Zainab Bansfield, 24, wears a sash reading “Miss Zendaya” after winning the Zendaya look-alike contest at Wilma Chan Park in Oakland on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024.From a dance contest to trivia and a runway showdown, Oakland’s Zendaya look-alike contest at Wilma Chan Park on Nov. 20 celebrated more than just finding a doppelgänger. Event organizers aimed to crown a winner who embodied Zendaya’s multi-hyphenate spirit.
Protesters gather near a Secret Service blockade close to Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi’s home in San Francisco during a demonstration against the Israel-Hamas war on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. After touching down in Marine One in San Francisco, President Joe Biden and Pelosi were scheduled to attend fundraiser.
Daniel Vasquez, left, and son Isaiah Vasquez, 5, enjoy Isaiah’s first A's game against Cleveland Guardians at the Oakland Coliseum on Thursday, March 28, 2024. For baseball lovers, Opening Day is usually a day filled with excitement and hope as the Major League Baseball season begins.
But for many local fans of the soon-to-be former Oakland Athletics, this latest chapter of the franchise’s existence isn’t worth celebrating. Hundreds of people staged a boycott of the game in the Oakland Coliseum parking lot as team officials and owner John Fisher continue with plans to move the team to Las Vegas.
District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, center, speaks at the intersection of 9th Avenue and Irving Street in San Francisco on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. Mayor London Breed joined Police Chief Bill Scott, District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, Sheriff Paul Miyamoto, San Francisco Board of Supervisors Myrna Melgar, and Joel Engardio joined business leaders and members of the community to announce the City's plan to install 400 Automated License Plate Readers (ALPR) at approximately 100 intersections across San Francisco.
Cars drive past the intersection of Geary Boulevard and Fillmore Street in San Francisco on Friday, March 22, 2024. The intersection has long been considered a dividing line between Japantown and the historically black Fillmore neighborhood, a relic of the 20th-century highway program that bulldozed housing in the area.
Vencel Tigue, a designer, sews a pair of pants at the new Holy Stitch storefront on Market Street in San Francisco on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. Holy Stitch, a nonprofit sewing organization, is opening a permanent home in the mid-Market area that will include a retail, manufacturing, and design shop.