FILE: A commuter looks on as a BART train pulls into a station in San Francisco. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images If you commute from Oakland to San Francisco each morning, chances …
The Ruby Room in Oakland, Calif., is closing after 24 years. Mariah Tiffany/ Special to SFGATE It’s the end of an era: Iconic Oakland dive bar Ruby Room is closing …
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags Participants dance at Days Like This at Lake Merritt in Oakland, Calif., on Oct. 27, 2023.Patricia Chang/Special to SFGATEOn a recent Friday evening at …
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags A user of X, formerly known as Twitter, posted a photo of Project: Empire on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. Courtesy of David Gallagher …
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags Festivalgoers watch Skrillex perform at the Portola Festival on Pier 80 in San Francisco on Oct. 1, 2023.Douglas Zimmerman/SFGATEPortola, the two-day electronic music …
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags A child paints at the Museum of Children’s Art in Oakland, Calif.Henna H. via YelpFrom hands-on art making at the Museum of Children’s …
Customers line up outside Vegan Mob, a vegan BBQ and soul food restaurant in Oakland, in 2020. Douglas Zimmerman/SFGate Cult favorite meat-free restaurant Vegan Mob is expanding across the Bay …
According to annual data from the Oakland Police Department, some of city’s busiest corridors are seeing a steady rise in commercial burglaries. Brad Wenner/Getty Images LED signs flash, advertising Vietnamese and Japanese …
Former NBA player and Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson (left) and Oakland mayor Sheng Thao in Oakland on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023. Gabe Fernandez/SFGATE Allegations that Kevin Johnson sexually abused several …