COVA Music School Starts Second Year
Judith Offer

Up 35th Ave. and just across Highway 13 on Mountain Blvd. is the entrance to Conservatory of Vocal/Instrumental Music (COVA), Oakland's charter music school, now beginning its second year. Using the vacated premises of the Seventh .

Marriage Equality at Stake
John Frando

Many in our neighborhoods celebrated when the California Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that the state Constitution protects a fundamental right to marry. The May 15, 2008 decision legalized same-sex marriage and extended legal equal protection to these families.

Retired Metro Editor "Wrote the Book" for Kodaly
Judith Offer

Toni Locke, the long-time MacArthur Metro editor, started her self-described "first life" as a piano teacher and mother of three in Massachusetts, where most of her family still lives. In her mid-fifties, divorced and looking for a "se.

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