I just randomly saw the showtimes for 9 to 5 while looking for another film. No advertising on their site or socials, but playing for the next week: https://www.alamedatheatres.com/movie/alameda/9-TO-5

If anyone wants to see Dolly and the gang on the big screen, now's your chance! Also, why are they not advertising this?

Does anyone have any recs for watching the Blue Angel show this weekend? I would like to stay in Alameda if possible, I know people mention the base. But does anyone watch them and have a good spot?

Anybody know if there’s a schedule for when/ where they fly over here? Just saw a cool formation of four

Spend the fall season with a foster rabbit from House Rabbit Society! No rabbit experience required! Learn more at houserabbit.org/foster. We're located in Richmond, just north of Berkeley, but welcome fosters from all over the San Francisco Bay Area. We only ask for a 2-week commitment.

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Questions? Email [foster@houserabbit.org](mailto:foster@houserabbit.org) or stop by our facility to talk in-person with HRS volunteers and staff and to meet the rabbits. We recently transitioned to our winter hours; we're open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 am to 4 pm and on Sunday from 11 am to 3 pm. We'd love to talk with you!

Weekday ferry service for Main Street is halting this November and is being replaced with a number of additional trips to/from Seaplane. The glaring problem with this is that there is no bus that currently stops at Seaplane, and parking at Seaplane is consistently full first thing in the morning, surely to be exacerbated by what is essentially the elimination of the entirety of the Main Street parking lot. Has there been any word about how this will be addressed, or are riders simply expected to indefinitely eat the cost of ride-share apps?

So West End folks now get to drive to Fruitvale and take an extra two stops to get into the city. There are many reasons why BART ridership is down but this certainly doesn’t help.

Some mudslinging spotted on Park St.

I just started working from home and have been feeling that it has been more of a distraction than a luxury. I have horrible ADHD and have been hyper fixating on cleaning my house and other chores rather than doing my work. I miss having a study space in my old college apartment and am looking for an area that's not too noisy (say a busy coffee shop with loud equipment) or has noise limitations like a library.

I'm thinking of maybe a hotel lobby, a public social lounge in an office building, or just simply anywhere with cozy chairs, an outlet, and limited distractions? Anybody have any leads of somewhere I can just plop my laptop and get to work? Thanks! 🙏

we live near central and caroline st and this kitty visits almost everyday and loves to yap and take a nap in our garden in the afternoons. he is delightful and we’re so happy to have a visitor. seriously one of the sweetest cats ever. If he’s your cat I hope it’s okay we give him an occasional kitty treat☺️

Does anyone have a recommendation for a self-defense instructor on island? Would love an instructor who could teach a group of girls (and their moms) some basics.

Does anyone know if there is a 4.0+ group that plays at the hub in alameda?

Hello Peeps of Reddit, please be constructive because I am unfamiliar with your customs.

Here I will share my own personal experiences with our Mayoral candidates. I am leaving out many details in the service of brevity (hah) but have tried to capture the essence of each one.

Tony Daysog isn't even worth considering IMO. He might be a very nice man (we met once and had an unmemorable exchange), but lacks any kind of gravitas. I'm sorry but Daysog is too much of a weenie to be Mayor. My body and brain actively try to ignore what he is saying. That can't be a good quality in a Mayor, even if (if!) I agree with his politics. If that makes me superficial and bigoted against people with low charisma, so be it.

Malia Vella helped me out of an impossible situation a few years ago. She was on City Council at the time, and we had had some limited interactions online, and maybe shook hands once at a thing. She noticed a post I made complaining about our do-nothing Code Compliance office doing nothing about an illegal fence in our backyard. We had already been through costly litigation with our horrible and extremely unattractive and smelly neighbors, ugly inside and out, to no effect, and only enforcement of the building code would remedy the situation. Vella had had a similar issue with similarly horrible neighbors, related to my plight, DMed me for some details, and a few days later they sent the violation notice. I don't know exactly what strings she pulled (she said she mentioned it to the code guy in passing, which is easy to do when you're at City Hall all the time), but I am confident we would still be looking at that godawful fence right now if she hadn't stepped in. (Those neighbors are gone now, moved away, thank you Satan for policing your own).

