SF Restaurants, Food & Drink East Bay Bar Ivy Room Is Boycotting All the Liquor Brands Who Yanked Their Pride Sponsorships After booze conglomerate Diageo pulled their sponsorship dollars from this year’s SF Pride festivities, Albany’s live music bar The Ivy Room has decided that they will no longer stock that company's brands, including Ketel One and Johnny Walker.
Bay Area Sports 83-Year-Old Golden Gate Fields Has Run Its Last Race, Closed Permanently on Sunday The Berkeley-Albany horse-racing track Golden Gate Fields, the last full-time horse-race track in Northern California, ran its last race ever on Sunday as the facility is now closed permanently. And no one has any idea what will happen next to those 140 acres.
SF News New York Times Takes Deep Dive Into 2017 Albany High School Instagram Scandal Over a Racist Meme Account Back in 2017, the small East Bay town of Albany was roiled by the discovery of a wildly racist "finsta" account that posted memes as well as doctored photos of students of color at Albany High School. The aftermath was violent, lengthy, and litigious.
SF News Talk of Redeveloping Golden Gate Fields Has Already Begun Following Monday's announcement that 80-year-old East Bay racetrack Golden Gate Fields plans to shut down racing for good this fall, the talk has already begun about could be done with the 140-acre property.
SF Politics Giant Christian Cross Removed From Albany Hill Park, Lawsuit Will Decide Whether It Returns A 52-year-old, 28-foot cross that was lit up for Easter and Christmas at Albany Hill Park has been removed by the City of Albany because it promotes one religion over others, and to boot, its electrical writing may pose a fire risk.
SF News Another Bay Area Movie Theater Closes, This Time the 88-Year-Old Albany Twin We’ve seen this movie many times before as theaters try to emerge from the pandemic slump, but this one's truly the end of an era, as the 88-year-old Albany Twin theater on Solano Avenue suddenly closed permanently on Thursday.
Arts & Entertainment Trivia Dream Come True: Amy Schneider to Host ‘Literary Pub Trivia’ Night on Tuesday The Bay Area Book Festival scored a pretty big get with 40-time Jeopardy! champion Amy Schneider hosting a Literary Pub Trivia night Tuesday, and there’s still time for you to register to compete.
SF News Albany High Expels Teen Over Racist Instagram Posts, Parents Vow Lawsuit Deplorable teens will be deplorable teens, but an East Bay school district has drawn the line at racism and veiled threats of violence. You may recall the saga of 13 Albany High School
SF News Albany Teens Sue School For Right To 'Like' Racist Memes In the East Bay community of Albany, four students are suing the school district over being disciplined for commenting on or ‘Liking’ images on a racist Instagram account. According to ABC 7, the
SF News Wild Turkeys Terrorizing Albany Now The Wild Turkeys of Berkeley, which we first heard about last year but which seem to have been proliferating for several years now, have moved in to Albany. As CBS 5 is reporting,
SF News Occupy The Farm Cleared Out By UC Police One Last Time For the second time in a week, UC police donned riot gear and descended on the Gill Tract in Albany in the early morning hours today to clear out the remaining, stalwart Occupy
SF News UC Police Kick Occupiers Off Farm Tract In Albany On Earth Day, a couple of hundred protesters descended on some UC Berkeley-owned property in neighboring Albany and began planting beans, and raspberries. The protesters, along with some neighbors in the area, want
SF News Occupiers Till Some Soil In East Bay, 'Take Back' UC Land For Farming A group calling themselves Occupy the Farm to Take Back the Gill Tract broke open a fence on Sunday surrounding some vacant land in Albany and, in honor of Earth Day, started building
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Wild Turkeys Of Berkeley Mentioned in Morning Links, but too good not to award its own post: Berkeleyside gives us yet another reason to visit Berkeley—our goal in 2012 is to head over there at least
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What’s There To Love About the East Bay? Lots! A Penny-Pincher’s Guide to Albany You wouldn’t know it from the property values or the chi chi restaurants on Solano Avenue, but Albany has many a cheap option that can accommodate our miserly lifestyle. Option #1: Albany
Arts & Entertainment What’s There to Love About the East Bay: Lots! Next Up: The Troubled Tale of the Speakeasy Theaters But apparently all is not well in the land of discount movies and cheap beer. The Contra Costa County Times is reporting that the new Cerrito Theater is having some trouble trying to
SF News This Week In Your Commute News First we turn to the water where an expected eight ferry terminals are to be built in the coming years to service all of those commuters who've moved far, far away from San
SF News Going, Going, Sold! Long-standing live music venue, The Ivy Room, in Albany is also closing "as we know it." The current ownership relinquishes the premises in two weeks. Kimberly Chun and the Guardian have the details,
SF News Bust out your high-tops For millions of fans and office pool players, and even the uninitiated, the month of March is all about college basketball. The women's tournament and the NIT are part of the tasty delight
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Million-Dollar Bake-Off We love those Food Network cookoff challenges! Make a birthday cake for Elvis! Decorate the best gingerbread house! Who can make the tallest ice/pastry sculpture? So we can't wait for Food Network's
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Owen Linderholm The bloggers are: Stephanie Lucianovic, The Grub Report, of San Francisco, Guy Prince (aka Dr Biggles, featured in a Chron article with SFist Sam), Meathenge, from Albany, Ellen Ferlazzo, Chronicles of a Curious
SF News Yahoo In Fight with Dead Soldier's Family Way back in May, Slashdotter dacar asked "What Happens To Your Data When You Die?" Your computer, your web accounts, your password-locked digital devices would all be rendered useless to your surviving friends
