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Residents fight to revive City Stables

OAKLAND — The City Stables on Skyline Boulevard in the Oakland hills means a lot to residents: To some, it was a place where they took their kids for horseback-riding lessons or where they themselves learned how to ride horses. Others may recall the blight that it became over the years.

Now the boarded-up stables, owned by the city of Oakland, have a chance of being revived.

The Metropolitan Equestrian Preservation Society (MEPS) has stepped up with a plan and Oakland is considering contracting the group to run the stables.

At a City Council committee meeting last week, residents came out in droves to show their support for reopening the stables.

Between 1994 and 2004, Wildcat Canyon Youth Ranch Program operated the stables for the city and a service-learning program that served as an alternative school for youth.

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'To Know the Dark' exhibit features American artists' visions of the night

From illuminated city streets to moonlit landscapes, hallucinatory visions and nocturnal scenes of soldiers in battle -- the many ways that artists have captured that evocative period from dusk to dawn will be explored in a new exhibition opening on Monday, Aug. 21, at the Yale University Art Gallery.

Titled "To Know the Dark: American Artists' Visions of Night," the exhibition features 25 works in a range of media, drawn primarily from the gallery's permanent collection of 19th- and 20th-century art.

"Artists and writers have been inspired -- and occasionally haunted -- by the night since the dawn of history," says Jock Reynolds, the Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale University Art Gallery. "This special exhibition is a wonderful way to reintroduce some of the gallery's well-known highlights and less familiar works in a new context.

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