Mark Your Calendar: Holiday Weekend Sales

This one's for you locals: Two great Oakland independent stores are celebrating Presidents Day Weekend -- and getting ready for spring -- with steep discounts on their winter wares.

Uptown Oakland's funky housewares shop and art gallery, Industrielle (shown above), is having a special one-day-only blowout with 40 percent off of its merchandise on Monday, February 18 from noon to 4 p.m. (While you're there, don't miss the Back to Basics photo exhibit.)

And Atomic Garden, the housewares and clothing eco-boutique in Rockridge, has marked down all of its fall goods by 30 to 60 percent.

Happy shopping!