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The Oakland Tribune

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2012

    Mayor Jean Quan Calls on Occupy Wall Street to "Disown" Occupy Oakland

    ​After a weekend of epic chaos that led to more than 400 arrests in downtown Oakland, Mayor Jean Quan says she is going to place a call to New York City -- home of the Occupy Wall Street movement --  to let protesters there know she is really, really sick and tired of Occupy consuming her hom ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2011

    Kids' Letters to Santa Demonstrate Everything Wrong with America Today

    Explore The BruceLike prayer, but secular​This Sunday The Oakland Tribune ran a selection of kids' letters to Santa. Some clever editor or layout person made a point about things by placing the following two letters right on top of each other: Dear Santa, I'm so happy I am saying a hello to you. I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2011

    Oakland Tribune to Move Back to Downtown

    Ironically, don't count on it to give you the correct time​Just two months ago, the Bay Area News Group announced sad news -- it was cutting jobs and consolidating newspapers, delivering most of its content under the name the East Bay Times. However, the media group is now reversing course, saying ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2011

    Harold Camping's Radio Show to Go Off the Air

    His world is falling apart ​The man who erroneously predicted the Rapture -- twice -- will reportedly stop airing his Open Forum radio program at the end of the month. The Evangelical preacher used his Open Forum program to warn listeners about Judgment Day, which was supposed to be May 21, 2011. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 13, 2011

    Harold Camping, Rapture Predictor, Suffers a Stroke

    Camping suffers a stroke​Just as Harold Camping, the man who let us down with his failed Rapture prediction last month, was fading from the news cycle, he resurfaced over the weekend after news broke that the Alameda preacher suffered a stroke. The 89-year-old Evangelical preacher reportedly had a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2011

    Owner of Oakland's Otaez Mexicatessen Killed in Apparent Robbery Attempt

    Ray Chavez/Oakland Tribune, 2000Otaez owner Jesus "Chuy" Campos, fatally shot this morning in Oakland.​The Oakland Tribune is reporting that Jesus Campos, owner of Oakland's Otaez Mexicatessen, was shot and killed this morning in what authorities believe was an attempted robbery. From the Trib ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2011

    Opening Soon: Sweet Jane's and Taco's Sandwiches

    ​ ​The past 72 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Inside Scoop brings word on the future opening of Sweet Jane's (2123 Fillmore), right next to Citizen Cake. The pitch: breakfast-lunch spot run by former pastry chef Amanda Michael. If you ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2010

    Why We Love Justin Bieber, Lil' Kim Spectacle, Willie Brown Drummers

    Lucas Jackson/JustinPictures.org"Why do you love me so much?"​Lil' Kim late to wild S.F. show Monday night, ends up wearing a wedding dress after airline loses her luggage. [SF Gate]Pitchfork interviews "rising" S.F. shoegaze duo Tamaryn. [Pitchfork]Teen fans explain why they love Justin Bieber so ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 9, 2010

    Suspected Looter Leaves Cell Phone in Wrecked Oakland Coffee Shop

    Um... Can I have that back, please?​Not since Gizmodo's famed lost iPhone prototype has a drinks patron had greater reason to regret misplacing a telephone. Well, perhaps "patron" is the wrong word. According to the Oakland Tribune, the owner of a ransacked Jitters & Shakes coffee shop wa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2010

    New Measures Leave Berkeley Poised To Be Detroit of Pot

    Meanwhile, down at the pot factory...​Two new measures encouraging pot-growing warehouses in Berkeley's industrial district and permitting a fourth retail outlet on the city's commercial strips lay the ground for the East Bay city to become to marijuana what Detroit used to be for cars. By the wa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2010

    Wal-Mart of Weed Not Moving into Scharffen Berger Building

    Not in my neighborhood you don'tTake note, Sunset district neighbors wishing to keep pot dealers at bay: why not buy their building out from under them?A Berkeley developer has halted plans for a major West Berkeley marijuana retail outlet by buying the Scharffen Berger Chocolate building at 914 Hei ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2010

