SF Bay Area

02 Nov 2021

Hit-and-Run, Alleged Wrong-Way Driver Kills Oakland Woman on Scooter

Police are looking for help to identify a hit-and-run driver who killed a 54-year-old Oakland woman Friday night. The woman, identified as Michelle Marbley, was riding an electric scooter along the 23rd Avenue late Friday night when a vehicle struck her in the intersection at Foothill Boulevard shortly after 10

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02 Nov 2021

Dance Right Into This Week’s Best Events!

Every Tuesday our subscribers get this awesome roundup in their inboxes. You should sign up right here to make sure you never miss a thing. This week is one for all you dance-lovers, from world premieres to live performances to films and DJ dance parties, from hip hop to cumbia

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02 Nov 2021

FLASH GIVEAWAY! We Want to Send You and a Friend to See Ween @ The Fox!

We’re super excited to team up with Another Planet Entertainment to bring you another series of concert ticket giveaways! Last up in this series: we’ve got two pairs of tickets to see Ween at the Fox Theatre on 11/4! This contest ends at midnight tomorrow night, so make sure you

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02 Nov 2021

Marjorie Taylor Greene Bay Area Fundraiser Cancelled

You know Marjorie Taylor Greene. She’s the deranged, freshman Georgia Republican Congresswoman who worships both Trump and QAnon, suggested that the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting was staged, said there’s no evidence a plane crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11, and maintains that wildfires were started by Jewish space lasers. Yeah, she’s a real peach.

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01 Nov 2021

SOMArts Dia de Los Muertos Exhibition Honors Late SF Artists & Latinx People Killed by Police

by Jennifer Modenessi For more than two decades, San Francisco’s SOMArts Cultural Center has been ground zero for one of the Bay Area’s longest-running annual Dia de los Muertos exhibitions. Founded in 1999 by the late artist, curator and community activist René Yañez and now curated by his son, Rio

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31 Oct 2021

Economic Indicators are Mixed as COVID Restrictions are Eased in San Francisco

By Keith Burbank The latest report out Friday on the recovery of the San Francisco economy presents a mix of good and bad as COVID-19 restrictions have been eased by officials. Overall, the city’s economic recovery has been slowed by the Delta variant, but some indicators show things improved in

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29 Oct 2021

The Many Similarities Between San Francisco and New York City

If you’ve ever spent a significant amount of time in San Francisco, CA, and New York City, NY, you may have noticed a large amount of eerie similarities. What makes these two cities, about as far away from each other as they could get in the contiguous United States, so

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29 Oct 2021

Oakland Has the Worst Roads in the United States

Shitty public infrastructure is something that we in the Bay Area have gotten used to. Whether it’s concrete blocks falling from above on the Richmond-San Rafael bridge, large gaps in our public transportation network or power lines that regularly create fiery deathstorms; we’ve generally accepted that taxpayer funded projects in

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