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Pastiche Is King at Oakland’s Crazy Block Cheesecakes

Get your secondhand dopamine high between bites of smoked beef ribs and latkes.

Soleil Ho Sep 15, 2025

Power

SF Streamlined Its Street Teams. Now, Fewer People Are Getting the Help They Need

Street medicine outreach workers describe a new, expensive, and disorganized program that lacks clear objectives.

Nuala Bishari Sep 15, 2025

Culture

Where Did All the Abandoned A’s Elephants Go?

A scrappy group of Oaklanders have built a “sanctuary” for the sculptures that the A’s left behind.

Alan Chazaro Sep 15, 2025

Alan Chazaro is a traveling Bay Area dad and writer currently based in Veracruz, Mexico. His forthcoming poetry collection, These Spaceships Weren't Built For Us, will be published with Tia Chucha Press in 2026.

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Two statues depict an anthropomorphic elephant in baseball gear. The one in the foreground is painted with cartoon animals and the text, "We can do this!" "Where-o-where is Stomper?"

Culture

Where Did All the Abandoned A’s Elephants Go?

A scrappy group of Oaklanders have built a “sanctuary” for the sculptures that the A’s left behind.

Alan Chazaro Sep 15, 2025