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Meanwhile, On Mayor Jean Quan's iPhone...

She has a pink plastic iPhone case! How about that. Oakland Mayor Jean Quan snaps a shot a Gold Rush-era jewelry box after a news conference announcing its recovery at the Oakland Museum

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Go Eat This Tonight: Juhu Beach Club

What started as Top Chef alum Preeti Mistry’s Indian street food Mission pop-up a couple years ago is crossing the bridge and settling in to a permanent home in Oakland’s Temescal

TV Journalists Now Bringing Armed Security With Them to Cover Oakland

You may recall the story from last November in which KPIX cameraman Gregg Welk was assaulted and had his camera stolen, still running, just as he and reporter Anne Makovec were covering a

Missing Twentysomethings In Peru Are Fine, Just Couldn't Get on Facebook [Updated]

We can't help but be amused by this: The family and friends of "missing" backpackers Jamie Neal, 25, and Garrett Hand, 27, of Oakland are relieved to hear from the U.S. State

Oakland's Lake Merritt: Less Urine-y, Still Plagued By Fowl Defecation Problem

Over in Oakland the often-smelly Lake Merritt has been experiencing a renaissance thanks to $47 million worth of improvements over the past 10 years. Last week, Oakland Mayor Jean Quan opened up another

Oakland Rapper Kenny Clutch Killed In Las Vegas Strip Shootout

Kenneth Cherry Jr., a rapper from Oakland who goes by the name Kenny Clutch, has been identified as one of the victims of rolling shooting down the Las Vegas strip. Cherry, who had

Oakland A's Maybe One Step Closer to San Jose

The owners of the Oakland Athletics, who back in 2009 announced that they were saying "See ya" to Oakland and moving down to San Jose, might be one step closer to making that

Arts & Entertainment

Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Nunca' by Trails And Ways

Oakland indie quartet Trails & Ways was featured this week among the SF Bay Guardian's 'Bands on the Rise,' and we've got to say we love them so far. They were much

Young Man Shot, Killed In East Oakland

Police are trying to determine the name and age (believed to be somewhere around 19) of a man who was shot and killed in East Oakland's Laurel neighborhood on Saturday night. The unidentified

Oakland Terrorist Bank Bombing Thwarted By FBI

A terrorist bombing didn't go according to plans over in Oakland on Thursday night. Matthew Aaron Llaneza, 28, of San Jose was taken into custody near a Bank of America building at 303

Anti-Smoking Crusaders Seek To Ban Smoking Around Lake Merritt

Some "chemically sensitive" and otherwise smoke-averse individuals in Oakland have just filed a petition with city councilperson Rebecca Kaplan to ban smoking around the perimeter of Lake Merritt. Once again, smokers, in case

Suspect in Friday's Fatal Art Murmur Shooting Is In Custody

The suspected gunman in Friday's despicable and tragic shooting during Art Murmur/First Fridays is now in custody. Oakland police arrested him on Saturday night but have not yet released his name, pending

City In Crisis: Little Girl Shot In Oakland [Updated]

Oakland crime problem shows no signs of abating. On Monday afternoon, an 8-year-old girl was shot in the leg, the victim of a drive-by shooting. According to Oakland Tribune, "The girl was standing

More Footage of Saturday's 880 Sideshow

Call it a souped-up auto flash mob, but here's yet more footage of the sideshow that briefly shut down the northbound lanes of I-880 in Oakland in the middle of Saturday afternoon, shot

Video: Damn Fools Doing Donuts On 880 In Oakland [UPDATED]

UPDATE: Original footage pulled overnight. Luckily, we found a copy of it, which you can find below. UPDATE 2: Here's more footage via the other side of the freeway. A few cretins took

Latest Gang War in Oakland Tied to August Murder of Teenage Girl

The recent uptick in gun violence in Oakland, including last weekend's shocking number of shootings (fifteen), can be tied back, in large part, to the August murder of a 16-year-old East Oakland girl.

Gov. Brown To Oakland: Solve Your Own Problems

When it comes to the recent surge in violent crime in Oakland, California Governor and Oakland Hills homeowner Jerry Brown told his told his home city to just deal with it, basically. Oakland

Seriously: Fifteen Shot, Four Dead This Weekend In Oakland

Four people were killed Friday in separate incidents in Oakland within six hours. This gave way to an extraordinarily violent weekend in Oakland in which another eleven people were shot, some likely in

Arts & Entertainment

Photo: Hyenas Join The Oakland Zoo Family

Three spotted hyenas moved into the Oakland Zoo. Here are two of them! The hyenas (two males and one female) relocated from the Berkeley Hyena Center, where they were part of a colony

Oakland Now Gayer Than San Francisco, Says 'Advocate'

There's been a lot of talk lately about how hip Oakland is these days, but you know what no one has been talking about in the neverending San Francisco vs. Oakland debate? Just

Arts & Entertainment

$12,000 Gold Rush Artifact Stolen From Oakland Museum

In the second break-in in two months, a man stole a gold- and quartz-lined box from a display case in the Oakland Museum that is rumored to be worth $800,000. The box

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Go Eat This Thing Tonight: Go To Oakland, Get Crabs

As dungeness crab is still very much in season, Oakland chef Russ Moore of Camino on Grand Avenue will continue firing up locally caught crustaceans on his nine-foot-wide wood-fired grill every Monday throughout

Arts & Entertainment

A Guide For Making A Seamless San Francisco-To-Oakland Transition [Updated]

From what we know of Oakland — which is everything — residents stroll around and shoot each other with guns. Lots of guns. In between going to Ike's and Plum, that is. But that's pretty

Oakland Man Shot Multiple Times On New Year's Eve

While the East Bay city has, as far as we know, been able to stave off any murders in 2013, Oakland played host to their final attempted murder of 2012 on New Year's

Oakland Hires Former L.A. Police Chief to Consult on Crime

It's been a rough year for murders in Oakland, and critics have been saying the department can't catch criminals anymore and calling for a federal takeover of the department. Now, the City Council