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
Arts & Entertainment Eat Real Festival at Jack London Square This Weekend Oakland's Eat Real Festival, which was founded last year, is a sister event to the San Francisco Street Food Festival and sounds like a much better run event than the SF-based debacle trial
SF News Veteran OPD Officer Commits Suicide The Oakland Police Department revealed yesterday that "Officer Murray Hoyle committed suicide in an unincorporated area of Brentwood on Saturday." Hoyle, it seems, was with the OPD for more than 28 years. According
SF News Hassani Campbell's Father Fails Lie Detector Test The father of five-year-old Hassani Campbell, the boy who went missing from a parking lot in Oakland’s Rockridge district last week, failed a FBI lie detector test. KTVU has word that "[l]
misc Photo du Jour 486 Behold Oakland's Rotunda Building. Designed by Charles Dickey in 1921, the structure is "considered one of the most beautiful buildings in the City of Oakland." It stands 120 foot high, boating a "5,
SF News Four Wounded In Oakland Shooting An unwelcome gift for the new Oakland police chief Anthony Batts? Last night's shooting on the 17500 block of 85th Street, which saw four people get shot a little after 9 p.m.
SF News Search for Missing Oakland Boy Intensifies FBI agents armed with search dogs have joined the effort to help find Hasanni Campbell, the five-year-old boy who went missing in Rockridge on Monday afternoon. According to the Oakland Tribune, "Louis Ross,
SF News Oakland Boy Missing Five-year-old Hassani Campbell went missing on Monday. The boy, who has cerebral palsy, was last seen in the Rockridge neighborhood, "reported missing from the area of 6000 College Avenue at around 4:15
SF News Oakland Hazardous Warning After coming across "possible chemicals and other suspicious items at an apparent suicide scene" at a Jack London Square Hotel, authorities evacuated several rooms at the hotel and shut down Broadway Avenue and
SF News SF and Oakland A.M. Shootings Early Saturday morning, a 16-year-old girl was shot on the 3400 block of International Boulevard in Oakland. According to reports, after OPD officers saw a car driving "erratically" a little before 1:30
SF News Oakland Salon Beating Case: Misdemeanor Charges?! Cavenia Bryant and Jamillya Edgerton, the two waste-of-space human beings who videotaped themselves brutally attacking an Oakland hair salon owner, then bragged about it on-air to radio station KMEL -- were in court
SF News Dude, Oakland Tries to Legalize Pot With, Like, a Ballot Initiative by Chris Jones A bunch of reefer addicts in Oakland filed a ballot initiative with the California Secretary of State yesterday to legalize the marijuana for fun time recreational purposes. The fine folks
SF News BART - Oakland Airport Connector Closer to Reality by Chris Jones Yesterday, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission voted 10 to 3 to approve $140 million to help pay for the long awaited automated people mover between the Oakland Coliseum BART station and
SF News Oakland Approves Tax On Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Part effort to generate revenue and part Bay Area-esque statement, Oakland voters passed a tax on medical marijuana joints, making it the first taxed pot dispensary in the U.S. While the tax
SF News Oakland Cops Kill Suspected Rapist Yesterday. after two Oakland officers confronted a man on the 1400 block of 16th Avenue a little after 3 p.m., "the suspect pulled out a handgun and started firing at the officers.
Arts & Entertainment Beyonce Renders Fans Hysterical In Oakland Well, this is just downright sweet, Beyonce. You don't seem nearly as frosty as some have claimed. The former Destiny's Child frontwoman performed in Oakland this weekend, garnering elated reviews. Above is a
