• Kamala Harris visits SF's Chinatown to discuss everything from her slip in the polls to Trump's impeachment scandal. The California Senator — who also sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee — said to a crowd at the Manilatown Center at the International Hotel that her main purpose for the visit was to “listen to the Asian American community.” [KRON 4]
  • For the second time in six months, a San Jose church was robbed. A trailer filled with $12,000 worth of camping gear belonging to the Boy Scouts Troop 262 was taken from Almaden Hills United Methodist Church earlier this week, the second time since March; the church is currently taking donations on their website to help replace the lost items. [ABC 7]
  • Bay Area gas prices continue to soar. San Francisco filling stations now boast the highest gas prices seen in some time, due, in part, to problems with the state's oil refineries. [KPIX/CBS SF]
  • 37-year-old Lonnel Moore of Oakland was convicted on human-trafficking charges this week. Moore was arrested after bringing a 15-year-old girl from Stockton back to Oakland’s “infamous” International Boulevard to perform sexual acts. [NBC Bay Area]
  • Berkeley residents band together to stop a youth-centered homeless shelter from taking root in the city. In a city council meeting this past week, a proposal to allow a 30-bed homeless shelter for struggling youth, which would sit near King and 62nd Street, was met with opposition from a handful of neighbors. [Mercury News]
  • A carport in San Jose is currently on the market for $400 a month...sleeper-sofa, and all. [KRON 4]
  • Local landscape designer and architect Walter Hood, the MacArthur genius grant winner known for his work at Lafayette Square Park and Splashpad Park, is set to completely revamp OMCA (Oakland Museum of California). [Curbed SF]
  • A man and woman were fatally shot inside their car late yesterday evening in Oakland, which lead them to crash into a home near Douglas Avenue. [East Bay Times]
  • 250,000 (or more) are expected to flood the city blocks near Folsom Street today for the 36th Folsom Street Fair. [Bay City News]
  • Take a peek into Hairetics, the kink-positive hair salon. [SF Gate]
  • These are the fourteen best cakes to slice in SF, right now. [Eater SF]

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