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Hayward

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2012

    Derrick Jackson Identified as Man Killed by BART Train

    Medical authorities have identified the man who was killed while standing on the train tracks Saturday afternoon as 41-year-old Derrick Jackson of Hayward. According to BART, Jackson was on the Glen Park Station tracks for unknown reasons when he was struck by a train headed toward the East Bay. The ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2012

    5 Summer Food Fests Worth The Drive

    Okay, so you slept on the Castroville Artichoke Festival. Don't worry, there are still some fantastic food festivals left to tackle this summer in the greater Bay Area. Every road trip should be planned around good food, but why not plan a day trip where eating the best produce from the region that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2012

    Derryck A. King, Suspected Purse-Snatcher, Shot at by Police

    San Francisco police shot at a man who was attempting to rob a 30-year-old woman as she walked through the city's Financial District late last night. According to Sgt. Michael Andraychak, officers were coming from another call about about 10:40 p.m. when they heard a woman scream. The cops saw ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2012

    Police Need Your Help in Finding Men Responsible for Brutal Beating in Civic Center

    ​San Francisco police are looking for three men who savagely beat a 23-year-old Hayward man, kicking and punching him until he fell to the pavement. The cops have released these photos of the identified suspects, who have been on the lam since the Jan. 29 assault. According to police, at about 2 a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2012

    Cookies in The Shape of Pirates -- or Your Face

    ​Based in Hayward, Parker's Crazy Cookies sells vanilla-flavored cookies around the Bay Area (here's a list of retailers). Parker's sells a wide variety of cookie themes representing holidays, religion (Star of David), politics (Barack Obama), and even the Golden Gate Bridge. We're partial to the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2012

    Joseph Minozzi Identified as Man Stabbed to Death

    ​The Medical Examiner identified 30-year-old Joseph Minozzi as the man who was stabbed to death early Thursday morning in San Francisco's SOMA neighborhood.At about 2:40 a.m. on Thursday, Minozzi, a Hayward resident, was found bleeding on the corner of Sixth and Stevenson streets from multiple sta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2011

    Another Earthquake Rocks the East Bay

    That's kinda what it felt like ​It's been a tough week to try and get some sleep in Oakland -- amid the downtown protests, tear gas, helicopters circling, and earthquakes.A 3.6 quake rattle the East Bay at about 5:36 a.m., causing buildings to sway and bringing public transit to a screeching halt. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2011

    Twin Earthquakes Shake the Bay Area, Is the "Big One" Next?

    You thought yesterday's quakes were scary ... ​Two nearly identical quakes along the Hayward fault jolted the Bay Area yesterday, which naturally has everyone thinking, "Is this foreshadowing the Big One?"A 3.9 magnitude earthquake shook the East Bay at about 2:41 p.m. yesterday. No damages were r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2011

    Andrew Vargas Arrested in Hit-and-Run That Critically Injures 9-Year-Old Boy

    Pedestrian hit​Update 1:45 p.m.: Police said they arrested 21-year-old Andrew Vargas on suspicion of driving under the influence. He has been booked on felony charges for hit and run.  Read more after the jump. Hayward police detained the driver they believe hit a San Francisco boy last night ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2011

    Michelle Le Update: Police Tell TV Station to Check Its Facts

    The fact is ... Le is still missing​A San Diego television station added a new twist to the mysterious case of Michelle Le, the 26-year-old nursing student who went missing last month. The station reported yesterday that two phone calls were made from Le's cell phone shortly after she went missing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2011

    Summer Food Festivals, Product Placement, and the Mysteries of Meal Snap

    ​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. Mark your summer calendar. Every year I swear I'm going to make it to events like the Fiesta Filipina and the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral's Taste of Greece but always fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 13, 2011

    Fewer Slices of Pie, Cupola Opens Under the Dome, and the TL Sees Pink

    The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Marie Callender's evokes images of pies rotating in a display case, country cottage decor, and portions that don't skimp on calories. And now, without warning, many of those pie display cases have gone da ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2011

    Michelle Le Update: Missing Student Case Now a Homicide Investigation

    Michelle Le was set to graduate from nursing school next year​UPDATE: Police are now telling reporters that all signs point to homicide in the case of Michelle Le, the missing nursing student. Police released as statement, saying after extensive interviews and forensic investigations of her abando ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2011

    Good Old-Fashioned Food Fight at East Bay High School Makes Headlines

    Gross but safe fun​It was innocent fun -- a flashback to the good 'ol days in high school. You know, when kids weren't shooting each other for no reason. Still, the senior class at Leadership High School in Hayward are in big trouble after a group of teens started a food fight that escalated in th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2011

