Playwright/performer Jacob Ming-Trent's ‘How Shakespeare Saved My Life’ rocks the Rep.

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: ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The fun usually slinks away to die in places like San Francisco City Hall Room 416 — its grave demarcated by bland fluorescent lighting, cheap wood paneling, and expensive three-piece suits. But 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 ...

What is it with Oakland City Council candidates who can’t manage their own money, but are convinced they should manage ours? Last month, we told you about the checkered financial and legal past of ...

Daniel “Lizard” Hernandez was awakened by an FBI agent at 4 a.m. a few weeks ago. Time to go, the agent said. We’re moving your ass. “I was all ready to go,” Lizard recalled later. “I wanted to get ...

Richard Poe, a wealthy and politically active developer, walked up to the podium at a recent Richmond City Council meeting with his wife and three-year-old son in tow. While Poe’s son did his best to ...

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 ...