Hot Ticket in The Town this week: 20th annual Temescal Street Fair<\/p>\n
The family-friendly free festival in North Oakland will feature two music stages, including a HipHop TV stage that will honor the 60th anniversary of the Black Panther Party with a performance by SambaFunk and DJ sets by Davey D, Tabu and DC is Chillin.\u2019 The main stage will feature performances by artists such as rapper J. Walt and singer-songwriter B. DeVeaux, both alums of Oakland School for the Arts. The festival will also include a fashion show, a TURFinc dance battle, an artisan market and more.
Saturday, July 11, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., free, Telegraph Avenue between 44th and 51st streets<\/p>\n
\u2018Wood Street\u2019 documentary at Grand Lake Theater<\/p>\n
This film by journalist and filmmaker Caron Creighton follows a year in the life of Oakland\u2019s largest unhoused encampment<\/a> as its residents face eviction. The documentary has already sold out a screening at the New Parkway, but there are still tickets available for a screening the next day at the Grand Lake Theater.\u00a0 Pete Escovedeo\u2019s \u2018Rebirth Through Time\u2019 art opening<\/p>\n The legendary percussionist always comes back to his hometown to celebrate his birthday by showcasing his artwork<\/a> and playing shows at Yoshi\u2019s<\/a>. The exhibit of his pen and ink paintings will be on display through July 31. Test your U.S. History trivia event<\/p>\n The Oakland Public Library is celebrating the country\u2019s 250th anniversary with a special trivia event where you can test your U.S. history and civics knowledge, based on questions from the U.S. naturalization test. The winner will receive an OPL tote bag. \u2018House of the Dragon\u2019 season 3 watch party<\/p>\n If you have been obsessing over the popular HBO series, a prequel to \u201cGame of Thrones,\u201d then head to Golden Ratio on Franklin Street , where you can gather with other fans eager to follow Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen\u2019s quest for the Iron Throne. The event kicks off each Sunday with an open discussion among attendees, a screening of the previous episode, followed by a watch party for the new episode. Historical walk of the F. M. \u201cBorax\u201d Smith Estate<\/p>\n The palm trees that lined 9th Avenue from East 24th to East 28th streets are the remnants of Arbor Villa<\/a>, the 35-acre estate of Francis Marion \u201cBorax\u201d Smith, who cofounded The Realty Syndicate, Oakland\u2019s leading real estate development group at the time. Smith was also influential in developing the Key System, a privately-owned transit system that served Alameda and Contra Costa counties for decades between 1903 and 1960. This Saturday, the Oakland Heritage Alliance, with tour guide Phil Bellman, will lead participants around those palms along with Oak Hall, the Mary R. Smith Cottages and other historic houses, including ones designed by Bernard Maybeck and Julia Morgan, that were part of the historic estate. This is a two-mile-long hilly walk. Coming soon to The Town: Melba Moore at Yoshi\u2019s<\/p>\n The actress and R&B singer Melba Moore, who started performing on Broadway stages in the late 1960s, recently self-published a memoir, \u201cThis Is It: Marvelous & Getting Better.\u201d\u00a0 She is going on tour and will play a show in Oakland in August that will feature her classic hits \u201cYou Stepped Into My Life\u201d and \u201cLove\u2019s Comin\u2019 at Cha\u201d as well as songs from her years on Broadway.\u00a0 “*” indicates required fields<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is so much happening in Oakland this weekend that we had to throw in a bonus event.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144,5499],"class_list":["post-391078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-this-week-in-oakland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Wednesday, July 15, 7:30 p.m., $15<\/a>, Grand Lake Theater, 3200 Grand Ave.<\/p>\n
Opening reception, Thursday, July 9, 5 to 8 p.m., free, The Grand Gallery Oakland, 560 2nd St.<\/p>\n
Saturday, July 11, 2 p.m., free, main library branch, 125 14th St.<\/p>\n
Every Friday, 4 p.m., free, Golden Ratio, 1517 Franklin St.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Saturday, July 11, 10 a.m., $15 to $20<\/a>, meet at the redwood tree near 1105 McKinley Ave. at Home Place East<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/MELBA-MOORE-COVER-HI-RESOLUTION_-1600x1067.jpg\")
New York songstress Melba Moore has a singing and acting career spanning five decades since her debut album \u201cI Got Love\u201d was released in 1971. Credit: courtesy of Double XXposure Media Relations<\/p>\n
Wednesday, Aug. 5, 7 p.m., $45 to $79<\/a>, 510 Embarcadero West<\/p>\n