    Saturday Report: Where to Go on Day 2 of Beer Week

    bittermelon/FlickrSo many beers, so few hours.​Saturday, Feb. 12 ​It's Day Two. The gloves are off, and the beer beckons. If you're not venturing to Hayward for the 11th Annual Double IPA Festival, local options abound. Ease into your weekend Saturday with an afternoon happy hour of exc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2011

    SF Police Arrest Teen in Connection with Mission District Shooting

    aim, fire, and arrested​Just seven hours after a shooting erupted on a Mission District corner, police quickly arrested a Hayward teen accused of pulling the trigger. At about 9:40 a.m., two men got off a Muni bus at the corner of 16th and Folsom streets and got into an argument with a group of Af ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2011

    High-tech Thieves Jury Rigged Gas Pumps to Steal Customers' Identities

    ​A pair of MacGyver-esque identity thieves has pleaded guilty to implanting devices in gas pumps that stole customers' checking-account information, a scheme that state officials say brought in $90,000.The California Attorney General's office announced today that the men -- David Karapetyan and Zh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2010

    Bay Area Police Officers Shoot Four Suspects in Less than Two Days

    ​There has been a series of officer-involved shootings in the Bay Area since late Tuesday night, when a San Jose Police officer's shoot-out with an alleged robber set off a spate of four armed confrontations between cops and suspects.Since then we have seen the fatal shooting of: 46-year-old Vinh ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 15, 2010

    The Teenage Dance Craze New Year's Eve Twist Party

    ​There has been a series of officer-involved shootings in the Bay Area since late Tuesday night, when a San Jose Police officer's shoot-out with an alleged robber set off a spate of four armed confrontations between cops and suspects.Since then we have seen the fatal shooting of: 46-year-old Vinh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2010

    Benjamin Powell, Jonathan Johnson Killed in Ingleside Crash

    ​The San Francisco Medical Examiner's office has identified the two men killed in an Ingleside car crash this morning as Hayward resident Benjamin Powell and Castro Valley resident Jonathan Johnson. Both were 18 years old.The car carrying Powell and Johnson apparently crashed into a utility pole o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2010

    Pepper-Spray Robbery Suspects Nabbed

    Much like that ... except the bear was subsequently robbed​Police have arrested five suspects in the wake of a spate of robberies via pepper spray that took place in the city last week. Five different pepper spray robberies were reported on Wednesday and Thursday nights throughout the city. The Sa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2010

    Local Soccer Stars Crack Elite FIFA List

    We can find no fault with Marta​FC Gold Pride, certainly the first professional sporting team based out of Hayward, set another mark last month. It hosted the first professional sporting championship ever set in Hayward -- and won it, 4-0. Now  a trio of Gold Pride starters have cracked the s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2010

    Hear That Siren? Did Your Train Stop? It was the 'Shake-Out' Freak-Out.

    Fiona MaFiona Ma is into it​San Franciscans without clock or calendar can set their internal timing devices by the weekly emergency sirens, which test every Tuesday at noon. Other than the Tuesday test, these blare only when an earthquake or other disaster is at hand (just having your home or offi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2010

    'Ponytail Bandits' -- Three Rodriguez Brothers -- To Be Charged, Arraigned

    Tails, you lose​The "Ponytail Bandits" -- a group of young Hispanic men suspected of five armed robberies in one night -- will likely be arraigned today, police tell SF Weekly. The men, who earned their nickname from police due to their distinctive appearances, were arrested Sunday when officers n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2010

    Women's Pro Soccer Championship Sunday -- In Hayward

    Just who's No. 1 will be determined this weekend -- in Hayward​In what is, without the shadow of a doubt, the first professional sports championship game played in Hayward, the Bay Area's FC Gold Pride and Philadelphia Independence will face off for the Women's Pro Soccer crown on Sunday. The game ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2010

    High Times Cannabis Cub Rehash: Buy the Green Door's Candy Jack; HopeNet's Hash is Too Strong

    Who wants some?​They shut down the hash bar.High Times shut down HopeNet's hash bar. SF, your hash is too much for High Times (or at least its legal handlers).

