SF News Day Around The Bay: Dead Whale Found Near Port Of Oakland Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. A man shot on Monday a block away from
SF News SF And Oakland Hold Community Forums On Warehouse And Live-Work Spaces The landlord of an arts space brought together tenants and city officials to discuss fire safety Tuesday night https://t.co/XqrPx9uiiT pic.twitter.com/KWOWrNe2qp— Mission Local (@MLNow) January 4, 2017 On
SF News Oakland Hires Its First Female Police Chief, Anne Kirkpatrick Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf has hired the city's first female chief of police, as multiple news sources are reporting this morning, and that is Anne Kirkpatrick, a former chief of Spokane's police department
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New York Times Critic Pete Wells Savages Locol In Oakland New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells has given us another surprise Bay Area review in his intermittent mission to survey the national food scene, and it's a review of Daniel Patterson and
Arts & Entertainment Video: Heartbreaking Tribute To The 36 Artists Who Perished In Ghost Ship Fire As friends, family, and the community at large continue to mourn those who perished in the December 2 Ghost Ship fire, KQED Arts has released a video honoring the dead. The video consists
Arts & Entertainment Scenes From The 'Oakland United' Ghost Ship Benefit Concert Featuring Hieroglyphics, Tune-Yards, Primus, And More Fans joined hands, heard from victims' loved ones, and swayed to emotionally resonant music at the Fox Theater last night in a powerful fundraiser concert presented by Another Planet Entertainment and Noise Pop
Arts & Entertainment Southwest Pilot Congratulates Flight Full Of Raiders Fans For Drinking All The Plane's Liquor Passengers on a Southwest Airlines flight from Oakland to Kansas City last week, the day of a football game between the Raiders and the Chiefs, managed a rare and thirsty feat of cleaning
SF News SF Is 'Spot-Checking' 10 Warehouses That Could Be Illegal Residences While Oakland Is Avoiding Such 'Witch Hunts' In the aftermath of the deadly Ghost Ship fire in East Oakland 12 days ago, it was assumed by many that other similar warehouses that had been converted into illegal live-work spaces or
Arts & Entertainment Solange Joins Fantastic Negrito For Google-Sponsored Benefit Concert In Oakland On Friday Solange Knowles, sister to Queen Bey and royalty in her own right, will perform a trio of songs from her masterful album A Seat At The Table at an intimate performance in Oakland
SF News [Update] Overloaded Electrical Lines Named As Cause Of Ghost Ship Fire The East Bay Times, which has been doing a bang-up job staying on top of the Oakland fire story and its many narrative branches, has just reported the breaking news that, according to
SF News Ghost Ship Survivors Tell Stories Of Being 'Chased' By Fire, Leaving Friends Behind While we've spent much of the last week following the fire investigation and profiling the 36 dead in Oakland's Ghost Ship fire, there have been notably few first-person accounts to trickle out from
Arts & Entertainment Video: Patti Smith Dedicates Performance To Oakland Fire Victims At an event last week in New York celebrating the 20th birthday of Democracy Now!, Patti Smith sang a stirring rendition of "Peaceable Kingdom," a song that she wrote with Tony Shanahan to
SF News Journalists Try, But Fail To Track Down Ghost Ship Landlord Chor Ng Journalists working for both the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle have spent the last few days with boots on the ground in Oakland, using property records to survey the various
SF News Friends And Former Friends Paint Conflicting Pictures Of Ghost Ship Founders Derick Almena And Micah Allison In the seven days since the tragic inferno at Oakland artist enclave called Ghost Ship, some of the expected finger-pointing has been aimed at the city and its inspections apparatus, and some has
SF News Profiles Of The Final Nine Ghost Ship Fire Victims SFist is continuing to offer brief remembrances and obituaries as they're being collected from various news sources and friends. Here was the first group of eight, the second group of six, another seven,
SF News Anti-Trump Demonstrations Planned In SF And Oakland Saturday And Monday Several local demonstrations are planned this weekend and Monday in a show of resistance against President-Elect Donald Trump, and in support of any faithless (or "moral", as they've been recast) electors who would
SF News Child Protective Services Allegedly Inside Ghost Ship Days Before Fire The story of the tragic Ghost Ship fire has become one of warnings both missed and ignored. Former friends of master tenant Derick Ion Almena say they told him that his space was
SF News Confusion Over Oakland Warehouse Address And Complaints Blamed For Lack Of Inspection Despite a litany of complaints related to the Oakland warehouse known as the Ghost Ship that erupted in flames last Friday, killing 36 people, none of those complaints appears to have resulted in
SF News Officials Confirm Ghost Ship Fire Started On First Floor, No Evidence Of Arson As the investigation moves forward into the cause of the deadly Ghost Ship fire last Friday which has been deemed the deadliest structure fire in the US since the 2003 Station nightclub fire
SF News Proprietors Of Downtown Oakland Venue Salt Lick Strike Back At 'Witch Hunt' Seeking To Shut Them Down In the wake of Friday's deadly warehouse fire in Oakland, cities across the country are on high alert hoping to avoid any similar tragedies occurring in illegal or unsafe living spaces or venues
SF News Profiles Of Seven More Creative Souls Lost In Oakland's Ghost Ship Fire As the names of the missing officially become the names of the dead, SFist is continuing to offer brief remembrances and obituaries as they're being collected from various news sources and friends. Here
SF News Newly Released Records Show Oakland Officials Told Prior To Fire That Ghost Ship Warehouse Was Converted To Housing As the names of the confirmed dead continue to be released in what feels like an agonizing trickle, newly released records show that the city of Oakland was told multiple times that the
SF News Key Difference Between SF And Oakland Tenant Laws Keeps People In Illegal Units From Reporting Safety Issues In San Francisco, tenants in illegal units can call the Department of Building Inspection to report safety violations, allowing inspectors to enter their units while providing these tenants the peace of mind that
SF News Video Emerges From Inside Ghost Ship One Hour Before Fire The death toll in Friday's warehouse fire in Oakland stands at 36 with 100 percent of the premises now searched, as KRON 4 reports, and a local state of emergency has been declared
SF News Six More Profiles Of Those Lost In Oakland's 'Ghost Ship' Fire As the names of the missing officially become the names of the dead, SFist is continuing to offer brief remembrances and obituaries as they're being collected from various news sources and friends. Here
