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 Today In Purple Gloves They found Shin at his parents' house, hiding in a closet. Once caught, Shin reacted violently to the arrest, hitting one officer in the nose. Before being taken in, though, he called a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The East-Bay Pizza Round-Up: Cheeseboard, Zachary’s and Gioia But as we continue to search for the perfect pizza true to our east coast roots (our hearts belong to New Haven, CT brick ovens), we are happy to report that what we’
SF News She Sells Sanctuary A recent wave of immigration sweeps (or, as Indy Bay calls it "Gestapo Immigration Raiders") is creating a bit of a fuss not only in San Francisco but throughout the Peninsula and East
Arts & Entertainment A New Chef at B Oakland's B Restaurant (or just "B," apparently), promised to be such a place. Since the establishment's doors opened across its refurbished 120-year-old mosaic tile floor in 2005, reviewers have unanimously noted the New
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork: Beading On A Sunny Day Want to know how we spent our sunny Saturday afternoon? It involved some good friends, white wine, and lots of beads. We wanted to craft and enjoy the summer weather we were having,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What's There To Love About the East Bay? Lots! First Stop: Van Kleef's At first, we thought the lonely, empty feel of downtown Oakland after Five kind of depressed us. But no longer! Now we're happy to spend our happy hours (and extended happy hours) at
Arts & Entertainment We Read the Glossies With Rita's blessing, we bring you a brand new column called "We Read the Glossies." It's just like "We Read the Weeklies" only with monthly glossies. Here we review the February issues of
Arts & Entertainment East Bay Barbie We got this forwarded to us in e-mail recently and it's kind of funny. Who doesn't love busting on people from the East Bay. Mattel recently announced the release of the improved limited-edition
SF News The Best Little Whorehouse In Redwood City The two allegedy were running the whorehouse under the guise of one of those Asian massage parlors. To advertise, they ran ads on Craigslist and in print publications like the SF Weekly, the
Arts & Entertainment A Kite Doesn't Run Through Fremont No, we're just joking. It's not known why they're not filming in Fremont as they appear to be filming almost everywhere in the East Bay but Fremont. Scenes so far have been shot
Arts & Entertainment The Way We Were What the newsreel footage is about, actually, is public transportation. Mainly how great ours is and how well it services both San Francisco and the East Bay. Which, of course, is laden with
misc Bay Area Wanderer: Solid Luck We'll go somewhere, take a picture, and tell you a tale. Simple. We'll cover San Francisco, the North Bay, the East Bay, down peninsula way, and -- if we can swing it --
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight We Write the Book Who Wrote the Book of Tea - free public lecture by Norwood Pratt (we don't know if he has a charming British accent, but with a name like that, he so should) hosted
SF News Crash Into Everywhere Today in San Francisco, there was a hit-and-run that left one dead and three hurt. This all occurred late last night, around 12:30 AM when a minivan traveling north on Laguna Street
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
Arts & Entertainment ChronicleWatch Watch: By The Numbers Total number of problems fixed: 139. Breakdown by region: San Francisco -- 70 (29 street repairs, 23 park fixes, 7 public transportation fixes, 11 signs). East Bay -- 44 (21 street, 14 park,
SF News It's Wednesday-- Do You Know Where Your Baseball Team Is? Well, it's official, or at least as official as official gets-- the A's are moving to 'the Burbs. Tuesday they held a press conference with all the official types and even unveiled a
SF News It's Tuesday-- Do You Know Where Your Team Is? Okay, here's today’s team on a move recap: As for things in Oaktown, the repercussions of the A's possible move to Fremont has mainly been a shrug and a cry of "so
SF News It's Monday-- Do You Know Where Your Sports Team Is Called? But there's also some techy news to this story too as Cisco, the company which owns the property the proposed stadium will be built, plans to go all Cypberpunk on the stadium, turning
SF News Your Commute: Bad Day On BART That wasn't all, though -- while the downtown trains were jerking their way eastward, the Millbrae trains were then hit with the dreaded . So basically, no one's going anywhere today. Interestingly, this is
SF News Brinks Truck Heist Goes Bad In one of those stories straight out of a TV show, a security guard for Brinks Trucks, you know the kind of truck that drives around with all that money, was shot and
SF News American Football Spectacular: The Saddest Game Ever. The Chargers utterly dominated the Raiders on both sides of the ball in an ugly display that carried no positive inertia. The men of the Silver And Black were dominated, cowed, and blown
SF News East Bay Blotter It is now illegal in the state of California to steal free newspapers, as reported in the Berkeley Daily Planet, itself, familiar with the issue. Berkeley Mayor, Tom Bates, was happy that the
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,
