The Alley

Zennie Abraham With Long Time Friend Jackie Simpkins, Alley Cat Oakland Bar Owner, In Vegas

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Zennie Abraham With Long Time Friend Jackie Simpkins, Alley Cat Oakland Bar Owner, In Vegas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY9xeDRZG28 ONN – Zennie Abraham With Long Time Friend Jackie Simpkins, Alley Cat Oakland Bar Owner, In Vegas – video by the YouTube channel in the video’s upper left hand corner. Zennie Abraham With Long Time Friend Jackie Simpkins, Alley Cat Oakland Bar Owner, In Vegas For reasons that really cone down to baser racism, … Read more

Rio California, Oakland City Center Pioneer Restaurant, Needs Help To Stay Open During Pandemic

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Rio California Preservation Park Oakland

The Pandemic, and the close-but-don’t-compensate business policy that’s a response to it, and has wrecked California’s Economy, has hurt many popular restaurants and bars like The Alley Cat Bar and now Rio California at 1233 Preservation Park Way, Oakland. I mention Rio California because it was and remains one of the favorite places for City … Read more

SAVE THE ALLEY OAKLAND FUNDRAISER REACHES $75,000 GOAL ONE WEEK AFTER GOFUNDME PAGE WAS MADE

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SAVE THE ALLEY OAKLAND FUNDRAISER REACHES $75,000 GOAL ONE WEEK AFTER GOFUNDME PAGE WAS MADE

SAVE THE ALLEY OAKLAND FUNDRAISER REACHES $75,000 GOAL ONE WEEK AFTER GOFUNDME PAGE WAS MADE From YouTube Channel: December 24, 2020 at 02:45PM ONN – SAVE THE ALLEY OAKLAND FUNDRAISER REACHES $75,000 GOAL ONE WEEK AFTER GOFUNDME PAGE WAS MADE Yep. The effort to raise $75,000 to Save The Alley just topped $75,000 and is … Read more

The Family Of Ben Runnels Donated $5,000 To Save The Alley – Ben Died In The Oakland Ghost Ship Fire

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The Family Of Ben Runnels Donated $5,000 To Save The Alley – Ben Died In The Ghost Ship Fire

The Family Of Ben Runnels Donated $5,000 To Save The Alley – Ben Died In The Ghost Ship Fire ONN – The Family Of Ben Runnels Donated $5,000 To Save The Alley – Ben Died In The Ghost Ship Fire – vlog by Zennie62 YouTube The Family Of Ben Runnels Donated $5,000 To Save The … Read more

Save The Alley Oakland GoFundMe Fundraiser Now Less Than $10K Away From $75,000 Goal

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Save The Alley Oakland Fundraiser Now Less Than $10K Away From $75,000 Goal

Save The Alley Oakland Fundraiser Now Less Than $10K Away From $75,000 Goal From YouTube Channel: December 23, 2020 at 05:50PM ONN – Save The Alley Oakland Fundraiser Now Less Than $10K Away From $75,000 Goal The effort to Save The Alley – The Alley Cat Bar at 3325 Grand Avenue – that started last … Read more

Save The Alley Cat Oakland Bar As We Talk About The Legendary Piano Bar

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Save The Alley Cat Oakland Bar As We Talk About The Legendary Piano Bar

Save The Alley Cat Oakland Bar As We Talk About The Legendary Piano Bar From YouTube Channel: December 19, 2020 at 12:53AM ONN – Save The Alley Cat Oakland Bar As We Talk About The Legendary Piano Bar The Alley Cat Bar is a legendary piano bar and restaurant that’s become a home-away-from home for … Read more

Save The Alley Cat Bar: 3325 Grand Avenue Oakland Needs Our Help To Stay Alive During The Pandemic

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Save The Alley! The Alley Cat Bar, the legendary local landmark at 3325 Grand Avenue in Oakland, and that’s so much a part of Oakland’s history, and is one of a few active piano bars in the World, needs our help to stay open during The Pandemic. So let’s save The Alley! As a long … Read more

The Alley Cat Bar Oakland: A Drunken Rendition Of New York, New York

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The Alley Cat Bar Oakland: A Drunken Rendition Of New York, New York

The Alley Cat Bar Oakland: A Drunken Rendition Of New York, New York
From YouTube Channel: May 14, 2014 at 02:46AM
ONN – The Alley Cat Bar Oakland: A Drunken Rendition Of New York, New York

The Alley Oakland, California, at 3325 Grand Avenue, has it’s moments. Like this one just over a month ago, when a group of obviously drunk people tried to sing “New York, New York.”

