Boulevard Bites

by Toni Locke and Sheila D'Amico

### Lincoln Square merchants have called together the Oakland Police Department and Safeway management to put a stop to rowdy, drunken, late-night parking-lot parties outside the Lincoln Square Safeway store.

### Lisa Sidorsky calls our attention to the absence of utility lines in the contemporary photos accompanying the "Looking Back and Driving Forward" article in the May Metro. Buried lines make a much better environment, she notes.

### Kudos to Oakland Public Theater. Fruitvale resident and artistic director Norman Gee shares the news that OPT will present Deontay Wilson's American Limbo at the Magic Theater in San Francisco, June 15 to 25. This is the first time our local theater has had that renowned venue. Call or e-mail for the Metro special: 2 for $15, or 3 for $20, on opening weekend oaklandpublic\@gmail.com or 534-9529.

### McCrea Park, perfect for a walking or sitting meditation during the week, becomes a lively place on Saturdays when the Oakland Fly Casting Club is present. This generous group offers free lessons on third Saturdays. But head to the casting pools on any Saturday for casting tips and practice.

### The Metro is a member of the Neighborhood News Network, a coalition of nonprofit newsletter and newspaper publications in Oakland. In May NNN heard the latest on the Oak to 9th project. At past meetings, emergency preparedness representatives gave their latest updates, and one publication shared operational tips. If your organization publishes a newsletter, and you want to learn more, e-mail metroreaders\@earthlink.net. Put NNN in the subject line.

### Don't throw out those old bikes or bike parts. Cycles of Change can use them, especially middle-school kids' mountain bikes with 24- to 26-inch wheels. Call 919-7679.

### Pat Sawanwatana wonders why, on street-sweeping day, parking enforcement seemed to make a beeline to ticket the one car parked in his block, then went right past more than 15 cars parked down the street?