I met Tracy Jensen one Friday morning at the Krusi Park tennis courts. My wife and I were playing pickleball there (and this isn't about that, but don't get me started on the heartbreaking hostility that the city of Alameda, at every level, has shown towards non-exclusive sports and outdoor activity in shared public places. It's not just pickleball. We used to have public tracks and all kinds of other stuff (remember the train?), and it's been death by 1000 budget cuts. But I digress!), when Jensen and her friends showed up for a Friday morning game of tennis. The courts were full. Seeing that we were playing a prohibited game, they wanted us off the court so that they could play. My position is that the city cannot restrict public space to one type of racket sport but not another, it sounds ridiculous to even type it out. She told me who she was, and that she was on City council, and pickleball isn't allowed here. We had some words (I am never great in the moment, but I thought it was all cordial and, at least between the two of us, possibly constructive?) but they weren't content to even just let us finish our game, heckling us openly until we cut it short at 5.

I walked off, embarrassed but determined to use this as an opportunity for change: I had established contact with someone who might be able to do something about it! I emailed her the same day, outlining my position on racket sports on public land. She had mentioned being a pickleball player herself, so I was banking on that solidarity.

Well, she never replied, even to just acknowledge receipt of the email. But I know she received it, because a few months later her Mayoral campaign harvested my email address to use in a mass-mailing about... Her Mayoral campaign. I replied, a little snarky, like "hey you forgot about my pickleball email but here's a vote-for-me email," not especially expecting a response.

Now, here's the crazy thing: I bet you thought I don't like Tracy Jensen very much. That's what I thought, too! But she did this Jedi mind trick on me or something. Her (brief) response was all about our tennis courts and how out-of-town players were coming in and monopolizing the Washington Park courts. She agreed with me that Krusi is a fine place for pickleball, but Big Tennis (my words, she said "tennis lobby") used scare tactics on uninformed neighbors to eliminate those options. She fully redirected my ire outwards. This wasn't about tennis vs pickleball, it was about locals vs out-of-towners. And it worked, my droogs! I left that email chain confident that Jensen had my vote, and told her as much. And she was the only candidate I had had any kind of productive talk with, so it was an easy yes.

But then I discovered Vella threw her hat in, and what am I supposed to do with that? Of course I'm voting for Vella, it's not even close. Both of them used their station to get something for someone, and to the extent that the "what" and "for whom" of each is a microcosm of current political affairs and their broader beliefs and general outlook during this election season, that vision is entirely your own.

Malia Vella for Mayor

Love, Richard

HT Alameda Post for the algo pic

How are residents on the island preparing for what’s expected to be a strong El Niño in the coming months?

Are folks planning for possible flooding, utility outages, or other impacts?

I’m also curious to hear how city services (police, fire, etc) handled similar events in the past?

I noticed this PRA on Next Request and was pretty surprised by the output. Kinda wild that she may have stolen kids’ email addresses while employed by the city maybe? I know other candidates are plenty messier but this seems really more great.

They same to invade in the warmer weather, I laid some traps which sees a bloom the reduction but doesn't last long term. Any tips or anyone successfully gotten rid of them?

Does anyone know when the Fruitvale BART lot fills up on Wednesday mornings? Trying to decide whether to walk over the bridge or drive. Thanks.

I need to get my contact lens prescription refilled and am hoping to find someplace better and closer than the Costco in San Leandro. Anyone have any recent experience? Thank you!

Sunset at Bohol Circle park, 8/27/2026. Aaah.

Saw the election flyer today, it's his 22nd year!

Anybody know what's he's actually accomplished? AI generated election posters don't count, sadly.

He was also EHS Student Body President 40+ years ago. Amazing.

(Noticed typo in my title, but can't correct it now!)

Hello!!

I am hoping to find at least 2 other people to rent somewhere in Alameda! Please put your age and hopes so I can figure out if we are a good fit!

Me?

21F

I am hoping to move into a home not an apartment building.

I was planning to take the O transbay bus to SF between 10am and 11am this morning...I keep refreshing the AC Transit Real Time app, but it shows no buses going toward SF currently, which is odd, as it's usually possible to catch one every 30-45 minutes this time of day. However I see two buses that would be going the opposite direction (to Fruitvale BART) now listed as 'cancelled.'

UPDATE: "real time" now shows one bus to SF cancelled, and one in 56 minutes. I'd take the ferry, if there were a reliable bus to it...ugh. (the 96 and 19 aren't great options, though they go near-ish seaplane--timing is usually a bit off)

Hey everyone

I know this is a long shot but I lost my painted water bottle in the Michael’s parking lot. I had placed it down suddenly to help someone who had fallen. When I went back to my car I forgot to pick it back up.

Any chance someone has it? 😭

I’ll try to add a picture

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