SF News Black Man Asks Woman For Phone Number In Oakland, She Posts Flyer About It And Calls Cops Gentrification 3.0 in the city of Oakland..Weak 'game' will get flyers posted and the police looking for u pic.twitter.com/WzgktEnFqt— Davey D (@mrdaveyd) October 19, 2015 What's going on
SF News Billy Beane's Water Use Was 24 Times That Of His Neighbors This Year The Executive Vice President of the Oakland Athletics, Billy Beane, is a rich man. And, as is often the case with rich men, Beane appears to be used to getting what he wants.
SF News Oakland Gospel Choir Threatened With Nuisance Fee, Daily Fines For Singing Too Loud “The music of the church reveals the life of the church, the enthusiasm of the church,” Michael Wright, an Oakland pastor, tells CBS SF. But that's not how it's seen, or heard, by
SF News Oakland Startup Will Cancel Comcast For You, Saving 'Hours Of Beautiful Human Life' Cheekily choosing a very common enemy, one Oakland startup is gaining tons of press and good will — and fast. How fast? 5 minutes flat — or, rather, that's how long AirPaper says it can
SF News Three Years On, Accused Oikos University Shooter One Goh May Finally Face Trial It's been three and a half years since the tragic mass shooting at Oakland's Oikos University that took the lives of seven people in April, 2012. During most that time, accused mass murderer
SF News Here's The Person Of Interest In The Oakland Muralist Slaying Oakland Police have identified a person of interest in last week's slaying of 27-year-old artist Antonio Ramos at least they have a photo of him from surveillance video anyway. The slender, twentysomething black
SF News Man Shot And Killed Driving His Ice Cream Truck In Oakland On Saturday, just four days after 27-year-old Antonio Ramos was shot and killed while painting a community empowerment and anti-violence mural in West Oakland, a locally known ice cream truck proprietor was also
SF News Local Artist Shot And Killed While Working On Anti-Violence Mural In West Oakland 27-year-old Antonio Ramos was painting a community mural under an Interstate 580 overpass in West Oakland on Tuesday when he was shot at around 10:30 a.m., according to Police reports. Spokesperson
Arts & Entertainment [NSFW] A Bawdy, Seductive, Mostly Naked Grace Jones Thrills Fans At Fox Theater Show Saturday night the great Grace Jones played a rare show to one lucky audience at the Fox Theater in Oakland before heading to L.A. to do another show at the Hollywood Bowl
SF News Uber Steal: Oakland Offices Were Total Bargain Lane Partners - Uptown Station from steelblue on Vimeo. Surge pricing was seemingly not applied to Uber's purchase of the 380,000-square-foot Oakland Sears Building — or, as it's been rebranded following a $40
SF News Will Uber Be Oakland's Savior, Or Just Become Occupy's Next Target? Reactions have been across the map to yesterday's big news that Uber had snagged the huge former Sears building in downtown Oakland for what will be a new East Bay sister-headquarters come 2017.
SF News Uber Plops Down In Oakland, Buys Huge Former Sears Building Uber has just announced that it's buying a huge amount of office space 350,000 square feet purchasing the former Sears building on Broadway in downtown Oakland. When rumors of the deal circulated
SF News Crazed Suspect In Oakland Drive-By Shot And Killed By Police In San Leandro E. 14th on & off to Hwy 238 in San Leandro shut after Al. Co. Sheriff's kill suspect of crime spree. ETO 9:30am pic.twitter.com/zsWcgNqUsz— Kim McCallister (@McCallisterKim) September 22,
Arts & Entertainment Watch These Subtle, Hypnotic GIF Portraits Of Black Oakland Barbers Bay Area photographer Brandon Tauszik knows that GIFs don't have to be memes, or funny, or even all that fast paced. Instead, they can be a subtle snip of a barber's scissors, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 75,000 Or More Expected To Attend 7th Annual Eat Real Fest In Oakland Festival director Ally DeArman remembers a very different Eat Real Fest than the one taking place this weekend in Jack London Square. But back in 2009, even if the food festival's attendance wasn't
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: <i>East Side Sushi</i>, A Movie Shot In Oakland, Opens Friday Indie film and festival darling East Side Sushi, written and directed by SF State film program grad Anthony Lucero, is a story about Juana (Diana Elizabeth Torres), who gives up running her dad's
SF News Evicted Social Club Snaps Up Gingerbread House Property In Oakland A nonprofit sexy social club evicted from their Mission District space two years ago is doing the quintessential San Francisco thing — moving to Oakland. They've successfully rounded up a team of investors to
SF News Real Jerks Steal Running Shoes Donated To Oakland K-12 Students KPIX reports that running gear and shoes donated to Oakland youth group Running for a Better Oakland were stolen out of the ambulance in which they were being stored. Writes one organizer: "I
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oaklanders Gather To Celebrate The Life Of Bar Owner Peter Van Kleef Back in the days before the Fox was renovated, and before Uptown was anything more than an archaic Oakland neighborhood designation that no one really used anymore, Cafe Van Kleef opened on a
Arts & Entertainment Sports Fans Greeted By Cool Art Celebrating Oakland Teams Fans attending today's Raiders game will catch a glimpse of a colorful piece of art celebrating Oakland and its sports teams. The 150-foot "yarn bomb" is strung on the chain-link fence on the
SF News Selfie-Taker On Tracks Snarls BART Commute It's been a week of ups and downs for BART: while they made it through their second weekend of the Transbay Tube closure with nary a hitch, travel this week has been marred
SF News Oakland Whole Foods Customer Knocked Out By Guard In Bloody Confrontation [GRAPHIC] A security guard has been "permanently removed" from Whole Foods' Oakland store after a Thursday night confrontation that left a customer unconscious and lying in a pool of blood. The incident took place
SF News Oaklander Rails Against Gentrification, Tells Newcomers To Stop Moving There A short screed on Craigslist is making the rounds [Ed. Note: The post was removed, but it's screencapped below], posted in the Rooms & Shares section for Oakland, titled "STOP MOVING TO OAKLAND.
SF News BART Police To Seek Attempted Murder Charges For Man Who Allegedly Shot Himself On West Oakland Platform Just witnessed a shooting at West Oakland Bart station. 2 police men. 1 black man. pic.twitter.com/GijZ40ARq3— Akshay Dodeja (@dodeja) September 2, 2015 BART police announced Wednesday that they plan on
SF News Oakland Childhood Friends Say Virginia Shooter Vester Flanagan Was 'Respectable,' But Also Once Was A Male Escort The man known as Bryce Williams, born Vester Flanagan II, who was responsible for yesterday's shooting of two Virginia journalists, grew up in Oakland, as we noted yesterday. And now CBS 5 tracked
