Oakland Army Base Project: Oakland City Council Approves Plan
The Oakland Army Base Project – the long-dreamed of plan to redevelop a long-dead 366-acre land assembly that was once the home of the U.S. Army for the San Francisco…
Facebook Buys Instagram: Implications For San Francisco And The Bay Area
Yesterday, Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg put out a blog post announcing that his company spent $1 billion to acquire Instagram, the popular smartphone-based photo-sharing service. Moreover, the organization…
NFL Draft: Andrew Luck’s 70-Yard Bomb Marks Pro Day
Stanford Quarterback Andrew Luck had an outstanding Pro Day down on The Farm, as he threw 50 passes, completing 46 of them and in conditions that were less than perfect,…
Gold’s Gym Oakland: Kortney Olson FBB Workout
Ever wonder what a hard-core fitness workout looks like? If so, you’ve come to the right place. In this 21 minute video, you are taken through a fitness workout session…
Sears Oakland Downtown Store To Remain Open In 2012 And Beyond
Sears, facing a drop in sales, announced last December it was planning to close 100 to 120 stores. The local media assumed Oakland, Ca would be one of them, and…
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Oakland Should Sue MLB, San Jose, And The Oakland A’s Right Now
The reports are all over that Major League Baseball’s long-delayed report on the Oakland A’s in Oakland, and if they should be given permission to leave Oakland for San Jose,…
3.6 Earthquake Located 1 Mike E of Berkeley, Felt In Oakland at 5:37 AM PDT
This Oakland-based blogger just felt an earthquake that turned out to be centered about 1 mile east of Berkeley and hit at 5:37 AM. The US Geological Survey website reports…
Occupy Oakland Tells City And Media To Fuck Off
Whatever triggered the City of Oakland’s notice for Occupy Oakland / Occupy Wall Street to leave Downtown Oakland’s City Hall Plaza, the organization’s response to the eviction notice on Twitter…
Steve Jobs Dies Of Pancreatic Cancer; Apple Store SF Memorial
It was Mom who called to say that “Steve Jobs died of cancer,” and at the time, this blogger was bound for the gym. Instead, the entire evening schedule of…
San Francisco TransBay Terminal Area Plan Introduction
That the San Francisco TransBay Terminal Area Plan has been released, let alone that the new San Francisco TransBay Terminal is under construction (and forget for the moment Wednesday’s press…
Google+ Suggested User List Is Overwhelmingly White
The older I get the more I exhausted I am of pointing to this problem, but the one sign that the people who do this sort of thing are overwhelmingly…
On The Oakland Tribune, Mayor Quan, and BART’s Linton Johnson
My celebration of the suddenly free “Oakland Tribune” from the hands of the Bay Area New Group, or BANG, both ruffled feathers and gained supporters. One email I received went…
Steve Jobs : Apple CEO Steps Down, Bad For Apple And The SF Bay Area
The news that Apple CEO Steve Jobs is stepping down from his post because he’s, as he put it, “no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO,” is…
Libya Rebels Attack Gaddafi Compound, CNN’s Sara Sidner Reports Fallback
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 will go down as a red-letter day in history, because on this day rebels took over Libya’s capital of Tripoli and stormed the Gaddafi Compound. Along…