    SF Beer Week: Remembering a Local Champion of Craft Brews

    ​From now through the end of SF Beer Week, we're providing daily quarterbacking for the frothiest events. Skol, dudes. SF Beer Week isn't just about celebrating the breadth of beers made and drunk locally, but the community that supports them. Their greatest cheerleader was journalist Bill Br ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2009

    Examiner, MediaNews to Partner on Bay Area Ad Sales Deal

    Media mogul Dean Singleton is again seeking inroads to San Francisco's daily newspaper market, according to a report today in the Denver Business Journal.Will joint ad sales bring happy days back?​Apparently Singleton's MediaNews Group -- owner of legion Bay Area newspapers, including the Oakland ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2009

    Berkeley Students Roll a Fatty

    dailylifeofmojo/FlickrAgain we have to ask: Why?​Food history was made yesterday when a group of U.C. Berkeley students and volunteers made the world's longest California roll in Sproul Plaza. Reports from the Oakland Tribune and San Francisco Chronicle detail hundreds of amateur sushi makers ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2009

    Bay Area News Group East Bay's Newsrooms Just Got a Lot Roomier -- 17 Shown the Door

    http://www.big13.netAnd the time for newsroom layoffs -- is nowAn e-mail ominously titled "staff changes" was moments ago circulated to employees of the Bay Area News Group in the East Bay. Kevin Keane -- the chain's executive editor and the author of the memo -- seems to have the same definition of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2009

    Chronic City: The 'Oaksterdam Model' For Legal Pot In California

    Oaksterdam UniversityWith Oakland broke and growing broker (like many other American cities), calls for the city to get into the growing and selling of medical marijuana are being taken more seriously.The idea seems a lot less crazy when you take a look at the potential revenue to be generated, espe ... More >>

  • News

    March 4, 2009

    What would Clint Reilly do if MediaNews tries to buy the Chronicle?

    Oaksterdam UniversityWith Oakland broke and growing broker (like many other American cities), calls for the city to get into the growing and selling of medical marijuana are being taken more seriously.The idea seems a lot less crazy when you take a look at the potential revenue to be generated, espe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2009

    MediaNews Lawyer Denies Ex-Reporter's Discrimination Claims

    A lawyer for MediaNews Group says the newspaper chain plans to deny allegations of discrimination in a lawsuit filed earlier this month by a former reporter at the Monterey County Herald. Andre Briscoe, a black man who worked at the MediaNews-owned Herald from August 2005 through January 2008, asse ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2009

    Dismissed Reporter Sues MediaNews Group, Alleges Race Discrimination

    A former reporter at the Monterey County Herald has sued the Northern California newspaper and its parent company, MediaNews Group, alleging that he was underpaid and then fired because of his race. MediaNews, headed by press mogul Dean Singleton (pictured), is also a major presence in the Bay Area ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2008

    East Bay Newspapers Rescind Layoffs... Temporarily

    By John Geluardi Bay Area News Group – East Bay) managers have rescinded the eight newsroom layoffs they announced last week after the company’s new union filed a complaint with the National Labors Relations Board. Managers told the eight employees who are part of the bargaining unit that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2008

    East Bay Newspaper Managers Continue to Cut Jobs

    By John Geluardi Bay Area News Group – East Bay) managers have rescinded the eight newsroom layoffs they announced last week after the company’s new union filed a complaint with the National Labors Relations Board. Managers told the eight employees who are part of the bargaining unit that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2008

    Tell Newspaper Reporters What You REALLY Think

    By John Geluardi Bay Area News Group – East Bay) managers have rescinded the eight newsroom layoffs they announced last week after the company’s new union filed a complaint with the National Labors Relations Board. Managers told the eight employees who are part of the bargaining unit that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2008

    San Francisco Chronicle To Cut 125 Positions

    By John Geluardi Bay Area News Group – East Bay) managers have rescinded the eight newsroom layoffs they announced last week after the company’s new union filed a complaint with the National Labors Relations Board. Managers told the eight employees who are part of the bargaining unit that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 4, 2008

    Newspaper Management Strikes Back

    By John Geluardi Bay Area News Group – East Bay) managers have rescinded the eight newsroom layoffs they announced last week after the company’s new union filed a complaint with the National Labors Relations Board. Managers told the eight employees who are part of the bargaining unit that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2008

