Laura Flynn

Hear Here: Sam Adato’s Drum Shop, an institution for drummers

Laura Flynn — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:10:58 +0000

The phone is ringing and a constant stream of people are coming through the gated door. Sam Adato, a long-haired rocker and owner of the drum shop, buzzes them in from behind the counter.

Closing the engineering gender gap at Oakland Tech

Laura Flynn — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 01:59:13 +0000

These days, we often hear that the gender gap is closing. Girls in high school are excelling in reading and writing, and they’re making gains in math and science. Moreover, women are applying to colleges in greater numbers than men – and earning more degrees.

On the road to a litter-free environment

Laura Flynn — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 23:40:27 +0000

It’s a cool gray morning at the Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline in Oakland, California. Over 80 volunteers are working along the shoreline picking up trash, pulling out non-native plants, and preparing to restore it to its natural state.

“You would think that you would find like bottles and plastic and stuff, but we found a lot of these white tops. I guess they were like black and mild tops,” says Nneka Anyanwu student from Skyline High School in Oakland.

A final resting place for furry friends

Laura Flynn — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 22:07:07 +0000

In the 1989 Stephen King classic Pet Sematary, the Creed family’s cat, Church, gets hit by a car on the busy road in front of their new home. Rather than burying Church in the pet cemetery with the many other pets who lost their lives on the same road, Louis Creed decides to venture to the burial site just beyond. That’s when things start to get ugly.