SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland's Elbo Room Was Slated to Close Permanently, But Has Found New Buyers at the Last Minute Just seven days before it was set to host its final show, the Elbo Room Jack London has announced new buyers. The club will still have its final show Friday night, but is scheduled to reopen under the new owners in June.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Hip Hop Festival Hiero Day Returns for 10th Annual Celebration Monday, But Really All Weekend Multi-platinum Oakland native Keyshia Cole headlines Monday’s 10th annual Hiero Day, with Mistah F.A.B. and of course Hieroglyphics in the mix too, but this year the festival has events all Labor Day weekend long.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's Cellarmaker Brewing to Take Over Former Blue Bottle Warehouse In Oakland for New Pizza and Beer Spot The San Francisco craft beer stars behind Cellarmaker Brewing Co., who three years ago surprised us with a shockingly good pizzeria to go with their always good and often hoppy beers, are now expanding to Oakland.
SF News Somebody Set the Christmas Tree In Oakland's Jack London Square on Fire The Christmas tree in Jack London Square was torched early Monday, but may have been saved from being a total loss — though it's not clear if it will be able to be restrung with lights and used for a tree-lighting ceremony on Saturday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Much-Delayed Jack London Square Food Hall Project Thwarted Again As Star Chefs Back Out The hotly anticipated Oakland Assembly food hall at Jack London Square was delayed by the pandemic but now it sounds like they will have to start the tenant hunt all over again.
SF Politics Biden Pops by Oakland Diner, Greeted by Protesters, Sex Toy Shop Owner Biden’s Super Tuesday swing through Oakland featured “Sully” Sullenberger, an encounter with a sex toy purveyor, and a few protesting Democratic Socialists.
Bay Area Sports Oakland Backs Off A’s Stadium Lawsuit, Jack London Ballpark Plan Back On Track The umpteenth attempt to build a new Oakland A’s ballpark has revolved its latest setback, and the team will not threaten to move to Las Vegas again for at least another six months.
SF News Two-Alarm Fire Near Jack London Square Contained Quickly, No Injuries Reported Friday night saw a two-alarm fire engulf the Portobello Condominium complex near Oakland’s Jack London Square, forcing all of its residents to promptly evacuate.
Arts & Entertainment The Latest In Instagram Traps: A 90s-Themed Museum Opens In Oakland "Boo-ya!" says the release for 90's Experience, the latest multi-room, interactive "experience" to hit the Bay Area, this one in Oakland's Jack London Square. What do you say, dear readers?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tartine And Belcampo Meat Co. Both Opening Locations In Oakland's Jack London Square The long stagnant and/or transitioning food scene around Oakland's Jack London Square where a the 434,000-square-foot waterfront development was built almost a decade ago with a vision of Ferry Building grandeur
SF News Two Tower Of Power Bandmates Hit By Oakland Amtrak Train On Way To Yoshi's Appearance Two musicians of the Oakland R&B group Tower of Power are recovering in the hospital after being struck by an Amtrak train in Jack London Square last night. According to the
SF News An Update On Possible New Oakland A's Stadium, In Oakland Since the Oakland A's first announced in 2009 that they might consider a move south, to San Jose, Oakland has been desperately trying to hold on to the team. Now there's some movement
SF News Oakland Amtrak Crash Injures at Least 16 At around 10 p.m. on Wednesday, an Amtrak train traveling 15 to 20 mph collided with another train unloading passengers in Jack London Square at Webster Street and Embarcadero. At least 18
SF News 2 Dead, 5 Wounded After Oakland Nightclub Shootings Two people were killed and four wounded early Monday morning outside Sweet Jimmie's near Jack London Square. The deadly shootings, it seems, were sparked by the bouncer refusing to admit several patrons. "Several
SF News Man in Wheelchair Hit, Trapped Underneath Train in Oakland A man in a wheelchair was hit by a cargo train rolling through Jack London Square in Oakland early this morning and subsequently trapped underneath the "cow-catcher" on the front of the train.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Food Blog Round Up I Food U Food gets all meaty and even gives us the DL on what exactly Moishe's Pippic really means. Well now isn't that special? Feeding my Enthusiasms takes us on a visually
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink East Bay Eats: The Seaman’s Soup Kitchen Okay, it's really NOT a soup kitchen, but if you have a boat docked in Oakland’s Embarcadero Cove Marina (down the highway from Jack London Square and across from Alameda's Coast Guard
Arts & Entertainment Arthead Group Exhibition at Swarm Gallery (from left to right) John Casey, Gregory Euclide, Micah Lebrun (details of works) Since August 2006, artist Nicole Wintermeyer's blog Arthead SF has been providing a forum for artists throughout the Bay Area
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Branford Marsalis SFist recently sat down with Marsalis for our first-ever email interview. Q. First off, did you have anything to do with the fact that the top view of the "Braggtgown" CD looks like
SF News What We Would Have Told You About Today ...had the server not been down. (Things look a little better now after hours, but expect further delays tomorrow). Update: Hey! Comments are back! Try 'em so we can see if they're still
SF News Your Commute: A New Bart Stop Add 15 cents more to your BART card -- Bernal Heights, Baja Noe Valley (what a name), and Upper Mission neighborhood advocates are trying to get BART to revive its 2002 plan to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Cucumbers We found cucumbers by the armful at this weekend's Jack London Square farmer's market. Pickling cucumbers, Japanese cucumbers, standard American cucumbers. The abundance flaunted itself, and challenged us to take some into the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Radishes We confess that we, too, used to use spring radishes for garnish rather than flavor, though they have the same bite we like in their close relatives the turnips. At best, we've put
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chicken and Waffles Make Triumphant Return to Oaktown Soul food options just haven't been the same since Roscoe's Chicken & Waffles closed up shop in Oakland a couple of years ago. The bay area offshoot of the L.A. institution was
