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New Oakland Police Chief Is Sworn In, Officers Are Ordered To Report All Unpermitted Parties After an order was given, rescinded, and then re-issued last week by Oakland's assistant police chief David Downing, Oakland Police officers are now being instructed to report all unpermitted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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink At Least 60 Bay Area Restaurants Have Closed Since September It's been a rough, rough year for restaurateurs around the country and the local region, and as January draws to a close we have a somewhat shocking estimated tally of how many Bay
SF News Attorneys For Ghost Ship Proprietor Now Arguing That Fire Started Next Door The trial-by-media for Ghost Ship proprietor Derick Almena predictably continues, now seven weeks since the deadly blaze tore through the live-work warehouse he designed and managed and took the lives of 36 people.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hawker Fare Closing Its Original Oakland Location After almost six years in business near Oakland's Uptown district, Hawker Fare is closing up shop in a few short weeks, on February 18. Owner James Syhabout, whose Laotian mother has been in
SF News Photos: Oakland Women's March Drew At Least 100,000 Twin Bay Area "sister marches" on Saturday, in solidarity with the massive Women's March on Washington in protest of Donald Trump's inauguration, look to have been about equal in size in both San
SF News About 2,000 Marched Up Market Street Friday To Protest The Inauguration In advance of the Women's March in San Francisco on Saturday, which is expected to be the largest of the weekend's anti-Trump demonstrations, about 2,000 people rallied at Civic Center Friday evening
Arts & Entertainment Raiders File Paperwork With NFL To Move To Las Vegas The Oakland Raiders could become the Las Vegas Raiders in the not too distant future if the NFL agrees to let them move, and the team has just officially filed the paperwork seeking
SF News Uncle Of Orlando Shooter's Widow: 'I Know She's Innocent, I Raised Her' Noor Salman, the widow of Pulse nightclub mass-murderer Omar Mateen, appeared briefly in federal court in Oakland Tuesday morning facing charges that could potentially send her to prison for life. As the Chronicle
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 Update: Downed Power Line Shuts Down I-880 In Oakland Causes Major Afternoon Traffic Snarl The winds are picking up and we're just getting word via CBS 5 that a downed power line has shut down the I-880 freeway in both directions as of 12:30 p.m.
