So, someone finally bought the Oakland Coliseum.  On Monday, it was announced that Oakland A’s owner John Fisher has agreed to sell his team’s half-interest in the Oakland Coliseum site to the African American Sports and Entertainment Group (AASEG). This follows AASEG’s recent agreement to purchase the other half of

A suspect was apprehended for allegedly using a blowtorch to ignite multiple vegetation fires along Interstate 880 in Oakland on Monday, according to officials. These fires occurred between Fruitvale Avenue, High Street, and Oakport Street, causing a traffic advisory around 12:30 p.m., as announced by the Oakland Fire Department on

A Big Change to This Year’s Voter Guide We’ve been doing voter guides for a really long time. I’m pretty sure we put our first one out in like 2010 or something. And I know that thousands of you rely on our voter guides to help you make decision. But

There’s a place on the other side of the Caldecott tunnel from Oakland called Lamorinda. It’s basically Oakland’s Marin County. It has beautiful rolling hills and rich people who don’t want you there. It also has Cal Shakes, a gorgeous outdoor theater where Bay Area stars like Zendaya made their

What’s modern writing if not just a vehicle for relentless and insufferable self promotion? So this article is me engaging in that. I recently made my first ever podcast appearance on the SucioTalk podcast and had a blast. If you like my articles or any of the dumb shit I

Oakland is having a moment, and not in a good way. Whether it’s the Juneteenth mass shooting at Lake Merritt that left 15 people injured or the FBI raiding Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s home, things in ‘The Town’ are looking kind of down.  With so much happening in Oakland, you

I remember my first day of Sociology class, Dr. Schutz, still one of the best professors I ever had, asked the class if we knew that the highest recorded homicide rate in United States history ever recorded by the FBI was just a 45 minute walk from the heart of

So you’ve lived here long enough to develop a routine and now you want to break out of it. What if you’re strapped for cash and you forgot why you work so hard to stay here? It’s more common than you think. One possibility is that it’s time for new

Do you ever get bored? It happens to me, and First Friday, while fun, is also conceptually kind of stale. It’s on Telegraph Avenue, which is fine, but if anywhere in Oakland could be described as touristy, the street that inspired a popular novel by Michael Chabon and a song