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2010

    Hayward Votes Tonight on Citywide Marijuana Dispensary Kibosh

    ​Although California's Attorney General and judges have recently been loosening the legal reins on medical marijuana users, the debate over whether dispensaries have a place in our cities remains a hot-button issue around the state. This is particularly true in Los Angeles, but also in Hayward -- ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 1, 2009

    Fighting to Work

    ​Although California's Attorney General and judges have recently been loosening the legal reins on medical marijuana users, the debate over whether dispensaries have a place in our cities remains a hot-button issue around the state. This is particularly true in Los Angeles, but also in Hayward -- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2009

    Sweet Beat: Caterer Launches Dessert Shop; Takeout Lunch Business to Follow

    It's a crappy time for caterers. Even if you had the money, this isn't exactly the moment for corporate caviar bars and sushi served on the flesh of live models (ah, the things we've seen). That accounts for Kitchenette, LRE Catering's lunch-off-the-loading-dock concept in Dogpatch. And it explains ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2009

    Drink of the Week: Tangawisi from Soleil's African Kitchen

    Chef Soleil Banguid channels flavor memories of growing up in Brazzaville (capital of the Republic of Congo in Central Africa) onto the menu of his Hayward catering business, Soleil's African Kitchen (510-228-6747). His Tangawisi is a ginger drink based on a time-honored Congolese recipe for good he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2009

    East Bay Laborer Alleges Union Corruption in Federal Lawsuit

    A complaint arrivesAs journalists, we hate to admit it, but San Francisco isn't exactly a hotbed of political-corruption scandals. (Local political observers say there are a few reasons for this silver lining, which is amply clouded by the city's general dysfunction and ideology-driven policy blunde ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 29, 2009

    SF Beer Week, Feb. 6-15

    Beer geeks from all over the world are heading to SF for ten days of tasting, guzzling, and chugging.

  • Calendar

    September 24, 2008

    The Rocks-y Theater

    Beer geeks from all over the world are heading to SF for ten days of tasting, guzzling, and chugging.

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2007

    Hayward Fault Ready to Rock the East Bay, Nerds Warn Today at Moscone

    Beer geeks from all over the world are heading to SF for ten days of tasting, guzzling, and chugging.

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2007

    Peru Quake, Wu-Tang, Flashers, and Murder Maps: Bay Area News Headlines 8.16.07

    Beer geeks from all over the world are heading to SF for ten days of tasting, guzzling, and chugging.

  • Music

    February 21, 2007

    Tel Aviv brothers bring the beats

    Beer geeks from all over the world are heading to SF for ten days of tasting, guzzling, and chugging.

  • Music

    December 6, 2006

    Mixtape Shmixtape

    Wherein we review Yay Area mixtapes of the day

  • Summer Guide

    June 23, 2004

    Festivals and Fairs

    Wherein we review Yay Area mixtapes of the day

  • News

    March 17, 2004

    A Bridge Too Weak?

    A UC Berkeley professor believes the unique new Bay Bridge design is fatally flawed

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 14, 2003

    Best Way to Shop in This Lousy Economy

    A UC Berkeley professor believes the unique new Bay Bridge design is fatally flawed

  • Calendar

    April 30, 2003

    Giant Expectations

    Hometown showdown between Felipe and Dusty

  • News

    March 5, 2003

    Industrial Nightmare

    How San Francisco planners, in trying to save S.F.'s dwindling industrial base, would hamstring the city's economic future

  • News

    August 1, 2001

    Rubble With a Mortgage

    What could be worse than a devasting earthquake in the Bay Area? The day after, when we all realize that no one is covered by insurance.

  • News

    February 14, 2001

    The Battle for Walpert Ridge

    A lawsuit over a proposed Hayward country club promises to be more than just another environmentalists-vs.-developers fight

  • News

    March 3, 1999

    Dog Bites

    A lawsuit over a proposed Hayward country club promises to be more than just another environmentalists-vs.-developers fight

  • News

    October 29, 1997

    Megan's Law Goes to Class

    Schools plan to tell parents where sex offenders live; is it caution or hysteria?

  • News

    November 6, 1996

    Seismic Punt

    UC ignores its own engineering report on shoring up the Golden Bears' stadium, but the fans don't care

  • Calendar

    September 11, 1996

    The Grid

    UC ignores its own engineering report on shoring up the Golden Bears' stadium, but the fans don't care

  • News

    November 8, 1995

    Senses Working Overtime

    From Audium to the Wave Organ and Ye Olde Pizza Joynt, little-known local sites turn music into an assault on all the senses

  • Music

    June 14, 1995

    Samples

    From Audium to the Wave Organ and Ye Olde Pizza Joynt, little-known local sites turn music into an assault on all the senses

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