SF News Emails Show Oakland Fire Officials Considered West Oakland Building A Known Fire Hazard With Oakland's second deadly fire in four months, new evidence shows that a fire captain called to have the building at 2551 San Pablo Avenue shut down for safety reasons as of January
SF News Candle Blamed For Deadly West Oakland Fire Though suspicions of arson were quickly raised this week following news of an unfolding showdown between the landlord and a nonprofit tenant, an initial investigation has concluded that an unattended candle was the
SF News 'Tech Bar And Lounge' Applies For Liquor License In Former Oakland SRO A former single-resident occupancy hotel in Oakland that's being renovated by an upstart San Francisco real estate company could sport a literally luxe first floor bar and lounge. According to an East Bay
SF News West Oakland Building That Burned Monday Was A Halfway House With A Troubled History A fourth victim has been confirmed in the deadly fire that burned down a three-story building on San Pablo Avenue in West Oakland on Monday, and as the investigation into the fire gets
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Healthy Fast-Food Chain Locol Opening West Oakland Bakery On Friday A post shared by LocoL (@welocol) on Mar 25, 2017 at 4:58pm PDT California chef celebs Daniel Patterson and Roy Choi are adding a new direction to their nascent fast-food chain Locol
SF News Arson Suspected In Deadly West Oakland Fire Where Landlord Was Trying To Evict Low-Income Tenants The four-alarm fire that broke out early Monday morning in a West Oakland building, killing at least three people and displacing over 80, may not have been accidental as a lawyer for a
SF News At Least One Feared Dead As Four-Alarm Fire Burns In Oakland #BREAKING: Fire burning in #Oakland on corner of Meade Ave and San Pablo Ave. Are you seeing this if you're in the East Bay? #abc7now pic.twitter.com/jMIul5LYd3— Natasha Zouves ABC7 (@NatashaABC7)
SF News Two-Year-Old Emails Prove That Ghost Ship Landlord Was Aware Of Electrical Issues The potential for a criminal case relating to the December 2 Ghost Ship fire in Oakland has just grown bigger as emails surface that show that the landlords knew of electrical problems at
Arts & Entertainment Inspired By Japan, Oakland Artist Installs 'Wind Telephone' For Mourners Of Ghost Ship Victims On the porch of a community arts space in Oakland stands a new phone booth built by local artist Jordan Stern. In it is an antique telephone that is not connected to anything,
SF News 25 Puppies Head To School At The Oakland Airport Puppies at OAK! pic.twitter.com/2SrunnnPKJ— Averi Harper (@AveriHarper) March 19, 2017 A group of dogs destined to help visually impaired people hit the Oakland Airport Sunday — but they weren't headed out
SF News Day Around The Bay: Following Ghost Ship Fire, Oakland Entered $90K PR Firm Contract Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. After the Ghost Ship fire that killed 36 people
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Tree Stump Becomes 'Giving Tree' Tribute They cut down a tree in my neighborhood 🌳❤ #thegivingtree #shelsilverstein #oakland #love #stump #childhood #lessons #stillimportant A post shared by Phoebe C. (@feebee510) on Mar 11, 2017 at 10:07am PST A felled
SF News BART Says Their Oakland Airport Connector Is Losing Money Because Of Uber, Lyft Setting aside the fact that BART probably spent way too much money to build the auto-piloted tramway connecting Coliseum Station and Oakland Airport, BART now says that the $500 million boondoggle isn't even
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Locol Revises Their Cheeseburger, Tweaks Menu Following Pete Wells Drama The biggest food story of the new year, arguably, has been New York Times critic Pete Wells's fairly bitchy review of Daniel Patterson and Roy Choi's new-style fast-food concept Locol. Many in the
SF News Medical Examiner Confirms All Ghost Ship Fire Victims Died Of Smoke Inhalation "All it takes is a few breaths," says UC Davis Professor Kent Pinkerton, speaking to the Chronicle after reviewing some of the autopsy materials in the Ghost Ship case, in which all 36
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Open In West Oakland: Old Kan Beer & Co. The brewpub project announced last month in the former Dock at Linden Street space, Old Kan Beer & Co., is now officially open as of today, and partners James Syhabout (Hawker Fare, Commis)
SF News Two Oakland Teens Charged In Beating Death Of 55-Year-Old Man In Park Two Oakland teenagers have been charged with murder in connection with the beating and stomping of 55-year-old Piliip Fai Low, who may have been sleeping in a West Oakland park and who was
SF News As New Oakland Police Chief Is Sworn In, Officers Are Ordered To Report All Unpermitted Parties After an order was given, rescinded, and then re-issued last week by Oakland's assistant police chief David Downing, Oakland Police officers are now being instructed to report all unpermitted events and gatherings that
Arts & Entertainment Documentary Shot At Oakland's Highland Hospital Up For Oscar A UC Berkeley journalism lecturer is up for an Oscar tonight in the documentary short category, and that's filmmaker Dan Krauss for his 24-minute film called "Extremis," about people facing end-of-life decisions, largely
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Shiba Ramen Debuts In Downtown Oakland Complete With Camino-Trained Chef A new ramen option comes to downtown Oakland this via Shiba Ramen, which has already staked its claim in the East Bay scene via a stall at the Emeryville Public Market. As Inside
SF News Oakland Shooter Killed In Police Standoff Had Terrorized Area With Gunfire 'For A Week' But Wasn't Arrested A 32-year-old East Oakland man who can be seen in ABC7 helicopter video footage stalking his neighborhood with a rifle and vandalizing a garage and a car had provided ample warning to police
SF News Oakland City Records Show Police And Firefighters Had Both Been In Ghost Ship Space; Fire Chief Goes On Leave The City of Oakland released a trove of documents Wednesday pertaining to the December 2 Ghost Ship fire, and as the Chronicle and others are reporting, they reveal what we already mostly knew:
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Wolf To Open Shortly In The Former Bay Wolf Space On Oakland's Piedmont Avenue It's been a year and a half since Oakland's Bay Wolf called it quits after 40 years on Piedmont Avenue, marking an end of an era for a beloved and influential East Bay
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink James Syhabout And Former Linden Street Brewer Announce Old Kan Beer & Co. In West Oakland Without much time to mourn the loss of the Oakland location of Hawker Fare, chef-restaurateur James Syhabout just announced the upcoming opening of a new brewery project with partner Adam Lamoreaux, the founder
SF News North Oakland's Bushrod Neighborhood Named Hottest Real Estate Market In The Nation A little-known subsection of Oakland called Bushrod, next to Temescal and on the Berkeley border west of Telegraph Avenue, was named by real estate site Redfin as the number one "hottest neighborhood of
