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.

When I was 12 years old, I left Oakland for a small town on the southern edge of the Carquinez Strait. The towering buildings of Oakland and neighboring San Francisco were replaced by the smokestacks of refineries.  The East Bay is primarily defined by Oakland and Berkeley, but there is

There’s only one thing I love more than fried chicken: Filipino Fried Chicken, and luckily there’s about to be a lot more Filipino Fried Chicken in the Bay because Jollibee is coming to Alameda. Which is great. Alameda deserves delicious fried chicken, but one city remains free of Jollibee’s chickenjoy,

When I first heard that $800 million dollars of land was purchased completely encircling Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, I can’t lie, the first thing I thought was, “oh China or Russia is trolling us.” But the reality is much worse: Silicon Valley is going dumpster diving… IN MY

If you don’t live in Solano County, it’s easy to forget that it exists. It’s a sprawling mess of suburbia that stretches from the northeastern edge of the Bay to the inland interior of the Sacramento Valley. If any part of Northern California could be considered fly-over country, Solano County

This statement may surprise you, but Vallejo was fucked up before the San Francisco Chronicle and The New Yorker told you it was.  Before recent reporting began talking about the Vallejo Police Department’s ‘murder clique’, Vallejo suffered an insanely high rate of police misconduct and killings. While media attention and