UPDATE: Also the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg revealed the 2001 marriage of two regulars at The Alley Oakland.

Stay tuned.

Note from Zennie62Media and Oakland News Now: this video-blog post demonstrates the full and live operation of the latest updated version of an experimental Zennie62Media , Inc. mobile media video-blogging system network that was launched June 2018. This is a major part of Zennie62Media , Inc.’s new and innovative approach to the production of news media. What we call “The Third Wave of Media”. The uploaded video is from a vlogger with the Zennie62 on YouTube Partner Channel, then uploaded to and formatted automatically at the Oakland News Now site and Zennie62-created and owned social media pages. The overall objective is smartphone-enabled, real-time, on the scene reporting of news, interviews, observations, and happenings anywhere in the World and within seconds and not hours. Now, news is reported with a smartphone: no heavy and expensive cameras or even a laptop are necessary. The secondary objective is faster, and very inexpensive media content news production and distribution. We have found there is a disconnect between post length and time to product and revenue generated. With this, the problem is far less, though by no means solved. Zennie62Media is constantly working to improve the system network coding and seeks interested content and media technology partners.

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Officiated Marriage Of Oakland’s Jane Greenberg And Albert Dicruttalo

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Officiated Marriage Of Oakland's Jane Greenberg And Albert Dicruttalo

The late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has an interesting connection to Oakland, California: she married an Oakland couple who also are regulars (and friends of mine) at The Alley Cat Bar at 3325 Grand Avenue. This is what Jane posted on Facebook, reprinted here at Oakland News Now with her permission:

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Officiated Marriage Of Oakland's Jane Greenberg And Albert Dicruttalo
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Officiated Marriage Of Oakland’s Jane Greenberg And Albert Dicruttalo

In 2001, after 11 years of living in sin, Albert and I decided to get married. My mom asked if she should contact RBG to see if she would officiate our ceremony. Ruth and her husband Marty had gone to college with my parents. My response was, “That’s ridiculous. Don’t ask. Surely she has more important ways to spend her time. “ Albert’s response was, “Hell, yes!” He was (and still is) smarter than me. I’m not sure why Ruth agreed to do it, but she did.

I didn’t meet Ruth until the wedding, but I knew that my parents had named me Jane after Ruth and Marty’s daughter, Jane Ginsberg. Not that they were especially close, but Jane Greenberg had that same ring, and it sounded good to them. I take great pride in being a Ginsberg namesake. Ruth was awesome at the wedding. She gracefully posed for photos with our whacky friends. There were no complaints when her secret service men got smeared with face glitter. She was the most understated superstar.

There have been so many tough days in our recent past, but this is an especially hard blow. Thank you RBG for your quiet and fierce determination to fight the good fight. Rest In Power. Rest In Peace

Stay tuned.

The Alley Bar Oakland And Martuni’s SF Virtual Piano Bar Saturday Night

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The Alley Bar Oakland And Martuni's Sf Virtual Piano Bar Saturday Night

Think The Alley Bar Oakland and Martuni’s San Francisco Piano Bar are closed? Well, they are and they’re not. Tonight, and right now, the four piano players from both legendary establishments are playing in a virtual piano bar.

Here’s what they wrote:

4 Pianists, 40 Fingers and 352 Keys of Fun!! Join Jef Labes and Bryan Seet of The Alley Piano Bar in Oakland as they pair up with Joe Wicht and Russell Deason of Martuni’s Piano bar in San Francisco for an evening of piano bar magic. Tips graciously accepted for all pianists tonight at https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RussellDeason

Visit here at this link.

