Arts & Entertainment Eat Real Festival at Jack London Square This Weekend Oakland's Eat Real Festival, which was founded last year, is a sister event to the San Francisco Street Food Festival and sounds like a much better run event than the SF-based debacle trial
SF News SFist Blotter TODAY/HAYWARD: Someone was shot in Hayward. (Hi, Hayward!) No arrests have been made. There's a $1,000 reward waiting for anyone with info leading to an arrest. Please call Crime Stoppers at
SF News Oakland Boy Missing Five-year-old Hassani Campbell went missing on Monday. The boy, who has cerebral palsy, was last seen in the Rockridge neighborhood, "reported missing from the area of 6000 College Avenue at around 4:15
SF News Mom Kills Son, Then Self at Mt. Diablo The bodies of a Walnut Creek woman and her son were found on Friday at the top of Mount Diablo. Their deaths appears to be the result of a mother-son murder-suicide. Judith Williams,
SF News Mad Cell Phone User Injures 5 In Castro Valley A man in a "dispute over a cellphone and a ring" got super angry in Castro Valley last night and ran his car into five people and a living room, and pinning a
SF News Very Bad Sea Lion Found On the Highway A wayward sea lion was found by Oakland police early this morning after it took a stroll onto northbound Interstate Highway 880. The rapscallion sea lion was detained in an Oakland police vehicle
SF News We Felt It! There was a small 3.2 quake that occurred in the East Bay at 3:30 p.m. today, one kilometer Northeast of El Cerrito. We at SFist felt it in the Tendernob
SF News 'Craigslist Robber' Arrested Dubbed by the media 'The Craigslist Robber' (who joins the 'Craigslist Killer' in the nascent stage of a Craigslist supergroup), 34-year-old Damien Bell is being held without bail after police uncovered DNA evidence
SF News Let's Get Soft On Crime, Says Contra Costa County D.A. Passive-aggressive temper tantrum risking citizen safety? Deft decision to save time and money not prosecuting lesser crimes? Open invitation for anarchistic bedlam? We'll see. After a $1.9 million pruning of his budget,
SF News 3 Oakland Kids Shot in Broad Daylight During a bout of gunfire at the intersection of International Boulevard at 65th Street yesterday afternoon, a 1-year-old girl, a 4-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy were shot and wounded in broad daylight.
SF News Dalai Lama to Cause Traffic Nightmare On Saturday, the arrival of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, along with an Earth Day festival and "special farmer's market celebrating the elimination of plastic bags" (chortle), means that you'll want to stay
SF News Online Date Leads to Violence Three Hayward residents (of course) are sitting in jail facing attempted murder charges after kidnapping and beating a man they met online. The 22-year-old unidentified victim, a San Jose man, had "gone to
SF News BREAKING NEWS: P.S. Alameda Is Burning This just in: A fire larger than a city block is burning on Alameda's Naval Air Station Alameda Point. Flames are burning structures at least three stories tall as firefighters work to contain
SF News Lovelle Mixon Tied to Rape Case? Lovelle Mixon, the Oakland resident who died last Saturday after murdering four Oakland police officers, is being hailed as a hero by some. But certainly not by the woman he (allegedly) raped prior
SF News Mixon's Cop Murders Push Back Mehserle Court Hearing Due to Saturday's "deadliest day" in Oakland Police history, disgraced BART cop Johannes Mehserle's preliminary hearing, which was scheduled for today, will be postponed. According to CBS 5, "attorneys Alison Berry Wilkinson and
SF News First Clayton Murder in 13 Years The quiet town of Clayton was shaken over the weekend after Raymond Casso, 73, was murdered at the town's post office. This was Clayton's first murder in over 13 years. According to ABC
SF News BART Update "Date: Jan 7, 2009 3:41 PM -- There is a station closure at Fruitvale Station in both directions due to civil protest." Oh dear. (Oh, and to get BART updates sent to
misc First Arrests In Oakland Takeover Robberies After weeks of relative guilt-free robberies in the East Bay, two people were apprehended last night after nail salon was shook down. Last night "two men wearing ski masks, at least one of
SF News Today's East Bay Restaurant Robbery: Yuet Foo Seafood Restaurant El Cerrito played host to the most recent restaurant takeover at around 9:45 p.m. last night. Two masked men entered Yuet Foo Seafood Restaurant and stole cash from employees and patrons
SF News Hayward Restaurant Hit Much to Mayor Dellums relief -- since this means he won't have to make yet another benign, angry-man speech -- a Hayward Chinese restaurant was targeted last night in the East Bay takeover
SF News SFist Blotter SUNDAY, MISSION: Over at 23rd and Treat streets, 18-year-old Jorge Hurtado was shot and killed at around 1 a.m. Hurtado, according to the Gate, was "approached by another young man, who briefly
SF News East Bay Restaurant Heists Continue at Scary, Steady Pace So far eight businesses in the East Bay have been held up by robbers in the past couple of weeks. Last night at around 9 p.m., two suspects hit Restaurant Furenzu on
misc Meet the Parents! Commenter Neil posted up his two cents on Bauer's blog and wrote up his detailed instructions on getting through the dreaded affair: It depends on whether the priority is going to dinner or
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight *CLUB: Check out Rock Out Karaoke over at Amnesia. What is Rock Out Karaoke? Well, it mean that you will hear neither a Righteous Brothers cover nor a note from everyone's least favorite
