Port of Oakland

Stream the Coup's Incendiary New Album, Sorry to Bother You, Right Now

After a fiery new video for first single "the Guillotine" and that thumping set at last week's Treasure Island festival, we're pretty excited for the new album from Oakland rap-funk outfit The Coup. Sorry to Bother You isn't out until Oct. 30, but you can stream the whole thing now over at the A.V. ... More >>

Wild Old Women Breathe New Life into the Occupy Movement

Courtesy of occupybernal.orgWild takes on a whole new meaning when you are 80​Last week we regaled readers with a story about a small group of seniors who successfully shut down a Bank of America in Bernal Heights -- a tale that seems to have re-energized San Francisco's Occupy movement. Since the ... More >>

Oakland Tribune Afraid of Losing Even More Subscribers to Occupy Oakland Tribune

Making news is one way to increase your readership​In a fun twist of irony, the Oakland Tribune newspaper is attempting to quash the freedom of speech of another local news outlet, with a cease and desist order sent earlier this week.According to writers at the newly established activist paper, th ... More >>

Occupy Oakland: New Camp Pops Up in West Oakland

​Just a short month after being uprooted and cleared out by police, Occupy protesters have reportedly pitched tents again as part of a new camp established late Tuesday night in West Oakland. Was it something we said?The Oakland Tribune reports already more than a dozen tents are occupying the new ... More >>

Bouncer Talks Occupy with The Man at Sutter Station

Bouncer Finds That Even The Man Supports Occupy (Well, Sorta)

​From this week's Bouncer column: I like bars for the same reason I like Facebook: I can come face-to-face (literally and metaphorically) with people who have different opinions than I do. When I was growing up in the middle of Illinois, liberals were hard to come by, so I couldn't wait to h ... More >>

Watch: Mike Baker the Bike Maker Issues a Creepy Ode to You-Know-What on "Legs"

Just another Wednesday afternoon in Oakland...​ Isn't it skeezy to sing an entire song about how much you like ladies' legs? Honor Roll Crew member and NYC-via-East Bay rapper Mike Baker the Bike Maker apparently doesn't care -- he enlisted pals Trackademicks and 1-O.A.K. for this simmering ap ... More >>

Occupy Protesters Clear Port of Oakland This Morning

​Port workers began lining up at 5 a.m. today, ready to get back to work after demonstrators managed to close the nation's fifth-busiest port as part of a massive West Coast effort to shake up the 1 percent. Only it wasn't the 1 percent they were necessarily interrupting. According to the Port of ... More >>

Occupy Oakland: Protesters Block Port of Oakland

Kate CongerAnd it's not even 8 a.m.!​Update (8:05 a.m.): It's started to rain, but that's not deterring this group. A handful of protesters carrying an Occupy UC Davis banner has walked further into the port. Original Story (7:06 a.m.): As expected, hundreds of Occupy Oakland protesters have march ... More >>

Life-Size Pepper Spray Cop Cutout Lets You Be Lt. Pike

Kate Conger​At the Port of Oakland this morning, our intrepid photographer Kate Conger caught the next evolution of that as-seen-on-the-Internet pepper-spray cop meme. This cardboard cutout is a brilliant reversal. Instead of you 'shopping Lt. Pike of U.C. Davis into your photos, now you can ... More >>

Occupy Movement to Shut Down West Coast Ports

​Even if police have cleared most Occupy encampments across the nation, the movement is still very much alive. According to Occupy Oakland, more protesters up and down the West Coast have joined in the effort to shut down the ports and disrupt the 1 percent on Dec. 12. According to Occupy Oakland: ... More >>

Occupy Oakland: Peaceful Protest Turns Chaotic, Several Hospitalized

Erin Sherbert​Yesterday's general strike in Oakland -- which shut down the port -- ended in a late-night violent (and costly) scene in downtown with fires, arrests, and injuries. It started at about 11 p.m., when a group of masked vandals began smashing windows and set blazes throughout downtown. ... More >>

Oakland Dogpiles on Mayor Jean Quan

Mayor Jean Quan has had better days ​Now that she has somewhat placated Occupy Oakland protesters, Mayor Jean Quan is pissing off police and the business community. Like a mother with rivaling children, Quan is stuck trying to balance the demands of both police and protesters as the city braces fo ... More >>