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With Rod Dibble At The Piano The Alley Oakland’s Susan Esposito Sings The Song “Lush Life”

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With Rod Dibble At The Piano The Alley Oakland’s Susan Esposito Sings The Song “lush Life”

With Rod Dibble At The Piano The Alley Oakland’s Susan Esposito Sings The Song “Lush Life”
From YouTube Channel: December 23, 2017 at 02:28AM
ONN – With Rod Dibble At The Piano The Alley Oakland’s Susan Esposito Gives Best Singing Performance Ever

Rod Dibble passed away this week, and so in remembrance of this long time Oakland living landmark, I, Zennie Abraham, am producing a retrospective playlist of videos from my Zennie62 on YouTube channel.

This one is of The Alley regular Susan Esposito, and belting out her rendition of the song “Lush Life” on March 16th, 2012. If you want to follow along, and maybe even visit The Alley at 3325 Grand Avenue in Oakland, and try your voice (and maybe meet Susan and trade notes), here’s the lyrics to the song:

used to visit all the very gay places
Those come what may places
Where one relaxes on the axis of the wheel of life
To get the feel of life
From jazz and cocktails
The girls I knew had sad and sullen gray faces
With distingué traces
That used to be there you could see where
They’d been washed away
By too many through the day
Twelve o’clocktails

Then you came along with your siren’s song
To tempt me to madness
I thought for a while that your pointed smile
Was tinged with the sadness
Of a great love for me
Ah yes I was wrong
Again I was wrong

Life is lonely again
And only last year
Everything seemed so assured
Now life is awful again
And the thoughtful of heart
Could only be a bore

A week in paris will ease the bite of it
All I care is to smile in spite of it
I’ll forget you I will
And yet you are still
Burning inside my brain

Romance is mush
Stifling those who strive
I’ll live a lush
Life in some small dive
And there I’ll be
While I rot with the rest
Of those whose lives are lonely too

by Billy Strayhorn

Stay tuned.
Stay tuned.

Note from Zennie62Media and Oakland News Now: this video-blog post demonstrates the full and live operation of the latest updated version of an experimental Zennie62Media , Inc. mobile media video-blogging system network that was launched June 2018. This is a major part of Zennie62Media , Inc.’s new and innovative approach to the production of news media. What we call “The Third Wave of Media”. The uploaded video is from a vlogger with the Zennie62 on YouTube Partner Channel, then uploaded to and formatted automatically at the Oakland News Now site and Zennie62-created and owned social media pages. The overall objective is smartphone-enabled, real-time, on the scene reporting of news, interviews, observations, and happenings anywhere in the World and within seconds and not hours. Now, news is reported with a smartphone: no heavy and expensive cameras or even a laptop are necessary. The secondary objective is faster, and very inexpensive media content news production and distribution. We have found there is a disconnect between post length and time to product and revenue generated. With this, the problem is far less, though by no means solved. Zennie62Media is constantly working to improve the system network coding and seeks interested content and media technology partners.

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August 4 2012 Zennie Abraham 50th Birthday Party At The Alley Oakland

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August 4 2012 Zennie Abraham 50th Birthday Party At The Alley Oakland

August 4 2012 Zennie Abraham 50th Birthday Party At The Alley Oakland ONN – August 4 2012 Zennie Abraham 50th Birthday Party At The Alley Oakland – Note from Zennie62Media and Oakland News Now: this video-blog post demonstrates the full and live operation of the latest updated version of an experimental Zennie62Media , Inc. mobile … Read more

When Oakland’s New Racism Started: What A Drunk Racist White English Guy At The Alley Did In 2013

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When Oakland’s New Racism Started: What A Drunk Racist White English Guy At The Alley Did In 2013

When Oakland’s New Racism Started: What A Drunk Racist White English Guy At The Alley Did In 2013 ONN – When Oakland’s New Racism Started: What A Drunk Racist White English Guy At The Alley Did In 2013 Oakland’s New Racism Must Be Stopped. Oakland is being victimized by a new racist element that thinks … Read more

The Alley Cat Bar In Oakland At 3325 Grand Avenue Has “The Oakland Song”

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“the Oakland Song” At The Alley Cat Bar Oakland 3325 Grand Avenue

“The Oakland Song” At The Alley Cat Bar Oakland 3325 Grand Avenue ONN – The Alley Cat Bar In Oakland At 3325 Grand Avenue Has “The Oakland Song” The Alley is the place where the late Rod Dibble taught me and a generation of patrons (The Alley Cat Bar and Restaurant at 3325 Grand Avenue … Read more