Community Corner
Zocalo Celebrates The End of The World
A local preacher's prediction of the Rapture was greeted with potluck and bluegrass at the popular Bancroft Avenue coffeehouse.
owner Tim Holmes marked the day of Rapture with a free party for patrons and passersby.
Residents brought dishes to share and listened to live music from San Leandro band the Tinnitans: David Tholfsen on guitar and Robert Leigh on banjo. The pair appropriately played such songs as Blondie's "Rapture" and REM's "End of the World as We Know It."
As of 3:35 p.m., the world had not ended and the party was still going strong.
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East Bay preacher Harold Camping, 89, is behind the prediction that each time zone around the world would experience cataclysmic events Saturday.
Camping, co-founder of Family Radio Network, said he used mathematical calculations to predict that a series of massive earthquakes will strike by 6 p.m. local time, though so far the rest of the world has escaped Judgement Day unscathed.
