Alfred Zampa was a working-class Italian-American who worked on every bridge in the Bay Area, including the Carquinez Bridge, and is now remembered as the accidental founder of the “Halfway to Hell Club” and the namesake of the Alfred Zampa Bridge.

To quote the world famous Family Guy weather man: “It gon rain.” The biggest storm in the current series has officially arrived in the Bay Area, bringing heavy rain Tuesday that could lead to flooding. Some areas might see as much as 8 inches of rain by Tuesday night. Minor

Step into a world of adventure with the San Francisco Beer Passport. There’s no better way to explore San Francisco than to literally drink it in. This passport is amazing! Each one contains 28 coupons to buy one beer, get a second beer FREE at 28 of the finest locally

One thing you can say about sideshows is that they’re never predictable. And as the Vallejo Police Department figured out even ten-foot pythons get hyphy every now and then. According to the Vallejo Police Department, authorities received multiple reports around 11:12 p.m. on Friday regarding a sideshow involving approximately 500

It’s pretty normal to hate on tech in the Bay Area. It’s actually cliche at this point. The hip kids hate A.I. now. It’s tech, but for people who want to circumstantially murder the working class so they don’t have to interact with the people that they’re displacing when they

It’s been awhile and a lot has happened since my last article. I had a cancer scare, had back surgery, got a new girlfriend, faced a real risk of paralysis and began working with pro-Palestinian activists. So for this article, I’ve decided to go back to my roots and focus

If you go north of Berkeley, you’ll notice something interesting about the East Bay’s shoreline. It becomes increasingly industrial once you cross the boundary into Contra Costa County. Richmond is the first city you hit (El Cerrito is just rich Richmond) and it serves as a quintessential example of an

Scott Wiener is attacked a lot, and most of it is unfair. There is no evidence that he is a groomer or a pedophile or any of the other nasty things right wing media has said about him. A lot of the attacks on Wiener are rooted in homophobia and

When you think of Richmond, California, what do you think of? Most people think of violent crime, poverty and pollution. But there’s a lot more to the City of ‘Pride and Purpose’ than negative headlines.  In the last 10 years, Richmond’s reduction in homicides and other violent crimes is nothing