SF News Woman Struck, Killed by Amtrak Train in Oakland Vanessa Hunt, 55, of Oakland died Wednesday while running to cross the train tracks. Hunt, it seems, "tried to beat the train and run across the tracks, bypassing lowered crossing barriers at 85th
SF News Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums Continues Downward Spiral While we love to poke fun at Mayor Gavin Newsom now and then (which we're sure he finds nothing short of adorable, right?) we can all agree on one thing: at least he's
SF News Oakland Raiders Coach Set to Get the Axe After not beating and choking of his ex-assistant coach, Randy Hansen, Oakland Raiders coach Tom Cable is ready to get the boot from owner Al Davis. The impending firing, it seems, is due
SF News Oakland Woman's Attack Circulates On Internet After Oakland female rapper Mina Mack was beaten in the doorway of an Oakland recording studio on Monday night, according to CBS 5, "a friend told her that video of the punching and
Arts & Entertainment Doing More With Less - Oakland’s DIY Bike Shop: The Bikery by Natalie Cadranel One upside to a lagging economy is that it encourages people to become more resourceful and creative about how they spend their time and money. After a recent move to
SF News Oakland Shootout Kills One, Injures One Oakland, ranked no. 3 in the U.S. when it comes to crime, played host to a police shootout last night. "Oakland police officers opened fire on two armed suspects Thursday evening in
SF News <em>Wall Street Journal</em> On Temescal "Oakland's answer to San Francisco's Mission District," Temescal is, arguably, one of Oakland's finest neighborhoods. As Curbed noted earlier today, the WSJ review is downright intriguing, not to mention highly informative, when praising
SF News Oakland Beats SF In Mayoral Vanishing Acts The feud between San Francisco and Oakland just got hotter. Oakland, thinking it's all that, creams San Francisco when it comes to having an absent mayor. SFGate's Chip Johnson boasts, "While everyone was
misc Builder of Oakland's Fox Theater Once Imprisoned For 'White Slavery' On this relatively slow local news day in which most everyone is out of the office, the Oakland Tribune is running this amusing scandal from the archives about Maury Diggs, the builder of
SF News Oakland Murder #99 According to BCN/KTVU, a fatal shooting was reported to Oakland police at 2:48 this morning. The victim, 31-year-old man, was found in the1900 block of 85th Avenue, near Birch Street. He
SF News Police Need Your Help In Solving BART Shooting Involving Teen Girl Speaking of BART, police are asking for the public's help involving the shooting of a teen girl over the weekend. The incident in question, which happened at around 10:20 p.m. on
SF News Oakland, Full of Crime CQ Press released their annual list of the hottest crime cities in the U.S. And the Bay Area scored in the top 20. Twice! Coming in behind Camden, NJ, and St. Louis,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: A Sour Mezcal Cocktail from Camino As we noted last week in the New School Cocktail Glossary, the bar program over at Camino in Oakland, just like the food, is focused entirely on local, seasonal, sustainable, organic ingredients and
SF News Car Thief Steals Vehicle To Get To Auto-Theft Trial Now this? Is our kind of criminal. With no way to get to his auto-theft trial in Vallejo, tenacious Oakland resident Samuel George Botchvaroff did what comes naturally to him: he stole a
SF News Oakland Mayor Dellums & Wife Owe IRS $239K Oh oh. Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums owes the IRS in back taxes. Lots and lots of back taxes. According to CBS 5, "Alameda County records show the IRS has placed a lien on
SF News Raiders Coach Speaks After yesterday's (surprise) decision by a Napa Valley DA not to press charges against Raiders coach Tom Cable, the coach told the media, "I'm obviously very thankful that the authorities did the thoroughness
SF News 3 Dead In Oakland Domestic Violence Incidents In the span of 75 minutes, three people were killed in Oakland on Thursday morning, allegedly in the heat of domestic violence blowups. At around 5:15 a.m., according to KTVU, a
SF News Meanwhile, Oakland Rolls Back Parking Meter Hours While San Franciscans lose their righteous marbles over whether or not to extend parking meter hours, Oakland has pushed back parking enforcement from 8 p.m. to 6 p.m. Why? Because it's
misc Have You Seen This Friendly, Sweet Chicken? Which would be the more difficult/least appealing task, handling a live or a dead chicken until the owner arrived? Flyer found in Shafter, Oakland. We wonder if it belongs to Novella Carpenter.
SF News Quote du Jour: Jerry Brown On San Francisco Attorney General/future gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown was in San Francisco today. He was at some sort of lunch for whiny Geary Boulevard merchants. When comparing Oakland to San Francisco, he made the
SF News Man Falls from Container Ship, Dies A little after 5 a.m. this morning, a man aboard a container ship making its way into the Oakland Outer Harbor fell overboard. Found by the ship's crew and taken to to
SF News Shooting Leaves Teen Brain-Dead Early this morning, a shooting reported just after midnight at 2515 Foothill Boulevard in Oakland. According to CBS 5/BCN, "Officers arrived to find the teen suffering from a gunshot wound. He was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Zine Alert: Food+Sex One of our discoveries at this past weekend's Eat Real Fest was a new art/collage magazine called Food+Sex. Publisher Mark Andrew Gravel was on hand selling copies on Saturday at Jack
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Weekend We Got Fat and Learned Butchery at Oakland's Eat Real Fest It was a festival-heavy weekend for us, what with Outside Lands bridging the generations through music, food, wine and Tom Jones, and the first annual Eat Real Festival in Oakland, a celebration of
SF News Police Arrest Hasanni Campbell's Foster Parents for Murder And now for some even more depressing news. SFAppeal has word that Louis Ross and Jennifer Campbell, the foster parents of 5-year-old Hasanni Campbell who went missing earlier this month, have been arrested
