Magic Fig explores the outer limits—San Francisco prog/psych/pop band layers sounds into an iridescent landscape.

Samier Ayesh was shot to death outside the East Oakland Dollar & More convenience store on June 10, 2010. Earlier that evening, Samier Ayesh and his brothers Adham, Awad, and Samey were getting ready ...

On Sunday night, a white Oakland resident called the Oakland Police Department on a small group of Black and Latino drummers by Lake Merritt, resulting in multiple citations and sparking extensive ...

The earthquakes that rocked Kern County in early July are a potent reminder of the East Bay’s own seismic risk. Last year, the U.S. Geological Survey imagined what could happen during a 7.0 quake on ...

I got kicked out of a public, federal immigration court hearing yesterday because I’m a newspaper reporter. And it wasn’t the judge who wanted me to leave. It was the Immigration and Customs ...

Larry Chin in 1994. On March 4, 1994, Onipede pulled his Hyundai into the courtyard of an apartment complex at 530 24th Street in Oakland. He was here on business: A man named Larry Chin had just ...

The first time Alan Lucchesi ever heard the sound of a stray bullet was in 2002, when one came whizzing up the street about five feet from his head. It was sometime in the middle of the night, and ...

Gentrification isn’t just the physical remaking of a neighborhood. A key part of the process is the renaming of spaces to make them more appealing for affluent newcomers. Very often this results in ...

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.

Alonzo Carter pulled up to McClymonds High School in his burgundy and peanut-butter-colored drop-top ’87 Corvette. As he stepped out, wearing black knee-high leather boots, a leather jacket, and no ...

At the back end of a two-acre nursery lot in Oakland’s Sobrante Park neighborhood, where 105th Avenue dead-ends into Highway 880 and Lisjan Creek (otherwise known as San Lorenzo Creek) twists north on ...

By most measures, Oakland swim coach Ben Sheppard was well-liked and well-respected. As the head coach of the Oakland Undercurrent swim team and the executive director of the Oakland Community Pools ...