''SF Weekly'' will help you find something suited to your personal taste.

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