Outside Lands is back after a long hiatus, 2020 was the first year Outside Lands was cancelled since the festival began in 2008.  Now the music is back this Halloween weekend and punters are excited about seeing Lizzo, The Strokes, Tyler the Creator, Tame Impala, and much much more (see

The Vallejo born, Bay Area rap mogul, E-40, aka Charlie Hustle, aka 40-Watter, aka Earl Stevens has started a sausage company.  That’s a real sentence, that you just read. 40’s new Vallejo-based sausage company ‘Goon With The Spoon‘ did not pay us to rep them, we just love 40’s bravado

Dave Chappelle has complained about “cancel culture” disrupting the rollout of his “Untitled” documentary, but at least one venue in San Francisco has agreed to host a screening and live performance.  According to a press release shared Friday, the Chase Center will screen the film and host the comedian for

PG&E had restored power to all but 7,387 Bay Area customers just before noon Tuesday. That number is fairly impressive when you consider that about 140,000 customers across the region were without power at a single point Sunday afternoon. PG&E spokesman Jason King said Monday that somewhere around 646,000 Bay

San Francisco Mayor London Breed and actor Edward Norton on Friday helped the city’s oldest brewery launch a new water recycling system — capable of saving the city 20 million gallons of water per year. The historic Anchor Brewing Company is set to begin using a new water reuse system

A grand jury in San Francisco has charged a man with 10 felonies in connection with the Feb. 6 carjacking of a delivery driver’s vehicle and kidnapping the driver’s two children who were inside. German Morazan was indicted Wednesday in federal court on a dozen charges, including multiple counts of

Lynsi Snyder is a fascinating character, one part Paris Hilton, one part Stephanie McMahon, and one part born-again hellraiser.  Snyder’s been married four times, had four children, opened dozens of restaurants, started a band, a non-profit focused on addiction,  and successfully evaded two kidnapping attempts, all before the age of 40.

Thirty years ago today was pretty unremarkable in the East Bay. It was a breezy Saturday, hot by Oakland’s standards at about 83 degrees. By all accounts, it was a beautiful day to be out. We didn’t know then that there was a monster lying in wait.  There had been