Arts & Entertainment Seven Easy Date-Night Ideas Around SF, Oakland, And Berkeley Last year, SFist brought you a list of nine easy ideas for nights out on the town, with a friend or a date, organized by neighborhood so you don't have to be ordering
SF News It's Tax Season, And Some Jerk Just Stole A Full Mail Truck Stealing mail, in addition to being a federal offense, is just a plain old dick move. Stealing an entire mail truck, full of mail, the week before taxes are due, is so seriously
SF News Key Witness Takes Stand In Trial Of Man Accused In 2013 Killing Of 8-Year-Old Girl In Oakland A major murder trial is ongoing in Alameda County in the case of Darnell Williams Jr., 25, who stands accused of the fatal shooting of eight-year-old Alaysha Carradine in East Oakland in 2013
SF News Oakland City Council Approves 90-Day Pause On Rent Hikes In a move that sounds even more progressive and renter-friendly than San Francisco's Board of Supervisors, Oakland's City Council last night approved a 90-day moratorium on all rent hikes citywide. The vote came
SF News Thankfully It's Not The O.Co Coliseum Anymore; Naming Rights Up For Grabs Have a cool few million floating around and interested in seeing your name printed in really big letters on the side of something large? Well, here's your chance: Overstock.com exited its naming-rights
SF News East Bay's Claremont Hotel Proposes Condos On Landmark Site In news that developers hope will make wealthy, aging Boomers with Berkeley aspirations positively salivate, the Claremont Club & Spa, a historic hotel in the East Bay hills that straddles Berkeley and Oakland,
SF News Zebras Break Free From Circus For Brief Taste Of Freedom A couple of zebras, who were set to perform at O.co Coliseum over the weekend, managed to escape from UniverSoul Circus on Friday. The two presumably terrified creatures were spotted running north
SF News Violent Crime On The Decline In Oakland As Murder Rate Drops The year is off to a slow start in Oakland, and in this case that's a very good thing. The city is experiencing a drop in violent crimes the likes of which it
SF News Airline Marketing Oakland As 'The Wild Side Of San Francisco' Angers Residents It's well established that Oakland is San Francisco's Brooklyn, right? Well, maybe not according to international Australian airline Qantas, which is excitedly marketing the other city by the Bay to its many customers
SF News Tattooed Rescuer Places Oxygen Mask On Dog Saved From Oakland Fire FFs treated a dog found inside the mobile home fire on High st. last night. pic.twitter.com/GWrgpBFiMM— Oakland Firefighters (@OaklandFireLive) March 1, 2016 When a mobile home fire broke out in
SF News Family Sues Oakland Police Claiming Drunken Officer Tried To Break Into Their Home An Oakland family is suing the Oakland Police Department after a bizarre December incident allegedly involving two intoxicated OPD officers. The district attorney has yet to decide whether or not to file charges
Arts & Entertainment Prince Announces Surprise Shows At Oakland's Paramount Theater Sunday As he's done a bunch of times in recent years, Prince announced late Tuesday that he'd be doing some surprise concerts on very short notice this time the kickoff to a solo piano
SF News As Chicago Plan Stalls, Oakland Hints At Second Bid For Lucas Museum For several years now, filmmaker and extremely rich person George Lucas has been working to create a massive museum dedicated to showcasing his collection of movie memorabilia, illustrations, and graphic art. After his
SF News Guilty-Feeling Thief Returns Dog Abducted From East Bay SPCA Hooray! Daisymae, the dog who was snatched Sunday from a volunteer as she walked outside the East Bay SPCA, has been returned! Y'all dog lovers remember this one: Two-year-old black and white pit
SF News East Bay SPCA Seeks Public Help After Daisymae The Dog Snatched From Volunteer The East Bay Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is hoping the public will help them track down a dog named Daisymae, after she was stolen from a volunteer at their
Arts & Entertainment Look At This Ridiculous $50 'Super Bowl Sundae' From Fentons If all this talk about Super Bowl Sunday has you craving a different kind of sundae Fentons Creamery in Oakland has got you covered, and then some. They're offering a special 'Super Bowl
SF News Hide Your Pets: Fighter Jets To Buzz Bay Area In Anticipation Of Super Bowl We've heard probably too much about street level security for the upcoming Super Bowl and Super Bowl City, but what about threats from above. Don't you worry, the government has thought it all
SF News Graphic Video Shows Handcuffed Oakland Man Saying 'I Can't Breathe' Prior To His Death In 2013 In a disturbing police body-cam video obtained by the Contra Costa Times this week, we witness the final moments of the life of 51-year-old Hernan Jaramillo play out in what has become a
SF News Gun-Wielding Man Kidnaps Cabbie Near Embarcadero Center A San Francisco taxi driver had his Monday night take a pretty crazy turn, after a fare pulled a gun on him and commandeered the cab. It was 9:20 p.m. Monday
SF News App Promises Faster Oakland 911 Service, For A Price According to the FCC, 70 percent of 911 calls are now placed from wireless phones. Understandably, that percentage is only growing. But whereas landlines can provide emergency services dispatchers with quick location details,
SF News Late-Night Crash Leaves One Dead, Splits Car In Half Police will be looking at surveillance vids from businesses along MacArthur Blvd. to find accident cause @kron4news pic.twitter.com/c4UNfUivGl— Averi Harper (@AveriHarper) January 21, 2016 How fast does a car have
SF News One Of The Last Remaining People Born In The 19th Century Just Died In Oakland (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=
SF News Body Found During MLK Day Cleanup Along Oakland Shoreline A "moderately decomposed" corpse was discovered Monday by a cleanup volunteer who was taking part in the eight annual Day of Service on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The discovery occurred along the
SF News Walmart Abruptly Shutters Oakland Store, Likely Over Minimum Wage The by-all-accounts busy Walmart location on Edgewater Drive in Oakland, near the Oakland Airport, will shut its doors Sunday evening along with a location in San Jose, and Oakland officials are sounding the
SF News BART Shooting Victim ID'd As Police Release More Suspect Photos BART Police this afternoon released the name of the previously unidentified victim in Saturday's shooting aboard a train car as it approached the West Oakland BART station. At the same time, BART officials
