Business & Tech Facebook's Market Cap Tops $1 Trillion for the First Time After Antitrust Case Is Dismissed Facebook has now joined the ranks of trillion-dollar companies, alongside the only other companies to reach such a market capitalization, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, and Microsoft.
SF News Road Show by Julian Assange's Family Makes Stop In Oakland; Noam Chomsky, Alice Walker, Daniel Ellsberg Speak The family of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is staging events around the country this summer to advocate for the dropping of the United States' extradition request and the Espionage Act charges against him.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Equator Coffees to Take Over as Vendor at Golden Gate Bridge's Historic Round House Cafe The Art Deco-styled Round House Cafe on the SF side of the Golden Gate Bridge is getting a new tenant, and it's none other than Marin County-based Equator Coffees.
SF News Florence Fang Settles Lawsuit With Hillsborough Over Her Flintstone Lawn Ornaments The Flintstone House in Hillsborough will keep its tacky statuary and cartoon sculptures, and the town has agreed to pay the homeowner for her trouble following a two-year dustup that centers on taste and private property rights.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Second Swimmer Drowns In Lake Berryessa "Safe and sane" fireworks are being sold all over the Bay even though they remain wildfire hazards, a swimmer has drowned at Lake Berryessa for the second weekend in a row, and Pride Sunday was a party all over the city.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland's First Ever Black Pride Kicks Off With Bar Crawl, Expo, and 'Slayers Ball' Coinciding with the traditional last-weekend-in-June Pride celebration in San Francisco, Oakland Black Pride is having its first-ever series of events focused on the Black LGBTQ+ community of the East Bay.
Bay Area Sports Bay Bridge Series Kicks Off at Oracle Park and It's the Biggest Local Event Since Pandemic Began The SF Giants and the Oakland A's are repeating the time-honored tradition tonight of the Bay Bridge series, competing against each other in a set of three East Bay vs. West Bay games at Oracle Park.
Arts & Entertainment SoMa LGBTQ Mainstays Oasis and The Eagle Reopen For Pride; Oasis Unveils New Party Slate Both Oasis and the Eagle Tavern are reopening indoors and out this weekend for the first time since the pandemic began, bringing LGBTQ nightlife back to SoMa in time for Pride.
SF News Pride Revelers Beware: Muni Shuts Early, Uber and Lyft Rides Are Going to Be Expensive You may want to strap on some good walking shoes if you're planning to party-hop during this late-pandemic Pride Weekend in San Francisco, because things aren't exactly back to normal with public transportation or the world of rideshares.
SF News Willow Fire In Monterey County Reaches 26% Containment, Evacuations Lifted Some mandatory evacuation orders have been lifted in the remote mountains of the Ventana Wilderness east of Big Sur as firefighting crews have gained the upper hand on the week-old Willow Fire.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Almost Half of SF Businesses Still Closed? A new city report finds that 45% of SF small businesses remain closed, a group representing Black city employees objects to SF's mandate that they all be vaccinated, and the death toll at the Miami condo collapse site is at 4 but expected to rise dramatically.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Homelessness Dept. Wants $15M So It Can Keep Spending $60K Per Tent Per Year A 21-year-old woman visiting SF says she was shot through her car door in the Mission on Sunday, SF's Dept. of Homelessness still wants to spend too much on those tents, and one of those swanky Light House condos on Dolores Park is back on the market.
SF News Another Poll Finds A Lot of People Who Claim They'll Leave San Francisco In a Few Years Somewhere around 40 or 50 percent of people living here — people living here who respond to polls, that is — say they plan to leave in the next few years.
SF News Infamous Tech Entrepreneur Turned Fugitive Expat John McAfee Found Dead In Spanish Jail Cell John McAfee, the creator of McAfee antivirus software who has made headlines many times in the last decade for his legal troubles and presidential runs, was found dead in a jail cell in Spain late Wednesday, hours after a court approved his extradition to the United States on tax evasion charges.
Business & Tech Antioch Wants to Become the Bay Area's Next Big Marijuana Hub The East Bay city of Antioch is aiming to be the "cannabis capital of Northern California" with the approval of two major cannabis cultivation and distribution facilities.
SF News Richmond Drive-by Shooting That Killed Three Possibly Linked to Earlier Shooting In Oakland A drive-by shooting in Richmond that killed three people and wounded five others at a house party on Sunday was similar to one that occurred in Oakland several weeks earlier, investigators say.
Arts & Entertainment Kitten Found Stranded On Freeway Overpass Ledge Near SFO Now Up For Adoption A kitten who was apparently tossed off a freeway overpass near SFO earlier this month and was stranded on a ledge high above the ground was rescued by the Peninsula Humane Society and is now up for adoption.
SF News Heatwave Set to Make Seattle Swelter, But the Bay Area Not So Much A heatwave descending this weekend will make for some hot hot weather in the Pacific Northwest and parts of Northern California, but San Francisco and much of the Bay Area will just have some pleasantly warm and sunny days.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Levi's Stadium Vaccination Site Closes The Newsom recall election is officially moving forward after petition signatures are affirmed, the SF Chamber of Commerce annual poll results come out today, and the Levi's Stadium mass-vaccination site is closing today after four months.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Will Require All City Employees to Get Vaccinated SF will make all city workers get vaccines once the FDA gives full approval to one, the Oakland City Council may be diverting $17M of the police budget, and Gavin Newsom may have overstated how many fire breaks have been cleared around the state — by a lot.
SF News Handbag Heist Crew Strikes Again In Palo Alto What is likely the same crew of brazen shoplifters who have recently struck twice at Stanford Shopping Center and once in San Francisco's Union Square has struck again, this time in downtown Palo Alto.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Instagram-Famous Pizza Operation Sunset Squares Opens SoMa Beer Hall, Slice Shop on Divisadero The team behind Namu Gaji and Namu Stonepot, who started making sourdough pizza and selling it through Instagram DMs under the name Sunset Squares during the pandemic, has just debuted a new pizza and beer hall in SoMa — and the former Namu Stonepot on Divis is becoming a slice shop.
SF News Mentally Ill Man Who Barricaded Himself Inside Glide Last Year Is Killed In Bayview Shooting A deeply mentally ill man who was implicated in a violent spree in the Tenderloin last spring that ended in a 15-hour standoff with police was killed Tuesday afternoon in a shooting in the Bayview neighborhood.
SF News Brazen Walgreens Thief Charged With Hitting Eight Stores In One Month A suspect who was arrested Saturday in connection with multiple Walgreens and CVS robberies — allegedly conducted in plain sight of staff and security guards — has been charged with 15 counts of robbery, grand theft, and burglary.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Team Behind Four Barrel and The Mill Set to Open New Bakery Called Loquat In 20th Century Cafe Space The owners of Four Barrel Coffee are expanding once more, and they're reportedly taking over the space being abandoned by 20th Century Cafe at Gough and Oak.
