- Diana Ross’s Sunday performance closed out the 88th season of the Stern Grove festival on Sunday, and boy she had a lot of great outfits, but she was apparently not happy with the sound. Ross at one point mimicked that she was throwing her microphone in frustration that (she felt) it was not working, and at another point told the crowd, “You are an amazing, amazing audience. My sound group is the pits.” [Chronicle]
- The 2025-26 school year starts today as students return to San Francisco Unified School District classrooms, and people are optimistic this year will be less chaotic without all the school closure and layoff drama. Yet there still may be some lingering payroll problems and complaints over a new ethnic studies curriculum. [KQED]
- There have apparently been “several crashes and close calls between bicyclists and pedestrians” at the Sunset Dunes park that is the former Great Highway, so the city is putting up some signage to separate pedestrian and bicycle traffic. There will be a low-impact lane for families and pedestrians, and another lane for e-bikes, scooters, joggers, skateboarders, and rollerbladers. [KPIX]
- President Trump has a summit with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Washington, DC today, and several European leaders will also be on hand. [NBC Bay Area]
- 17-year-old San Rafael teen Aaron Baten Gramajo died in a hiking accident last week, having apparently fallen off a cliff at the Marin Headlands. [KRON4]
- Taylor Swift numerology theories abound after she said on her recent podcast with boyfriend Travis Kelce that sourdough bread has "taken over my life in a huge way," and she thinks about it "60% of the time now," and fans speculate that this means she’s teasing that she’s going to play the Super Bowl 60 halftime show this coming February in Santa Clara here in the sourdough bread-producing region of the Bay Area. [People]
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