SF News SchwarzenWatcher Gets Caught on Tape Anyways, there's some somewhat juicy stuff in there, mainly Mr. Positive saying not so very nice things about Democratic legislators. You know, the guys he's all buddy buddy with. Everybody is saying it's
SF News American Football Spectacular: And A Child Shall Lead Them Kiffin has shown himself to be one of the most skillful tacticians in the National Football League in his 11 seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, helping birth the successful “Tampa 2” zone
SF News Your Commute: One If By Land, Two If By Sea If you were planning on taking the Oakland/Alameda Ferry, officials are recommending you take the Alameda Harbor Bay Ferry which obviously goes to Alameda. Thus the name.
SF News Your Commute: You're Bumming if You're Going Home on the Bay Bridge... Traffic was stopped to make way for ambulances and other emergency related cars. Bay Bridge commuters, we feel for you.
SF News JetBlue Coming to SFO The main problem with JetBlue, though, is that they don't go to a lot of airports. Here, you could get them at Oakland but not at SFO. But not for any longer-- JetBlue
SF News IDs, You Don't Need Our Stinking IDs But no, that's not the fun part, the fun part is that Gilmore, one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a millionaire thanks to being in early at Sun Microsystems,
SF News Political Junkie: Booooo! It's a bad sign when the Oakland City Council (and its participating public -- see notes in the comments below) takes the "worst behaved political activity" award on a day where not only
Arts & Entertainment Congratulations Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame Winners In honor of Van Halen being nominated to the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame, we give you this, a video of prime Van Halen in 1981 playing "Unchained" at the Oakland Arena.
SF News Oakland Airport Evacuated This all happened around 11 A.M. when a guy walked up to an Alameda County sheriff's deputy who was watching over the area where arriving passengers exit and enter the baggage claim
SF News Oakland's New Last-Minute Mayor Yeah, we don't remember any dramatic hand-on-the-Bible or inaugural speechifying either -- it turns out they threw together a somewhat slapdash inauguration when someone realized that the Oakland city charter required Dellums to
SF News American Football Spectacular: The Last Time It couldn't have come quickly enough for the Raiders. * Oakland vs. New York Jets Sunday, December 31, 2006. 10:00 AM, PST. Week 17 The Battle Of Motivation In Week 17, with nothing
Arts & Entertainment A Kite Doesn't Run Through Fremont No, we're just joking. It's not known why they're not filming in Fremont as they appear to be filming almost everywhere in the East Bay but Fremont. Scenes so far have been shot
SF News Your Commute: BART Gets Off the Good Foot Anyways, the cause was actually a cover board, the metal that covers the third rail, came lose at the West Oakland station around 7:15 so they could only run one train at
SF News American Football Spectacular: Disappointment Is The New Black * Kansas City vs. Oakland Saturday, December 23, 2006. 5:00 PM, PST. Week 16 The Battle Of Festivus Let the Airing Of Grievances begin! We're disappointed that we are having to think about
SF News American Football Spectacular: Around The World Again On A Boat That Sinks As It Sails No source was named to have given this statement. There are no postings on SFGate.com or the Oakland Tribune's website regarding this rumor yet. A bit of context: Schefter covered the Broncos
SF News Flying Out of Oakland? The easiest way of getting to the Oakland airport is AirBart. AirBart is a bus service that runs from the Oakland Coliseum BART station to the airport. It's only two bucks (plus whatever
Arts & Entertainment Monopoly This whole thing started when the San Jose Mercury put itself up for sale, or it's overlords Knight Ridder did. In swept MediaNews, who bought it from McClatchy Newspapers who owned the Mercury
Arts & Entertainment Upper Playground's Andrew Revelli Name Andrew Revelli Introduce yourself in one sentence Retail legend Age and Occupation 29, Vice President, Upper Playground and FIFTY24SF Gallery
SF News American Football Spectacular: It's Likely You Won't See This But It Will Happen Plenty of tickets still available for the game. Well, there must be, since the NFL is blacking the game out on TV. * St. Louis vs. Oakland Sunday, December 17, 2006. 1:00 PM,
Arts & Entertainment The Way We Were What the newsreel footage is about, actually, is public transportation. Mainly how great ours is and how well it services both San Francisco and the East Bay. Which, of course, is laden with
SF News American Football Spectacular: Dark Homecoming Coming to you from next to the fireplace at Fiddler's Green while watching The Big Game, it's your American Football Spectacular Week 13 preview for the Raiders! * Houston vs. Oakland Sunday, December 3,
SF News Your Commute: Unflappable Look how disappointed this YouTube poster is that no one paid attention to him sitting on the ceiling of the BART. (3:06, but half of the clip is just the same footage
SF News Handing in Guns to See the Guns Now you can already see the problems with this, can't you? First up, GnR ain't really big in the hood. The second thing is that they're not that big with anyone anymore. Oh,
SF News American Football Spectacular: At Least These Enemies Stay Close, or "<i>Guess Who</i>, OAK Edition" O, those Oakland Raiders. A team so historically shot through with internal strife that we just expect it at this point. It's ordinary. But as of Wednesday, the Raiders' 2006 regular season strife
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food Sections Around the Bay We gobble the various food sections up each Wednesday. These are our favorite tidbits from today's offerings: SF Chronicle: Tasty homemade food gifts that are ea$y on the budget (dark, milk &