These Awesome Tiny Houses Were Built for the Homeless
Oakland artist Gregory Kloehn rose to fame in 2011, when he created small homes made out of transformed dumpsters....
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Queer Dance Party Requests White Allies Stay Off the Dance Floor
Sail away, sail away, sail away, sang Oakland queer party Ships In The Night to all the white queers and straight allies....
Oakland Is No Longer 2nd Most Dangerous City in America
The good news: Oakland crime is down (Yay!) Bad news: But so is police morale. Here’s why that matters:...
You Can Keep Your Williamsburg
Today Gawker threw up This is the Williamsburg of Your City: A Map of Hip America and I just threw up in my mouth a little bit....
How Apt is the Oakland-Brooklyn Comparison Anyway?
Smaller, younger, poorer, more diverse, more industrial, less dense, more polluted, less tourist-clogged, cheaper, realer, victimized by snobs, and sitting to the east of “The City.” Is this Oakland vis-à-vis San Francisco, or Brooklyn versus Manhattan?...
Oakland’s Real Issues Covered in Fake Newspaper
You wanna know who’s really gentrifying Oakland? And did you know that Mayor Jean Quan is an aspiring socially conscious hip-hop artist?...
The Price of Living in Oakland Skyrocketed 76%
It’s tough not to get anxious about the price of housing in San Francisco....
East Bay Beer Map
Served only by the liter and just one day a week, the Monkey Head Arboreal Ale makes Triple Rock the place to be on a Thursday night....
The Best Places to Watch Fireworks in the Bay Area
America’s greatest holiday is t̶o̶m̶o̶r̶r̶o̶w̶ today! Grills are firing up, the sun is out, party plans are being finalized, and most of us won’t be worried about getting up for work tomorrow....
Best Parties for Girls Who Like Girls
The Dyke March, the high-holiest of all lesbian events, is on the horizon. On Saturday, June 29, Dolores Park will be filled with lesbians from all over the world....
How I Came to Love Living in Oakland
When I graduated from UC Berkeley in the spring of 2012, I was eager to start what I had imagined would be my new “adult” life in the city....
This Restaurant Only Has Two Tables and Is in a Sketchy Area, But It’s SOOOO GOOD
With little signage out front and a black screen door that is regularly locked, sometimes it’s hard to discern if Masala Cuisine — a tiny Indian restaurant on a somewhat dodgy stretch of International Blvd. in East Oakland — is open....