Official OPD crowd estimate of #oaklandmayday Fruitvale march is 500. Seems low to me. Packed shoulder to shoulder on Intl Blvd. 750+? pic.twitter.com/Q1X9GEA8bW
— Doug Sovern (@SovernNation) May 1, 2017
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- Hundreds gathered for an afternoon May Day march in Oakland's Fruitvale District today. Estimates for SF's march were in the thousands. [Twitter] [SFGate]
- The Chronicle profiles Tom Sweeney, who has been a doorman at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel and worn one of those beefeater costumes for 40 years, since he was 19. [Chronicle]
- Here's what Apple's self-driving Lexus SUV looks like, now unleashed in SF. [Bloomberg]
- The San Francisco Mental Health Board is exploring the idea of launching a fleet of mobile Wellness Vans, the idea being that those in acute need of mental health services may benefit from being able to access them faster, and without being hospitalized. [Examiner]
- The man who allegedly abducted his four-month-old daughter from a Mountain View hotel in early April turned himself in Sunday night. [CBS 5]
- The Oscars of the food world, the James Beard Foundation Awards, are happening tonight in Chicago and multiple Bay Area folks are nominated. [Twitter]
- Singapore Airlines to start making SFO-Singapore trip using used cooking-oil-based biofuel. [CBS 5]
- A tractor trailer on fire shut down a couple of westbound lanes of I-580 in Hayward today. [CBS 5]
- The UK [Telegraph] asks if the Summer of Love was "cultural revolution or drug-addled gap year for history's jammiest generation?”
- Relatedly, poet and novelist John Enright recalls his summer of '66 in SF. [Huffington Post]
- One of the oldest public squares in California, Portsmouth Square in Chinatown, is going to be getting a major revamp. [Chronicle]
- One alleged side effect of the mainstreaming on marijuana: more sexual assaults on pot farms. [ABC 7]
- KQED is suing to try to get video recordings of the 2010 Prop 8 trial released to the public. [KQED]
- Behold the “empathy tent” that was set up for protesters of all stripes in Berkeley last week the day of a scheduled appearance by Ann Coulter. [Chronicle]
- The SFPD has reportedly been dropping the ball on elder abuse. [Examiner]
- Here is some more explanation behind that killer whale “killing spree” in Monterey Bay. [AP]
- One of the largest babies ever born in Northern California, weighing in at 13 pounds 11 ounces, was just born in Sacramento. [CBS 5]
- An avocado shortage will be making your Cinco de Mayo guac very pricey. [CBS 5]
- A developer scraped 40,000 Tinder selfies from the Bay Area and uploaded the dataset to machine-learning platform Kaggle, and now Tinder says its terms of service was violated. [TechCrunch]
- Forbes named UC Berkeley America’s best value college. [Forbes]
- AAA just launched a car sharing service, which is like Zipcar but you don’t have to drop the cars off where you picked them up. It's starting in Oakland now, with hopes to come to SF. [TechCrunch]
- While many complained about algorithmic feeds coming to Instagram and Twitter, they are actually great for both companies,TechCrunch argues.
