The California Supreme Court agreed yesterday to hear arguments challenging the constitutionality of Prop. 8, but refused to let gay people wed while the case is pending, the Chron reports. At issue: ...

Blood & Money Part One: The Violence Olasunkanmi Onipede should know a little something about torture. An immigrant from Nigeria, he left behind a country that by 1994 had fallen under the iron hand ...

While the Probation Department is choosing to detain only the highest-risk offenders, budget pressures in Oakland are preventing the city’s juvenile offenders — who make up half the population of ...

Oakland is once again in an uproar over a fatal police shooting of an African-American man. In 2007, it was Gary King Jr. In 2009, it was Oscar Grant. In 2010, it was Derrick Jones. In 2011, it was ...

To Oakland’s fire inspectors, the Ghost Ship warehouse really was invisible: The extremely dangerous building sailed unseen for years, evading fire-safety inspectors until it burned on Friday night.

In theory, the Oakland Police Department and the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office are supposed to investigate allegations of misconduct and hold law-enforcement personnel accountable for ...

For forty years, the Bay Area Consortium for Quality Health Care, a private nonprofit, has provided medical services to low-income and uninsured people at sites in Oakland and Berkeley. With public ...

When Sarah Treem was 27, her play, A Feminine Ending, was ridiculed by New York Times critic Charles Isherwood. Isherwood began his review by suggesting that the central character’s name, Amanda Blue, ...

When Alice Woo and Alan Chun moved from Southern California to the Bay Area, one of the things they missed most was the Korean tacos popularized by Los Angeles food-truck pioneer Roy Choi in the late ...

There’s been less talk about and focus on “self-care” since everyone emerged back into the busy world post-pandemic. But it’s worth considering that self-care is even more important now, as people ...

There was no red carpet outside the Landmark Shattuck Cinema last Thursday, but the lobby contained the frenzied excitement of a movie premiere. A crowd of huddled teens and twentysomethings nearly ...

In Alex Abramovich’s new book, Bullies: A Friendship, Trevor Latham, president of Oakland’s East Bay Rats Motorcycle Club, destroys a bus stop on Telegraph Avenue with a large ax. Glass shatters ...