SF News Oakland Ranks No. 2 (Again) On Dumb Magazine's 'Unfriendliest' U.S. Cities List Alright, maybe it's mean-spirited to call Condé Nast's Traveler magazine "dumb," but for the second year it has published a readers' survey ranking Oakland as the No. 2 "unfriendliest" city in the U.
SF News MLB Commissioner Unhappy With Oakland A's Stadium Situation While the Oakland A's stadium drama isn't necessarily breaking news, now MLB commissioner Bud Selig has expressed discontent with the situation. As the AP reports, Selig is "frustrated" that the A's still don't
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink With Shakewell, Onetime 'Top Chef' Contestants Jen Biesty and Tim Nugent May Be Starting A Mini Oakland Empire With the announcement today of the Season 12 cast of Bravo's long-running Top Chef, it seems appropriate to take a moment to look in on a pair of former cheftestants from the Bay
SF News 'Orchestrated Multiple Sideshow Event' Sunday Ties Up Two Freeways In Oakland, Results In Motorcyclist Death Several rolling sideshows involving as many as 100 cars took place Sunday evening around 7:30 p.m. simultaneously on Interstates 580 and 880 in Oakland, at the Port of Oakland, the Bay
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink KronnerBurger Takes Over Longtime Piedmont Avenue Mainstay This October Chef Chris Kronner's burger venture, KronnerBurger, which began life as a pop-up at Bruno's in 2012 and has since high-tailed to Oakland, will finally be getting a permanent home this fall, as Inside
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleaner: Allegedly Drunk Lady Plows Into Oakland Fire Hydrant What's that about the drought? An allegedly drunk woman piloting a vintage Mercedes crashed into a fire hydrant in Oakland a few days ago, and we have some citizen-uploaded video footage. It was
SF News BART's Summer Of Bomb Threats Continues With West Oakland Scare Tuesday Night It's been a wild month of bomb scares at East Bay BART stations! In the latest incident last night, their service was disrupted for about two hours while a bomb squad investigated a
Arts & Entertainment Oakland To Host Its First LGBT Pride Parade This Year Oakland's traditional Labor Day Weekend Pride festivities will, for the first time this year, include an actual parade. As the Bay Area Reporter tells us via Oakland Pride's newsletter, the plan is to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Your Friday Night Agenda: Hoodslam, Jack London Square, Bar And Bites Hopping photo credit: Oakland Local What you're doing this weekend: Hoodslam, Friday, August 1, 9 p.m. Have you guys been to Hoodslam? Heard of it? Well, whatever your answer, it's exactly what you
SF News Oakland Coliseum BART Station Reopens After Bomb Scare The Oakland Coliseum BART Station has been reopened after a rush hour closure and evacuation due to concerns over a possible bomb threat to the station. According to BART spokesperson Jim Allison, an
SF News Decomposing Body Sickens Fifteen At Alameda County Coroner When staffers at the Alameda County Coroner's bureau fell ill Wednesday, the building was evacuated and a hazardous materials team was called to the scene. However, neither toxins or chemicals were to blame
SF News Oakland Mayor Jean Quan Was Not Texting During Car Accident, Say Police Shortly after being shamed by Stanley Roberts last month for texting and using her cell phone without a headset while driving, Oakland Mayor Jean got in a fender bender on June 8 during
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
