SF News Meanwhile, On The New Bay Bridge... Light poles illuminate the new east span of the Bay Bridge during a system lighting preview by Caltrans on Thursday. AP notes. "The custom-made lights will create a safer driving experience for motorists
SF News Obama Welcomed To East Bay With 'I Hella [Heart] Oakland' T-Shirt President Obama swung through the Bay Area on another one of his fundraising campaign stops yesterday. While he was met with medical marijuana demonstrations on the streets of Oakland yesterday afternoon, the President
SF News Oakland Mayor Jean Quan Admits She Screwed Up Something Else Over in the East Bay, Oaklanders skittish from what we can only assume is the constant wee-ooo-wee-ooo-wee-ooo of Police sirens have been waiting patiently for updates on Mayor Quan's 100 Blocks Initiative. The
SF News Oakland Not Just 'Cooler,' It's Also Great for Business? The Guardian tried to tell us Oakland was cooler than San Francisco a few weeks ago, and now Fast Company is selling folks on the idea that Oakland is where it's at for
Arts & Entertainment Concord Gets Its First Feature-Length Movie: 'Love, Concord' Let's start things off by saying that if you're not reading Claycord, you're not living out loud. Really. It's a formidable site on all things Concord, Clayton, Pleasant Hill, Walnut Creek and Martinez.
SF News Three Weeks After Massacre, Oikos University Reopens Three weeks after disgruntled student One Goh allegedly shot 10 people (killing 7), Oikos University will reopen today. "English teacher Lucas Garcia was the first instructor to arrive at the campus on Edgewater
SF News Mission Thought to Be Incredibly Dangerous By East Bay Folk Many older people who reside in the East Bay (and probably elsewhere) continue to believe that the Mission is nothing but a cesspit of crime and poverty, and that "white girls shouldn't be
SF News 4.0 Earthquake Hits East Bay A minor 4.0 quake hit the Bay Area at 5:33 Monday morning, rattling parts of San Francisco and the East Bay. Did you feel it? According to USGS, it was centered
SF News East Bay Motorcyclist Plunges Off Overpass Wall, Dies A motorcyclist, 22, driving along I-80 at around 3 a.m. crashed into an overpass wall, fell over "dozens of feet," and died. "The motorcyclist was transitioning from northbound Interstate 880 to westbound
SF News East Bay BART Train Kills Man A little before 7 p.m. on Monday, a man died after walking on the BART tracks at the MacArthur station. A Richmond-bound train plowed into the unidentified man, killing him instantly. According
SF News Dear Lord, Crime Has Skyrocketed In Piedmont! Over in sunny, tranquil Piedmont, where the women never wear poly blends and the men all have excellent golf swings, the crime rate in 2011 has every yogilates class and PTA meeting abuzz
SF News Police Sweep Out Nascent Occupy Oakland Encampment Just as soon as it came—on Tuesday, to be exact—last night police evicted residents of the new Occupy Oakland encampment on the 2000 block of Peralta Street near Mandela Parkway. Set
SF News Attention East Bay Commuters: BART Wants To Walk You Home After taking a lot of crap this year for shutting off cellphones and shooting a guy, the BART Police force is looking to make good this holiday season. In a press release, by
Arts & Entertainment Mythbusters Mishap Sends Cannonball Sailing Through East Bay Home [Updated] It finally happened. A Mythbusters experiment went awry at the Alameda County bomb range yesterday. Despite the usual number of safety measures you might expect from a reality TV crew with high insurance
SF News Man Shot Over Black Friday Haul At Wal-Mart During the early morning Black Friday rush in the East Bay suburbs, a family of eager shoppers was held up at gunpoint in the parking lot of a San Leandro Wal-Mart. Reports say
SF News Local News Report Investigates the East Bay Hyena Colony Today in delightful local TV news reports, CBS5 has the hard-hitting report of a secret compound hidden in the East Bay hills that is home to the world's only captive Hyena colony. Created
SF News Occupy Oakland and Occupy Cal to Merge in 'Carnivalesque' Union After Monday morning's Occupy Oakland raid dismantled the encampment at Frank Ogawa Plaza, the noted East Bay protesters, now without a headquarters, will merge with Occupy UC Berkeley protesters today. According to The
SF News Oakland Braces for Occupy General Strike [UPDATED] The scene at 14th and Broadway, noted as the Occupy Oakland epicenter, has grown in numbers as the morning wears at today's general strike. With chants of "take the streets, take the streets"
SF News 3.6 Earthquake Hits Berkeley Following Thursday's small quake, another slight yet significant earthquake rattled the East Bay at 5:36 this morning, centered in Berkeley. This was the latest tremor to hit the Hayward fault in Berkeley
SF News Minor 3.2 Quake Rattles East Bay A small JELL-O Jiggler of a quake hit the East Bay this afternoon. It struck at 3:44 p.m. and measured 3.2. We didn't think much of it until CBS 5
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, in Oakland If your ride on the Orange & Black rollercoaster is making you ill, consider the bounty our friends to the east have on offer: the Oakland-centric film Moneyball premieres at The Paramount Theatre
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Popular Raw/Vegan Chain Accused of Socialist Tip-Pooling Scheme Cafe Gratitude, the popular local chain of raw/vegan restaurants with locations around the Bay Area and as far south as LA, has been slapped with a lawsuit from a former employer who
SF News Castro Valley Has So Many Gays Their Pride March Has Become a Rally Quiet little East Bay burg Castro Valley was scheduled to host their first ever Pride march tomorrow afternoon, but greater-than-anticipated interest in the event -- at least 300 (!) people have said they're coming
SF News East Bay Youth Group Help Police Sex-Shame Prostitute Customers The East Bay Asian Youth Center started a new program this week to stop sex workers from doing business in their neighborhood. According to KTVU, "Neighbors along International Boulevard in Oakland have long
SF News Heavily Armed East Bay Woman Claims She Killed 91-Year-Old Grandmother in Self-Defense We're not even sure where to begin with this story of elder homicide, domestic disputes and alleged child abuse in Dublin, CA. Rosa Hill, a 36-year-old mother who lost custody of her child
