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SF News /Andrew Dalton

Day Around the Bay

Published Aug 24, 2011 · 10:15 AM PDT


  • Well-loved and respected local housing rights activist Eric Quezada passed away early this morning. [TheSnitch]

  • A 23-year-old San Francisco man fell to his death while hiking alone on Half Dome in Yosemite on Monday. It was the 17th death in Yosemite this season. [KTVU]

  • A 7.0 earthquake struck in northern Peru near the border with Brazil today. It was deep (90 miles) and no major damage has been reported yet. Seriously, Planet Earth?

  • The Bay Area News Group is laying off 120 staffers and scaling back by combining newspapers. The Oakland Tribune, a 137-year-old paper, will soon become the "The East Bay Tribune" and several peninsula papers will be folded in to the San Jose Mercury News. [KTVU] [BayCitizen]

  • Caffe Roma on Columbus is causing some parklet problems. [GrubStreetSF]

  • How many BART protesters got up for this morning's board meeting at 9 a.m. in Oakland? Just 14, says one Bay Citizen reporter who attended. [@ZushaElinson]

  • Here's a humorous photo from this morning's BART board meeting. [@Jamesco]

  • Curbed presents The People's Guide to the Inner Sunset. [CurbedSF]

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