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 &
SF News Eritrean Community Crime Shocker Murder victims-- who died after being shot via open fire in a third floor apartment-- include a widowed mother named Winta T. Mehari, 28, of Berkeley, her brother Yonas Mehari, 17, who lived
SF News Your Commute: Eighty-Sixing the 880 The problem was that a large steel plate placed on the highway was moved off of where it was placed. Naturally, the repair work was to move the steel plate back to where
Arts & Entertainment ChronicleWatch Watch: By The Numbers Total number of problems fixed: 139. Breakdown by region: San Francisco -- 70 (29 street repairs, 23 park fixes, 7 public transportation fixes, 11 signs). East Bay -- 44 (21 street, 14 park,
SF News It's Thursday-- Do You Know Where Your Baseball Team Is? The thing most outsiders don’t understand about Oakland is that sentimentality is not one of its remarkable traits-- the Raiders beat that out of us in 1981. We are use to teams
SF News It's Wednesday-- Do You Know Where Your Baseball Team Is? Well, it's official, or at least as official as official gets-- the A's are moving to 'the Burbs. Tuesday they held a press conference with all the official types and even unveiled a
SF News It's Tuesday-- Do You Know Where Your Team Is? Okay, here's today’s team on a move recap: As for things in Oaktown, the repercussions of the A's possible move to Fremont has mainly been a shrug and a cry of "so
Arts & Entertainment Fedorov + Ventriloquism = Our Idea of Heaven And now, here's where you folks come in: After you've bought your ticket, let us know in the comments which of the entertainers you'd like us to interview. We can't absolutely guarantee that
