Arts & Entertainment Oakland First Fridays Returns After Three Rained-Out Months The first First Fridays event since January goes down tonight in Oakland's KONO neighborhood, and it's sure to draw a crowd.
SF News MacArthur Maze Overhaul Now Off the Table as Oakland Gives Caltrans an Earful Oakland and Emeryville have put the kibbosh on a three-year, $180 million rebuild of the MacArthur Maze, at least for now.
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Oakland Skater Turns Electric Board Into Miniature Bus One creative and industrious skateboarder in Oakland was spotted Monday tooling around in traffic aboard his own, personal, remote-controlled, vintage school bus.
SF News Three-Alarm Fire Guts Warehouse In East Oakland A fire that began on the street in East Oakland around 8:15 a.m. Monday grew to three alarms and spread to the American Emperor construction supply warehouse, sending up a huge plume of smoke over the city.
SF News Yet Another High-Rise Proposed For Downtown Oakland An Oakland developer has just submitted plans for a new 22-story highrise at Harrison and 14th Street that would combine 127 residential units and office space on the lower floors.
SF News Four People Shot At Oakland Sports Bar Four people were shot and wounded Saturday night at the Halftime Sports Bar in downtown Oakland. One suspect has been apprehended.
SF News Longshoremen In Oakland Sue Port Companies Over Alleged Racist Incidents Four longshoremen in Oakland are taking their accusations of racism to court, reports CBS. They're alleging that the Pacific Maritime Association and SSA Marine are doing nothing to address numerous alleged instances of
SF News New 'Zig Zagging' Tower Proposed For Oakland Chinatown Would Be City's Tallest Tower Oakland's skyline could soon be changing as developers have filed a proposal for a unique new building that would tower over businesses and residences in Oakland's Chinatown. According to a report from the
SF News Bartender At Popular Oakland Restaurant Allegedly Beats Homeless Man To Death With Bat A bartender an an upscale Oakland restaurant is behind bars today, after witnesses say they watched him beat a homeless man to death outside his place of business. The alleged homicide happened outside
SF News In Random Attack, Man Allegedly Stabs Girl In Face As She Walks To School A 14-year-old girl was rushed to the hospital Tuesday, after a man stabbed her in the face as she walked to school. The East Bay Times reports that the attack occurred at 8:
SF News Three People In Uber Car Injured In Shooting On I-880 In Oakland An Uber driver and two passengers were hospitalized with injuries early Sunday following what authorities are calling a "targeted" shooting on the I-880 freeway in Oakland. As the East Bay Times reports, the
SF News Charges Dismissed For All But One East Bay Officer Connected To Sexual Exploitation Of Celeste Guap In the latest update in the sexual misconduct and exploitation case that roiled the Oakland Police Department and affected several other law enforcement departments over the last year and a half, an Alameda
SF News Oakland City Council Debates Declaring Another Homeless Shelter Crisis Following news that San Francisco is working to implement a new plan to help combat homelessness, Oakland is now debating whether to declare their own shelter crisis. Oakland North reports that the city
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland To Get New All-Day Deli-Bakery Thing Inspired By Venice Beach's Gjusta, Via Charlie Hallowell One of Oakland's most successful chef-restaurateurs, Charlie Hallowell (Pizzaiolo, Boot & Shoe Service, Penrose) is taking over the former Grand Fare space, which is in the same Grand Avenue building that he co-owns
SF News Person Dies In Oakland Police Custody Following Taser Incident A person died while in police custody, Oakland Police have announced, saying that the loss of life happened following the use of a Taser. If that sounds confoundingly vague, you're not wrong: Oakland
SF News Ghost Ship Suspects Plead Not Guilty To 36 Charges Of Involuntary Manslaughter The case against de facto Ghost Ship leaders Max Harris and Derick Almena moved forward on Wednesday as the two defendants each pleaded not guilty to 36 charges of involuntary manslaughter in Alameda
SF News Two More Handguns Stolen Out Of Police Officer's Car In Oakland Two more police officers have had their guns stolen out of their car, and the rest of us are left to wonder if this just happens every week now. The police officers from
SF News Brush Fire In Oakland Hills Prompts Evacuation Grass fire in #Oakland hills threatening homes. Headed to scene. Live coverage here 👇🏼 #abc7now https://t.co/2XVoWz8p0f— Katie Utehs (@KatieUtehs) September 26, 2017 On this very hot day, residents of one section
SF News Rookie A's Catcher Bruce Maxwell Becomes First MLB Player To Take A Knee For National Anthem From the @sfchronicle’s Santiago Mejia, here is A’s rookie Bruce Maxwell becoming the first MLB player to take a knee for the anthem: pic.twitter.com/q8QVY9hW15— Susan Slusser (@susanslusser) September
SF News Oakland Synagogue Vandalized With Anti-Semitic Graffiti Just after the celebration of Rosh Hashanah Wednesday night, a Jewish synagogue in Oakland was vandalized early Thursday morning with anti-Semitic graffiti. As KRON 4 reports, the rabbi at Temple Sinai found the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Well Loved Juhu Beach Club Set To Close In Oakland, Reopen Later, Somewhere Chef Preeti Mistry's five-year-old Temescal spot Juhu Beach Club will be sunsetting at its current strip-mall location in the near-ish future, as Mistry has just announced. A number of recent developments including her
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Oakland Pride, Feat. Alex Newell and Andra Day It's time again for the Bay Area's much smaller, much more recently inaugurated LGBTQ Pride celebration, Oakland Pride. On Sunday, for only the eighth time ever, Oakland celebrates its LGBTQ people with a
SF News Oakland Gone Wild: DUI, Child Porn Charges For Police And Fire Department Officers Wednesday was a hell of a day for the Oakland Police and Fire Departments, as today we have separate reports of disturbing DUI and child pornography charges for officers from both organizations. While
SF News Oakland, San Jose Both Want To Be In The Running For New Amazon HQ Cities across the country are hoping to win the local economic lottery windfall that will come from a new 50,000-person Amazon headquarters after the rapidly growing company announced Thursday that it intends
Arts & Entertainment New Oakland-Based Web Comedy 'The North Pole' Drops Next Week The low-budget web series genre has spawned enduring and memorable TV comedies like Portlandia, Broad City, and Insecure, but the next great web series may be sprouting up locally in Oaktown. A new
