Oakland
We Wanna Give You a 2018 Oakland Beer Passport!
Step into a world of adventure with the Oakland Beer Passport. There’s no better way to explore Oakland than to literally drink it in. The Oakland Beer Passport is amazing, you get 28 beers at 28 bars for $35. It honestly doesn’t get much better than that, unless you get one
Sisters attacked in Sunday double stabbing on BART: 18-year-old Nia Wilson killed
Two sisters were attacked on BART Sunday night near the McArthur station in Oakland around 9:45 p.m., leaving one dead and one injured in a seemingly random double stabbing incident. The suspect is still at large. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, police are searching for a heavy-set white male
Alt-Right Frat Boys Descending on Oakland Tonight. Local Businesses Fighting Back.
The Proud Boys, everybody’s favorite Alt-Right frat boys, have planned a meet-up in Uptown Oakland tonight. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center the Proud Boys are anti-muslim misogynists, and that “rank-and-file Proud Boys and leaders regularly spout white nationalist memes and maintain affiliations with known extremists.” Don’t they just sound lovely?
As San Francisco Goes, So Goes Oakland
This originally appeared in my Broke-Ass City column in the San Francisco Examiner. I’ve made some tiny updates. The last time San Franciscans talked this much about Oakland was in 1906. The City was ablaze and 100,000 residents fled across San Francisco Bay, many never to move back to San Francisco.
Meet the Little Girl Who #PermitPatty Called the Cops On
The 8-year-old-girl racially profiled by #PermitPatty had a party thrown for her Saturday, complete with donations of more than $8,000 pledged from Bay Area cannabis companies. You see the young entrepreneur Jordan, above, surrounded by friends at Saturday’s celebration and fundraiser that added to her current GoFundMe campaign. Saturday she received
Ghost Ship fire defendants enter no contest plea, sentencing to follow
Guest Post by Nevin Long The only two defendants charged in the Ghost Ship warehouse fire, which killed 36 people on December 2, 2016, entered pleas of no contest in Alameda Superior Court Wednesday. Max Harris, 28, and Derick Almena, 48, agreed to sentences of six and nine years, respectively,
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