Contract with the owners and were illegally occupying this house. The Property Owner offered to pay for two months of housing elsewhere and offer a mover. The mothers called it an insult. This is out of our hands. The sheriffs will evict them and its quite possible they will be coming this week, maybe even tomorrow. We encourage them to leave peacefully and voluntarily. We are here and we are not leaving. Weve been here since november 18 and that is a win for us. [ cheers and applause ] reporter the last piece of video showed that walker and her children are here and they had entered the unoccupied home in midnovember and since then, several other homeless moms and kids joined them. Wedgewood properties purchased the property in july for 500,000 and the moms want wedgewood to sell them the house. They said the housing crisis in oakland is outofcontrol and there are too many vacant homes and that housing is a vacant home owners right. People have been bringing food to the moms and they
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Qué Rico opens in Oakland, a sign of hope for the East Bay s LGBTQ nightlife scene
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“Oakland needed this.”
That’s what one patron exclaimed to Valentino Carrillo on a recent Saturday evening as the sold-out drag show in the parklet of his newly opened LGBTQ+ restaurant and nightclub came to a close.
It was a response that stuck with the longtime East Bay nightlife promoter, whose latest venture, Qué Rico, comes after the recent loss of adjoining nightclubs Club BnB and Club 21, where Carrillo served as the director of operations and marketing for more than 15 years. When those clubs shuttered at the beginning of 2020 after a landlord dispute and were converted into shared tech offices, Oakland was left with just two LGBTQ+ nightlife venues: Port Bar on Broadway and the historic White Horse Inn on Telegraph Avenue.