SF News Separate Tech Shuttle And Black Lives Matter Protests Planned For Oakland On May Day The Google bus blockades are not over! Separate protest events will be happening on Friday May 1 in two different parts of Oakland, in recognition of International Workers' Day, a.k.a. May
SF News What's Going On Here, Oakland Airport Passenger? A photo posted by TSA (@tsa) on Apr 20, 2015 at 6:27pm PDT I've made no secret of my love for the Transportation Security Administration's Instagram account in the past, as I
Arts & Entertainment Video: East Bay SPCA's 'Uptown Funk' Parody Will Bowl You Over With Cuteness While the well-funded San Francisco SPCA gets a lot of press, the East Bay SPCA's good works aren't always as prominently displayed. With an "annual live release rate" ("the percentage of animals that
SF News Day Around The Bay: Port-a-Potty Lands In Lake Merritt This portable toilet appears to have fallen, or was tossed, into the cleanly waters of Oakland's Lake Merritt over the weekend. [JesseBudlong/Twitter] Season of the Witch author David Talbot contemplated running against
Arts & Entertainment KPFA Radio Personality Killed In Oakland Hit-And-Run Wesley Burton, a regular host and DJ on Berkeley-based KPFA, was killed early Saturday morning in a violent hit-and-run collision in North Oakland. He was on his way home from a shift, hosting
SF News 25-Year-Old Injured In West Oakland Collision Awakens From Coma Maggie Lowrie kisses her son Greg Lowrie as he recovers at Highland http://t.co/0QfRF1PsY6 #oakland @daviddebolt pic.twitter.com/BRedthLFni— Jose Carlos Fajardo (@jcfphotog) March 21, 2015 Greg Lowrie, the 25-year-old
Arts & Entertainment How To Do The Fox Theater This is the first in a series of pieces in which SFist is going to school you at least those of you who don't already know how best to do certain important activities
SF News Local News Station Rats Out Fun Looking Oakland Neighborhood Speakeasy, Cops Bust It Some clever entrepreneurs working a bit outside the law have taken to launching their own social-media-promoted, black-market bars out of their houses and garages. But you'd best be careful if you try this
Arts & Entertainment Polyamorous East Bay Throuple Makes Video About Love Though the Bay Area is probably one of the country's hubs (outside Utah) for multi-partner, polyamorous relationships, you don't hear too much about throuples who actually get married. Enter the triad who call
Arts & Entertainment Aretha Franklin To Play Oracle Arena In August In her first Bay Area concert date in over 30 years, great diva Aretha Franklin has just booked a show for August 10 at Oakland's Oracle Arena. Goldenvoice just announced the show with
SF News [Update] Shooting On 580 In Oakland Shuts Down Two Eastbound Lanes, One Wounded Oakland: Shooting EB 580. 5 bullet holes in one car. Man wounded. 1 man in custody.#mapit pic.twitter.com/axXlejAEDQ— alan wang (@AlanWangABC7) March 5, 2015 A shooting this afternoon on eastbound
SF News Oakland Police Offer Reward In Shooting Death Of 14-Year-Old 14-year-old Davon Ellis was reportedly walking down the street with friends on Saturday evening in Oakland's Fruitvale district when he was fatally shot, and now Oakland police are offering a $20,000 reward
Arts & Entertainment Video: This American Cat A couple of cat-loving satirists decided to make this This American Life spoof over at Oakland's Cat Town Cafe, and it's kind of cute and kind of odd! As Eater tells us, the
Arts & Entertainment Time Travel In SF With Waterstrider's New Music Video Waterstrider, an Oakland-based five piece outfit, has just released one of the more intriguing music videos to be set in our part of the world. Take a disorienting trip with the band through
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hopscotch Expands With New Ramen Spot In Oakland The popular Uptown Oakland restaurant Hopscotch (1915 San Pablo Avenue), and its chef Kyle Itani, are getting a spinoff in the form of Itani Ramen (1738 Telegraph Avenue). As Inside Scoop reports, Itani
SF News Yet Another Local TV News Crew Robbed Of Their Equipment In The East Bay A female KTVU reporter and her cameraman were robbed of their equipment early Wednesday morning outside a doughnut shop in Hayward, marking the umpteenth time an incident like this has happened in the
SF News Oakland Rents Are The Second-Fastest Growing In America The price tag on those greener pastures east of San Francisco has been getting a serious markup. According to a report from local real estate site Trulia, rents in Oakland have increased 12.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Sideshow Becomes Music Video Check it! An apparently "secret" sideshow that took place on January 25th became the backdrop for this new music video. Credit for the footage goes to Ace at Fox Body Movement Car Club.
SF News Man And Woman Fatally Shot By Police Within Minutes Tuesday Two people, both reportedly armed, were shot and killed by Bay Area police officers in separate confrontations at nearly the same time Tuesday. In one case, a Contra Costa County Sheriff's deputy shot
SF News Rapper 'The Jacka' Shot Dead In East Oakland R.I.P. Bay Area legend @theJacka. http://t.co/WwBOwpNA7I pic.twitter.com/sHNwCa5eIo— The FADER (@thefader) February 3, 2015 37-year-old East Bay rapper Dominic Newton, more commonly known as "The Jacka,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rapper E-40 Debuts SLURICANE, The Most Hyphy Bottled Cocktail Ever Look out, Fernet, because the Bay Area could have a new favorite drink. Bevmo's blog has word that E-40's SLURICANE Hurricane is on sale now. It's a pre-mixed rum cocktail drink made by
SF News Oakland Federal Building Blocked By Chained Protesters Downtown Oakland's Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building was blocked this morning by a group over a dozen protestors who chained themselves together. The protest began as in San Francisco BART protests resulted in
SF News Another Sideshow Shut Down I-880 In Oakland On Sunday Oakland's grand tradition of sideshows continued Sunday with another freeway-closing doughnut rally that stopped traffic on I-880 for an indeterminate amount of time. As KRON4 reports, the driver of red Mustang you see
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Zoo Animals Love Your Discarded Xmas Trees The animals of the Oakland Zoo were a little late in the holiday celebration but they frolicked among Christmas trees yesterday. Of course, these were the discarded trees you didn't want anymore. Otters,
SF News BART Wants $70,000 In Restitution From Black Friday Protestors Protestors who chained themselves to BART trains on Black Friday are now facing a hefty fee from the transit agency in addition to criminal charges. One of the organizers of the protest is
