Oakland

13 Sep 2018

News Wrap for this Week: Homeless and Hurricanes

This week’s news highlights homelessness in San Francisco and Oakland and touches a little on the monstrosity of a hurricane barreling toward the Southeast coast. Let’s go… SFPD plays “whack a mole” at the U.N. Plaza You may have noticed an increased police presence down at the U.N. Plaza in

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27 Aug 2018

Furries Robbed of Fursuits Before Burning Man! Suspected Weasels Still at Large

A Uhaul truck full of fursuits and Burning Man supplies was stolen this Sunday and has the furry community asking, “what kind of an animal would do such a thing?”  On August 24th Zarafa Giraffe was packing a Uhaul with fellow furries and getting ready to drive to Camp Fur in Black Rock

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29 Jul 2018

Facebook Lost $123 Billion Overnight…and a Bag Of Skittles Just Overdrew Me

Unless you’ve been living in captivity in the glaciers of Antarctica for the last decade or so, you have a Facebook account. Hell, I’ll be sharing this very article on Facebook within 24 hours, I’m sure. You probably also know that it is one of the richest companies on the

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03 Jul 2018

Legendary Punk Nerds Rocked Oakland w/ Fred Armisen

Devo Diaries at Burger Boogaloo By Jordan Latham It was a warm, apocalyptically dark pink night when I showed up at Mosswood Park Saturday, the “Mad Max” skies courtesy of another fire season off to a hellacious start. The Burger Boogaloo has become an annual pilgrimage of mine since The

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26 Apr 2018

Cracking Open A Cold Case: The Golden State Killer and The Legacy of Michelle McNamara

Joseph DeAngelo. If you don’t know that name, you will soon enough. Yesterday, April 25th, 72 year old Joseph DeAngelo was arrested in connection with a cold case that rocked the Bay area for a decade from 1976 to 1986. For a decade, the man known as The Original Night

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19 Apr 2018

This Week’s News: Pulitzers, Weed, and Snow…in Oakland

This week is all about the cool, the cunning and the cannabis. We’re diverging from the national news update in order to leave your stomach in tact for California’s first legal 420. You can thank me later. Trees here, trees there, trees everywhere In case you live under a rock,

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27 Nov 2017

Looking for an Oakland Editor for BAS

Greetings to all you amazing, brilliant, and fantastic East Bay Broke-Ass Stuart readers! Considering how much of our readership is in the East Bay these days we figured it made sense to expand to having a lot more East Bay coverage. So, we’re looking for an editor to cover Oakland

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