 Recent years have seen the growth of the Oakland Art Murmur event, occurring in the Uptown neighborhood the first Friday evening of every month.The event attracts around 20,000 people along twenty city blocks, featuring live performances, food trucks, and over 30 galleries and venues.Gertrude Stein wrote about Oakland in her 1937 book "Everybody's Autobiography" "There is no there there," upon learning that the neighborhood where she lived as a child had been torn down to make way for an industrial park.