Occupy Oakland Shuts Down Port

Erin Sherbert​Update (8:20 p.m.): Thousands of protesters marched from downtown to the Port of Oakland where they blocked terminals, stopping traffic and shutting down the port. With almost no police officers in sight, the march seemed more like a festival, with people dancing in the streets, chan ... More >>

Fresh Eats

Our weekly roundup of SFoodie news

BART Oakland Airport Connector Gets More Expensive

Pretty -- and pretty costly​A controller's memo sent to BART officials yesterday warned that constructing the controversial $484 million Oakland Airport Connector will drain millions more away from the system's general fund than previously believed. BART's failure to secure a $105 million Transpor ... More >>

Freed Willy: A Musical Tribute to the Ocean Beach Whale

​It's been a rough summer for whales in the Bay Area. A humpback died near the Farallon Islands in July, a cargo ship killed a minke whale near the Port of Oakland last week, and yesterday a dead 35-footer washed up on Ocean Beach between Kirkham and Lawton. Leviathan, we hardly knew ye! Let's o ... More >>

Bay Area Recyclers Spew Toxins, Enviros Say

​Automobile recycling, billed as a "green" industry, is actually a poorly regulated polluter that produces dangerous toxic waste, according to a new report by an East Bay environmental group."It's not as bad as third-world computer scrapping, but it's close," said Denny Larson, who runs a nonprofi ... More >>

Dead Whale Washes Up on Ocean Beach (PICS)

Stoke ReportPoor surfing -- and a dead whale​Continuing a rough spell for our Cetacean brethren, a large dead whale was today spotted on Ocean Beach. The whale -- which at least appears to have been dead for some time -- washed up between Kirkham and Lawton. This is the third dead whale spotted in ... More >>

Feds Indict Fisherman's Wharf Merchants For Selling Fake Louis Vuittons

No, you didn't get a real, $5 Louis Vuitton...​In what is being billed as the largest takedown of retailers of designer fakes on the West Coast, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement busted a slew of Fisherman's Wharf merchants for allegedly smuggling and trafficking in fake Oakley, Nike, A ... More >>

BART Approves Oakland Airport Connector, Punts on Unpopular Fare Rollback

The project that just won't die ... won't die​BART's board today tabled the vote on the fare rollback no one wants and approved the Oakland Airport Connector no one needs. By an 8-1 vote, the board approved the revamped $483 million connector project, which was dealt a staggering blow when ... More >>

Labor groups to picket Israeli ship to protest May 31 raid deaths

Not in Oakland you're not...​Bay Area labor groups plan to picket the Israeli container ship, Zim Shenzhen, June 20 when it is scheduled to arrive at 5:30 am in the port of Oakland, said local longshoreman Jack Heyman."South Africa, Norway, Sweden, are going to be following suit," Heyman said. "Th ... More >>

The Best Crane Photos You May See All Day

At around 9:05 this morning, a trio of massive crane fresh from the factory in Shanghai passed beneath the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges -- with a Lebron James vertical leap of room to spare. SF Weekly's favorite floating photographer, Gabor Gardonyi, was there. A tugboat chef who moonlights as an ace ... More >>

In environmental terms, Cash for Clunkers is a jalopy

Car Alarm

After saying for decades that treated "shredder waste" from junked cars and old appliances was safe, state regulators now admit it isn't.

Junk in the Trunk

Donating your old car to charity may make you feel good, but it doesn't necessarily create a net benefit for the environment.

John Burton’s Murky Role in Perata Probe

ILWU to Shut Down West Coast Ports on Socialist Holiday

Daly City Man Accused of Stealing $10,000 Worth of Le Corona

Oil Spill Alert -- Bay Ships Getting Bigger, Ports To Get Busier

Last Voyage of the Relentless

Friends and family of a well-known fishing captain are convinced he and his deckhand were victims of a maritime hit-and-run near the Golden Gate

Tricksters

The Globetrotters dribble into town

Shaky Ground

Environmental activists adopt a new strategy -- playing the race card

Night Crawler

Night Crawler

PG&E Is All Charged Up

The S.F.-based utility embarks on a nationwide buying spree

Ship Happens

"Traffic," Bar Pilot Donald Hughes barks. "I need some help." The tanker Mundogas Europe has just lost her steering beneath the Golden Gate Bridge, and if the anhydrous ammonia she's carrying hits the water a toxic cloud could cloak San Francisco. A di