Arts & Entertainment Kim Kardashian Coming To Oakland To Speak On Objectification Of Women In Media Selfie photographer and noted famous person Kim Kardashian, whose recent visits to the San Francisco Bay Area include the occasion of her engagement to the musician and thinker Kanye West, returns to Northern
SF News Southwest Pilots Spot Five-Foot Drone While Landing At Oakland Airport Some pilots aboard a Southwest flight landing at Oakland International Airport Saturday evening reported seeing a "fairly good-sized drone" in restricted airspace, just off to the plane's right side, flying at about 2,
SF News Oakland Cops Didn't Even Bother With 100-Person Protest Last Night Though there was a protest Wednesday night in downtown Oakland to protest Mayor Libby Schaaf's new strictures on nighttime protests, the Oakland police, perhaps wisely, just decided to pretend it wasn't happening. The
SF News Suspect Killed In First Oakland Police Fatal Shooting In Two Years An armed suspect was killed this morning in what authorities say is the first fatal police shooting involving Oakland city police in two years. Police were called to the scene by firefighters just
SF News $40K In Equipment Stolen From NBA Entertainment Crew In East Oakland Not far from the Oakland Coliseum, the site of last night's NBA Finals Game 1 victory for the Warriors, an NBA crew left their van in a parking lot near a Panda Express
SF News Oakland's New Mayor To Be Faced With Another Big Demonstration Friday Over Her Protest Crackdown If you've been in the Bay Area more than a minute you should already know that Oakland loves a protest or, should I say, protesters really like to shake shit up across the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Millennium Reopens In Oakland On Thursday Vegans across the region can rejoice that Millennium is returning this week in the former Box & Bells space in Rockridge. The beloved, high-end, vegan eatery thrived for 21 years, first on McAllister
SF News More Weekend Sideshows Screech Across Oakland, No Arrests Made The ongoing spate of doughnut-spinning sideshows on Oakland streets brought at least two separate sideshows in different locations Friday night, and one on Sunday that briefly shutdown the I-880 freeway. No injuries or
SF News Oakland Protestors March In Defiance Of Mayor's Ban On Nighttime Demonstrations Oakland police detained 52 protestors on Saturday night as they marched in the streets in defiance of Mayor Libby Schaaf's new ban on nighttime protests. Demonstrators were allowed to march from City Hall
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Poutine With Beef Cheek Gravy At KronnerBurger Open as of two weeks ago in Oakland is KronnerBurger, the long-awaited brick-and-mortar from chef Chris Kronner formerly of Bar Tartine, Serpentine, and Slow Club. Kronner launched KronnerBurger as a pop-up at Bruno's
SF News Oakland Businesses Damaged In Riots Find Little Help From Officials In the aftermath of the May Day riots, businesses among Oakland's Broadway Auto Row are still cleaning up the mess and finding little relief from politicians. "What gets me is that the police
Arts & Entertainment If The Warriors Win It All, Does Oakland Or SF Get To Host The Parade? We're a little spoiled with the victory parades around here, but this is a good question: If the Warriors succeed in winning their first NBA championship in 40 years, which "home" city gets
SF News Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf Issues Mea Culpa Following May Day Vandalism Spree Newly elected Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and her police chief Sean Whent admitted in a press conference Saturday that they weren't exactly prepared for the level of destruction that was wrought around downtown
SF News [Updated] Oakland May Day Mayhem Leaves Many Smashed Storefronts, Smashed Cars May Day demonstrations for a variety of causes but most prominently centering on the police homicide of Freddie Gray carried well into the evening on Friday. As with previous days of uprising in
SF News Rapper And Twitter Icon Lil B Kicked Out Of Oakland Hotel For Weed, Claims They Stole $10k TMZ reports that rapper Lil B a.k.a. Lil B From The Pack a.k.a. Lil B The Based God is feuding with Oakland Airport's Red Lion hotel, and may the
SF News SF Now Has The Highest Minimum Wage In The Country Today's the day San Francisco catches up with Oakland! As of Friday, SF's minimum wage rises from 11.05 to $12.25 an hour, which means the city now joins Oakland as having
SF News Oakland Braces For Major May Day Mayhem As we mentioned the other day, some dueling protests are going to converge on Oakland this May Day, tomorrow, possibly reviving some Occupy-level chaos in the city's streets. As ABC 7 reports in
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
