Episode 99
“Is reform possible?”
Investigating Oakland’s dysfunctional police department
Media
East Bay Yesterday in the news
2024
Select Five podcast: 5 Oakland Songs with Liam O’Donoghue
Commonwealth Club podcast: Overlooked histories of the Bay and beyond
2023
KQED Forum: The Bay Area we see through windows of public transit
Oaklandside: “What is it like covering Oakland?” (Culture Makers Q&A)
2022
Alta Journal: A Historical Trip around the Bay
2021
SF Gate: This East Bay journalist started a podcast to keep himself from trespassing
KQED: Hitting the road and building a Northern California Bucket List
Diablo Magazine: Keeping History Alive with Liam O’Donoghue
The Oaklandside: The Black Liberation Walking Tour will use history to root a community in place
Oakland Public Library: Oakland’s waterfront history
Richmond Museum of History and Culture: The Spanish Flu in Richmond
2019
The Monthly: Liam O’Donoghue shares tales of the long lost East Bay (Article also reprinted in Oakland Magazine)
San Francisco Chronicle: What we’ll lose at the water’s edge
East Bay Times: The Bay Area’s oldest black motorcycle club celebrates 60 years in Oakland
Curbed San Francisco: Man versus nature versus man: 50 or so years of the Albany Bulb
CBC: In heartbreak and euphoria, Oracle Arena has meant the world to Warriors fans
The Ringer: Eleven Miles, but a World Away: The Warriors Make Their Last Stand in Oakland
New York Times: The end of the Warriors as we know them
2018
San Francisco Chronicle: Learn about Oakland’s economic divide today by peering into the past
East Bay Express: Mapping history with Long Lost Oakland
The California Report: A time-traveling map for rapidly changing Oakland
East Bay Times: Amateur historian creates map of Long Lost Oakland
SF Gate: An Oakland that’s no longer there: Lost landmarks and what’s there now
Hoodline: Long Lost Oakland maps the city’s past
East Bay Express: Best of the Bay Editor’s Pick – “Best Journalist-Turned-Historian”
East Bay Express: Untangling myths and legends
A Tale of Two Cities podcast: Where are you from?
Oakland Public Library’s Long Lost Oakland event: Photo gallery
2017
Berkeleyside: East Bay Yesterday brings local history to headphones
The E-Ville Eye: East Bay Yesterday podcast capturing and stoking interest in local history
Shaping SF public talk: Local history in your ear (panel discussion)
Stories by Liam O’Donoghue
2024
SF Gate: Historic West Oakland landmark may get long-awaited revamp after decades of neglect
SF Gate: Joyous event outside City Hall shows how Oakland will survive
2023
SF Gate: From ‘rotten’ to ‘renaissance’: This Calif. city makes a surprisingly great day trip
SF Gate: Jazz legend Dave Brubeck’s Modernist masterpiece floats above the Oakland hills
SF Gate: The Bay Area’s most unique music festival takes place at Chapel of the Chimes
SF Gate: I visited a secret Bay Area beach. It was trashed.
SF Gate: ‘Just for locals’: ‘Blindspotting’ is packed with insider Oakland references
SF Gate: Record stores are flourishing in the East Bay. Here are our favorites.
SF Gate: Partying on a secret island exposed by the Bay’s king tides
2022
SF Gate: Meet the detective who keeps Oakland’s Paramount Theater in mint condition
SF Gate: Trove of stolen photos reveals Oakland street life in the 1970s
SF Gate: The hidden park floating above Oakland
Alta Journal: Membership has its privileges
2021
The Public Historian: Stories from the Epicenter podcast review
SF Gate: Trolls are popping up in Oakland’s Dimond Canyon
2020
The Oaklandside: How you organize that rage
2019
Open Space: Yelping Oakland’s past
Berkeleyside: Berkeley’s battles
2018
Bello Collective: Radiolab’s More Perfect flunks a key history lesson
Bello Collective: Podcasts could spark a new golden age of investigative journalism
Berkeleyside: How a little-known Berkeley groups sparked the 1960s student movement
Snap Judgement: Quake City Hero
2017
East Bay Express: Berkeley is the original Sanctuary City
East Bay Express: California’s only Black whaling captain, William Shorey, lived in Oakland
East Bay Express: Oakland’s most iconic tree is named after a socialist firebrand
East Bay Express: The sinister, evil KKK in Oakland once ruled City Hall
East Bay Express: Sugar Pie DeSanto’s delicious soul
East Bay Express: The Albany Cross resurrects memories of the KKK
Hoodline: OMCA Dorothea Lange Photo Exhibit: ‘She Was Always Willing To Take On Anything’
KALW-FM: “I believe in the elders.” The collected wisdom of Pendarvis Harshaw
KQED Arts: ‘Evolutionary Blues’ resurrects West Oakland’s musical legacy
2016 and earlier
Salon:”They really don’t want this out”: The biggest Iraq War scandal that nobody’s talking about
Salon: Don’t call it gentrification
Videos (Interviews, events, and presentations)
Hearing history (Hosted by Alameda Museum)
History of Canyon (Hosted by Museum of San Ramon Valley
Reading into history (Hosted by Oakland Rotary Club)
Opening up about oysters (Hosted by Creative Mornings)
Q&A with Inter State author Jose Vadi (Hosted by Green Apple Books)
Youth gone wild: Intersection of art & rebellion (Hosted by Mechanics’ Institute)
Oakland Puzzle Co. interviews Liam about Long Lost Oakland map
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