    Newspaper Union Stirring to Life in the East Bay

    By John Geluardi Bay Area News Group – East Bay) managers have rescinded the eight newsroom layoffs they announced last week after the company’s new union filed a complaint with the National Labors Relations Board. Managers told the eight employees who are part of the bargaining unit that ... More >>

  • News

    March 19, 2008

    Bay Area News Group asks staff to devise a 'NewPaper'

    By John Geluardi Bay Area News Group – East Bay) managers have rescinded the eight newsroom layoffs they announced last week after the company’s new union filed a complaint with the National Labors Relations Board. Managers told the eight employees who are part of the bargaining unit that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 26, 2007

    Hot Comments on SF Weekly — Kings of Commenting

    By John Geluardi Bay Area News Group – East Bay) managers have rescinded the eight newsroom layoffs they announced last week after the company’s new union filed a complaint with the National Labors Relations Board. Managers told the eight employees who are part of the bargaining unit that ... More >>

  • News

    December 19, 2007

    Paper Chase

    The Guild is up against a cost-cutting mogul and declining revenues, but the union continues to seek converts

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2007

    Bruce Springsteen at Oracle Arena Last Night: Mehhh

    The Guild is up against a cost-cutting mogul and declining revenues, but the union continues to seek converts

  • News

    October 24, 2007

    Chauncey Bailey Project Unites Local Media -- Except the Chronicle and the Express

    The Guild is up against a cost-cutting mogul and declining revenues, but the union continues to seek converts

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2007

    Bay Area Journalism: A Little Less U-N-I-T-Y

    The Guild is up against a cost-cutting mogul and declining revenues, but the union continues to seek converts

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2007

    Chauncey Bailey's Killer Confesses

    The Guild is up against a cost-cutting mogul and declining revenues, but the union continues to seek converts

  • News

    February 28, 2007

    Must Work for Free

    By not paying their interns, some Bay Area publications may be violating the state labor code

  • News

    November 29, 2006

    Chron 2.0

    By not paying their interns, some Bay Area publications may be violating the state labor code

  • Calendar

    October 26, 2005

    World's End

    Frank Garvey has a vision

  • News

    May 4, 2005

    Darth Vega to the Rescue

    New Chronicle Publisher Frank Vega has been cast as a villain, but he may be just what the Hearst empire needs to defeat the dark forces of the new economy

  • News

    March 9, 2005

    We'd Like to Buy the Coach a Coke

    Jane Logan and Jackie Ortega are applying the fitness club model to the creative arts

  • Film

    December 11, 2002

    It Should Happen to You

    A suddenly timely doc about terrorism -- plus other S.F. Sundance contenders

  • Music

    December 5, 2001

    Pop Philosophy

    All things must pass.

  • News

    December 13, 2000

    Dog Bites

    Fangxaminer editorial staff; City Hall press room office space

  • Calendar

    July 8, 1998

    Night + Day

    Fangxaminer editorial staff; City Hall press room office space

  • Calendar

    April 23, 1997

    Unspun

    Fangxaminer editorial staff; City Hall press room office space

  • Calendar

    April 2, 1997

    Unspun

    Fangxaminer editorial staff; City Hall press room office space

  • News

    February 19, 1997

    Letters

    Fangxaminer editorial staff; City Hall press room office space

  • Calendar

    February 5, 1997

    Mulch

    Fangxaminer editorial staff; City Hall press room office space

  • Calendar

    January 29, 1997

    Unspun

    Fangxaminer editorial staff; City Hall press room office space

  • Calendar

    October 9, 1996

    Slap Shots

    Fangxaminer editorial staff; City Hall press room office space

  • Calendar

    October 9, 1996

    Unspun

    Fangxaminer editorial staff; City Hall press room office space

  • News

    May 29, 1996

    Final Deadline

    David Burgin is legendary as a rough-and-tumble newspaper editor. But the legend is full of astonishing contradictions, and its last chapter may include the outcome of a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by one of his proteges at the Oakland Tribune.

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