SF News Oakland Once Again Contemplating Broadway Streetcar Line For the second time in the last ten years, the City of Oakland is initiating a study to look into the feasibility and potential economic-development opportunities that would come from a streetcar line
SF News Anonymous Releases Personal Data On Jean Quan, Oakland Officials In response to what they view as an unnecessarily violent response by the City of Oakland to Occupy protesters, the internet collective known as Anonymous struck out against Oakland officials today by posting
SF News Bricks Fall Off Liquor Store In Oakland; Every Journalist In Town Covers It So, a piece of antique brick wall adorning the cornice of an East Oakland liquor store crumbled and fell to the sidewalk early this morning, and for lack of any new Occupy shenanigans
SF News Three Overnight Shootings In Oakland, One Fatal In addition to the shootings on this side of the Bay last night, three separate shootings in Oakland left one 48-year-old man dead and two others wounded. The fatal incident occurred around 8:
SF News Fruitvale Taco Truck Stickup Ends In Shootout A couple of attempted robbers and the owner of the taco truck they tried to stickup got in to a gun battle in a heavily-armed corner of Oakland late last night. According to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Memoirs: The Gentleman Chefs Club SFist is beginning a new series in which Bay Area natives and long-time residents can share their stories from bygone eras. Our inaugural story comes from Bev DeBeaumont Warnecke, who worked at Baruh
SF News Oakland Occupier Renounces Occupy, Blames Melee On Outsiders We just came across an interesting editorial regarding last weekend's Occupy Oakland kerfuffle in which a stalwart member of the bandwagon expresses distaste for the lack of strategy and general stupidity of what
SF News Meanwhile, At Frank Ogawa Plaza... Graffiti gets the message out at the entrance to Frank Ogawa Plaza this morning following Saturday's day of action in Oakland and OPD's brutal response. After a confrontation with police, demonstrators entered City
SF News Woman Attacked On BART Coliseum Platform A woman reported being attacked by 3 to 4 men on the Oakland BART Coliseum/Oakland Airport station platform this morning during the morning commute, reports KRON 4 Morning News. She received medical
SF News Mark Davis' Hair Emergency Trumps Possible Raiders Return To LA We came to write a piece on the Oakland Raiders possibly moving back to Los Angeles. We stayed to gaze in shock and awe at Mark Davis' hair. Because that there is a.
Arts & Entertainment Real Housewife Of Atlanta Coming to Oakland To Sell Sex Toys R&B Singer/Songwriter and Real Housewife of Atlanta Kandi Burruss will be on hand to help local sex toy purveyor Good Vibrations celebrate the opening of their new Oakland location [link
SF News Raiders Fire Head Coach Hue Jackson Oh dear. The Oakland Raiders fired head coach Hue Jackson on Tuesday. Jackson, if you recall, coached for one season after the firing of brutish coach Tom Cable. "Jackson let the Raiders to
SF News Berkeley City Clerk Found Dead Inside Her Home [Updated] Deanna Despain, Berkeley's city clerk, was found dead inside her Oakland home (at on the 4100 block of Lyman Road) on Saturday morning. According to Berkeleyside, who broke the story, "The coroner’s
Arts & Entertainment 'New York Times' Names Oakland Number-Five Place To Visit In 2012 Don't get us wrong: We hella love Oakland, in all its urban, slightly dangerous, Brooklyn-in-the-90s sort of glory. But excuse us if we chuckle a little finding it on a list of places
SF News Carry-On Knife Results In Man's Arrest at Oakland Airport Oops. After discovering a 4-inch butterfly knife in a carry-on bag, a 38-year-old Chicago man was arrested at Oakland International Airport on Thursday. "The man, who was headed to Las Vegas on a
SF News $25,000 Reward Offered In Fatal Shooting Of 5-Year-Old Oakland Boy A five-year-old Oakland boy died at Children's Hospital late Friday night after being struck in the neck by shots fired from a car passing by his family's taco truck on International Boulevard. Gabriel
SF News Occupy Tree-Sitters Return To Frank Ogawa Plaza And just like that, a smattering of Occupy Oakland protesters have returned to Frank Ogawa. But this time they've taken to the trees. OakFoSho has recorded footage he shot live at the scene
SF News Police Sweep Out Nascent Occupy Oakland Encampment Just as soon as it came—on Tuesday, to be exact—last night police evicted residents of the new Occupy Oakland encampment on the 2000 block of Peralta Street near Mandela Parkway. Set
SF News Woman Sexually Assaulted On Oakland Street A woman walking in the 9000 block of Holly Street a little before 7 a.m. was mugged and sexually assaulted on Monday. According to BCN, "The suspect held the victim at knifepoint
SF News New Occupy Encampment Springs Up In West Oakland Just when you thought they might be hibernating, more than a dozen tents went up last night at a new Occupy Oakland encampment on the 2000 block of Peralta Street near Mandela Parkway.
SF News Local Astrologist Predicts Bad Vibes For Mayor Quan's Post-Occupy Career Occupiers, political pundits, twitter humorists and TV talking heads have all been speculating on what the post-Occupy future holds for embattled Oakland mayor Jean Quan. While the general consensus seems to be "she
SF News Shooting Near Fruitvale BART An unidentified man was taken to the hospital last night after being shot near the Frutivale BART station at International & 39th Avenue. The man "appears to be in stable condition," notes BCN.
Arts & Entertainment Kreayshawn Almost Became A Janitor, Once Worked At IKEA Oakland-born rapper Kreayshawn is headlining a New Year's Eve show at the Regency Ballroom (tickets still available), winding a year in which a single YouTube video landed her a record deal and a
SF News East Bay Foundation Gives Christmas Gifts To Murder Victims' Children Christmas came early for a group of 48 families touched by violence in Oakland. An organization called the Nemo Foundation, along with a battered women’s program, A Safe Place, threw a special
SF News Occupy SFers Still Being Arrested; Oakland Wants Occupier Shenanigans Stopped at All Costs [Updated] You and the rest of the planet are tired of reading Occupy headlines, but you might like to know that the SFPD arrested yet another person, under the Sit/Lie law, for plopping
