Arts & Entertainment Sorry Stoners, Oakland's Weed Scavenger Hunt Has Been Canceled [Updated] Update: After authorities stepped in, Saturday’s weed scavenger hunt in Oakland has been canceled. Organizers Bay Area Quest Hunt stated on its website that it was contacted by the City of Oakland/
SF News Oakland A's Staying In Oakland For Another Ten Years [Updated] After some last-minute negotiations and a threatening email late last night from Lew Wolff, it looks like the City of Oakland has caved and the A's are now definitively staying in Oakland through
SF News Men In Stolen BMW Die In Fiery Off-Ramp Crash During Police Pursuit Two men were killed in a fiery crash in San Francisco this morning, following a high-speed chase across the Bay Bridge in a stolen BMW. The crash, and the subsequent investigation, will leave
SF News Oakland Home Sales Prices Growing Far Faster Than San Francisco's While the median home sales price for the city of Oakland is far lower than many of its neighboring areas, it might not be that way for long: an analysis of MLS data
SF News 22-Year-Old Shot In Oakland Marks City's 40th Homicide; S.F. at 11 Oakland's homicide rate is creeping up for 2014 but remains lower, and slower to grow, than at this time last year. Four separate shooting incidents yesterday resulted in four injured men, one of
SF News Two Toddlers Hit By Bullets In Separate Shootings In Oakland Marking two more in a series of disturbing incidents involving innocent kids in the East Bay, a two-year-old and a three-year-old were wounded by gunfire in separate incidents on Monday in Oakland. The
SF News Oakland Mayor Jean Quan Involved In Car Accident; It's Unclear If She Was Texting Coincidentally and unfortunately, in the same week in which she was publicly shamed for texting while driving by Stanley Roberts, Oakland mayor Jean Quan had a car accident on Sunday. Early reports suggest
SF News Oakland Mayor Jean Quan Can't Stop Using Her Phone While Driving Despite a public shaming on KRON4, Oakland Mayor and Brooklyn fan Jean Quan apparently can't put down her pink iPhone long enough to make it through the week. When it comes to using
SF News Oakland Mayor Jean Quan Busted Texting While Driving, Shamed By Stanley Roberts [Update] Oakland Mayor and vending machine mourner Jean Quan was caught using her smartphone while driving on Friday night. As we've seen before, the punishment for breaking California's distracted driving law is to be
SF News Oakland Student In Wheelchair Smacked By Security Guard Was Known Troublemaker Despite having cerebral palsy and being confined to a wheelchair, 17-year-old Oakland high school freshman Francisco Martinez was known to fellow students as a troublemaker, and a number of them have come out
SF News Oakland Elementary School Mom Allegedly Attacked 9-Year-Old With A Hammer The mother of a second grader at Lafayette Elementary School in Oakland is accused of attacking a 9-year-old girl with a hammer in a school restroom. The crime was reported as a sexual
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Tour To the Top of Oakland's Tribune Tower One of Northern California's most glorious buildings is the Tribune Tower in Oakland, which has been through many hands in the past century and is now undergoing a slow-but-swanky renovation. As part of
SF News Video: Oakland School Security Officer Beats The Hell Out Of Student In Wheelchair Oakland High School released disturbing video capturing the moments where a freshman with cerebral palsy, handcuffed to a wheelchair, was brutally beaten by a security guard. This student's offense? Moving too slowly to
Arts & Entertainment Casting Call: Real Redheads Wanted For Oakland Video Shoot As a natural redhead, one who has reaped both the benefits and the woes of being a prized/loathed ginger, it is my duty to inform my rouge-topped kin that our presence is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland In-N-Out Allegedly Refuses To Call 911 For Injured Patron Though the UC Berkeley community was thrown into a spiral of despair after a hopes of an In-N-Out Burger's new location near campus were dashed, there's one recent grad who's probably happy that
Arts & Entertainment Let's All Enjoy Josh Reddick's Sultry New Walk-Up Music: 'Careless Whisper' Your browser does not support iframes. It may be hot outside today, but inside it's getting even hotter after catching a ripe whiff of Josh Reddick's sexy new walk-up music: "Careless Whisper" by
SF News Father Of Toddler Who Disappeared From Oakland Parking Lot Commits Suicide Nearly a year after the high-profile disappearance of his young daughter, the father of the still-missing toddler has taken his own life, family members say. John Anthony Webb, 50 (pictured above left), had
SF News BART Connector To The Oakland Airport, By The Numbers 3.2: The number of miles BART's Oakland Airport Connector, an elevated transit line that will run from the Coliseum/Oakland Airport BART Station to the Oakland Airport, will travel 4: The number
SF News Map Says There Are Hardly Any A's Fans In The Bay Area, Even In Oakland Although you see many A's caps around town and can't help but notice their green-and-yellow costumery while riding BART, this map says there are basically no A's fans in the Bay Area, not
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Grilled Squid With Green Strawberries at Plum Fans of chef Kim Alter's food at Haven in Jack London Square were sad to learn that she was no longer in the kitchen there as of last fall. But owner Daniel Patterson
SF News Oakland Man Charged In Rape, Murder Of Young Mother Prince F. Tsetse, 40, was charged with murder this week after allegedly beating to death Kimberly Robertson, 23, during a sexual assault inside his SUV. Robertson's body was discovered earlier this month at
SF News 28th Oakland Homicide Means Rate On Track With Last Year A Monday night homicide in Oakland, near the San Leandro border, marks the 28th in the city so far this year, putting it almost exactly on par with last year which saw the
SF News The A's Probably Stuck In Oakland For Good Over the past five years there's been a lot of grumbling over at the Oakland Coliseum and rumblings from the owners of the Oakland A's that they were going to high-tail it to
SF News Refrigerator Full Of Weed Blazes In Oakland A blazing refrigerator full of weed sent area firefighters to an East Oakland warehouse this morning, but so far, the owner of the pot and the cause of the fire remain a mystery.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This: Meet Chronicle Wine Scribe Jon Bonné Wednesday At Camino Longtime Chronicle wine columnist Jon Bonné has a new coffeetable book called The New California Wine, in which he profiles the latest generation of growers and winemakers who have drawn new sophistication and
