SF News Oakland Police Chief's 'Medical' Retirement Might Not Be So Medical The embattled, controversial, and less-than-effective Oakland Police Department made headlines again yesterday when Chief of Police Howard Jordan abruptly announced his retirement. The official word was that he is on medical leave, and
SF News 'Mummified Skull' Found In Oakland Recycling Center The remains of a heavily decomposed human head were found among a load of recycling at a West Oakland processing center around 8:45 a.m. Wednesday morning. Employees at the California Waste
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland's Beloved Merritt Restaurant & Bakery Closed After Major Fire The Merritt Bakery in Oakland, popular especially with the elderly but embraced by hipsters too, is closed today after an early morning fire that started in a storage room at the rear of
SF News Oakland Cops Shoot A Lot Of People A new piece in the Oakland Tribune by Thomas Peele the author of a recent book about the murder of Chauncey Bailey suggests that the OPD are, in fact, more trigger-happy than cops
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, In Oakland... Brandon Moss of the A's gets a cream pie to the face during an interview after his game winning two-run home run against the Angels on Tuesday.
SF News 19-Year-Old Man Killed In Drive-By Near Oakland Children's Hospital Friday evening, around 9:30 p.m. 19-year-old Ceejay Reed was fatally shot after he and two friends stepped out of their car on 53rd Street about a block away from Children's Hospital
SF News Digital Citizens Create Virtual Oakland Online On Minecraft, an immensely popular online virtual world that is something like Second Life meets an infinite supply of Legos, a certain type of digital escapist that has emerged. Minecraft players — there are
Arts & Entertainment Etiquette Week: How To Go To Oakland No, you won't get shot if you go there. Really. Probably not. Our sister city to the east has long gotten a bad rap for a higher-than-average crime rate, which tends to dominate
SF News S.F. Rapper K.O. Da Bandit Shot, Killed In Oakland San Francisco rapper K.O. Da Bandit (AKA Keith Head) was shot and killed in downtown Oakland Tuesday night. The 22-year-old was shot at 13th Street and Broadway near the 12th Street BART
SF News Five Teens Arrested In Killing of Paramedic in Oakland In case you had not caught the story on the local news, Dublin resident Quinn Boyer, a 34-year-old paramedic, was shot and killed at point blank range while driving in Oakland on April
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland Is Getting The Biggest Blue Bottle Location Yet Additional proof that Oakland has more hip cred (or at least more available square footage) than San Francisco at this point: the East Bay will soon get the largest Blue Bottle Coffee outpost
SF News Fake Plumber Molests 7-Year-Old Girl Near Lake Merritt Police are searching for a white man in his fifties who allegedly posed as a plumber Saturday afternoon to gain access to an apartment near Lake Merritt in Oakland's Chinatown. According to OPD,
SF News Gov. Brown Announces $1.5 Billion Chinese Investment For Oakland's Waterfront From the American Embassy in Beijing today, Governor Jerry Brown announced a $1.5 billion deal from a Chinese investment group to fund development of Oakland's 65-acre Brooklyn Basin project. The project sits
SF News Oakland Police Shoot Unarmed Teen This is odd. While responding to a call regarding an armed robbery, Oakland police shot a teen who, it seems, had nothing to do with the robbery. While not seriously injured, the teen,
SF News BART Train Hits Person At 12th Street Station Egads. A BART train hurled into a person during this morning's commute. The incident happened at the 12th Street station in Oakland. Contra Costa Times reports: "BART officials were notified about 9:10
SF News One Year After Raid, Oaksterdam University Still Not Charged With Anything A year ago today, Oakland's pioneering Oaksterdam University was raided by DEA agents. Its vocal founder, millionaire activist Richard Lee, also saw his home raided, and subsequently he stepped down as leader of
SF News Three Men Dead in Separate East Oakland Shootings on Easter The violent weekend here in S.F. was matched with violence across the Bay on Easter Sunday. Three men were fatally shot in three separate incidents yesterday, between 10 a.m. and 8
SF News Woman Reportedly Shot In The Face Five Times In West Oakland A 29-year-old woman was found shot dead outside a small corner store at 12th and Peralta Streets in West Oakland around 10:30 a.m. this morning. Although details are scarce at the
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Betti Ono Gallery Photo by Joanne Wong, shot at the Betti Ono Gallery.
SF News Two Oakland City Council Members Accused In Auditor Probe Oakland City Auditor Courtney Ruby is out for blood, it seems, or perhaps just widespread reforms in the corrupt "culture" she sees in Oakland's city government. In a scathing new report, Ruby alleges
SF News Middle Class Man Admits: 'I Am Scared To Live In Oakland' Mark Cohen, a criminal defense/civil litigation lawyer and Oakland resident, penned an op-ed piece for Oakland Tribune today. Simply titled "I live a middle class life and I am scared to live
SF News Oakland Police Brag About Nabbing 'Most Wanted' Criminal Who Wasn't A Criminal At All Not that the Oakland Police Department needs any more bad press at this point we have to assume they don't even give a rat's ass what anyone says but a fellow by the
SF News 31-Year-Old Oakland Woman Goes Missing After Morning Run Erica Maskaleris, 31, of Oakland has been missing now for four and a half days, and her family and friends are becoming understandably anxious. Maskaleris was last seen in running clothes on her
Arts & Entertainment Sutro Sam Hasn't Been Spotted In Weeks, Probably Moved To Oakland Sutro Sam, the young river otter who captivated a city when he first showed up in the Sutro Baths to sun himself last October, has not been spotted around his personal lap pool
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eat This Tonight: Yonsei Ramen Yonsei Ramen Shop is the savory after-hours shadow of Hopscotch in Uptown Oakland. Chef Kyle Itani (Yoshi’s, SF/Oakland, The Meatball Shop, NYC) started Yonsei last November with the idea of catching
