Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Rapper Lyrics Born Now Has a Cooking Show, And He’ll Even Cook for You Next Week Callin’ out to all area crew: Berkeley-based hip-hop legend Lyrics Born has started an online cooking show, and you can even sample his food at a pop-up next week at a Maui fire benefit in Oakland.
Arts & Entertainment SF’s Ultra-Charming Piano Festival, Flower Piano, Returns to Golden Gate Park Starting Friday The annual parade of 12 pianos is descending back to Golden Gate Park’s SF Botanical Garden, as Flower Piano strikes a major chord with all-day outdoor piano concerts from Friday through Tuesday, and even the robot muppet is performing this year.
SF News Steph and Ayesha Curry Commit to Raising $50 Million for Oakland Schools The Warriors’ Stephen Curry continues to be pretty much the most likable athlete on earth, as he and spouse Ayesha just kicked off a $50 million fundraising campaign for Oakland schools, starting with a styled-out new school playground.
SF News Another Hurricane, Named Jova, Looms In the Pacific Ocean Meet Hurricane Jova, being described as “Western Hemisphere's strongest hurricane so far in 2023,” and presents the possibility of Category Five hurricanes in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans simultaneously.
Business & Tech SF Loses Google Conference to Las Vegas, But Scores Big AI Conference From ChatGPT Company Google has reneged on its deal to hold the 2024 Google Cloud Next conference at Moscone Center, instead moving the event to Las Vegas, but SF did just score a big AI conference from ChatGPT producer OpenAI.
Bay Area Sports Nick Bosa End 49ers Holdout, Signs $170 Million Contract, Becomes Highest-Paid NFL Defensive Player Ever 49ers defensive end Nick Bosa just signed the richest contract in the team’s history, ending his holdout with a five-year, $170 million deal that keeps the reigning Defensive Players of the Year in red and gold.
SF News Golden Gate Bridge Finally Getting Long-Overdue Earthquake Seismic Retrofit The unsettling truth is that the Golden Gate Bridge is the only bridge in California that has not been seismically retrofitted, but officials are finally starting that process, which is likely to take years and go wildly over budget.
SF Politics Ex-Fox News Host Pushing 2024 California Ballot Measure to Blow Up CEQA Legal Challenges A former Fox News host and current election denier is pushing an election ballot measure for 2024, one that would defang the environmental law CEQA that’s often used to hold up controversial housing developments.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Nick Bosa Still Holding Out, Just Five Days From 49ers Opener Gunshots forced a lockdown at Oakland’s Skyline High School, invasive fruit flies have caused a quarantine in parts of Santa Clara County, and Nick Bosa’s holdout worrisomely continues with the 49ers’ opener looming on Sunday.
Arts & Entertainment SF Movie Theater Owners Fear Writers' and Actors' Strikes Could Wreck the Rest of Their 2023 Movie theater operators are projecting a debilitating post-Barbenheimer hangover, as the twin strikes by the SAG-AFTRA and WGA threaten to erase upcoming blockbusters and Oscar-season prestige films from the 2023 film release calendar.
SF News Anchor Brewing Employees Launch GoFundMe to Buy Brewery, Campaign Makes Half of Its Goal in Two Days Community money is pouring in to the Anchor Brewing Company employees’ bid to buy the brewery after its August closure, as a GoFundMe campaign has hit more than half its goal in just two days.
SF News Lake Merritt Shootout Leaves One Innocent Bystander Critically Injured by Gunfire An unidentified woman in her early 20s was shot at Lake Merritt Monday afternoon, and police describe her as an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire of gunshots between two white Lexus vehicles.
SF News People Finally Leave Burning Man, But Reportedly Also Leave Behind Trash and Even Their Vehicles The gray seas finally parted for the 70,000 revelers to leave Burning Man Monday afternoon, though the traffic jam to get out lasted up to eight hours, and law enforcement officials complain that people abandoned their possessions and even vehicles in the desert.
SF Politics Some Supervisors Vow to Jump In on This U.N. Plaza Farmers’ Market Controversy, Possibly Undoing the Move As the Heart of the City Farmers’ Market is set to be displaced to the next block over this weekend, two supervisors are proposing legislation to relitigate that decision, and maybe move the proposed skate park instead.
Arts & Entertainment The Burning Man Webcast is Now Live, Will Broadcast Saturday Night’s Burn This year’s scaled-back, three-day Burning Man webcast is now live and running, and you can tune in to watch the spectacular Burn happen live on Saturday night, should you so desire.
Bay Area Sports Cal and Stanford Officially Switch Conferences to the ACC; PAC-12 Is Probably Dead The Cal Bears and Stanford Cardinal just Transfer Portaled themselves to the Atlantic Coast Conference, effective in 2024, which was the best outcome possible for the two schools as the PAC-12 has turned into a dying husk over the last month.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: $2 Million Winning Lottery Scratcher Ticket Sold at Chevron in Hayward We might get a drizzle of rainfall over Labor Day weekend, Marc Benioff is suddenly back to saying wonderful things about San Francisco, and somebody won $2 million on an instant scratcher lottery ticket purchased at a Hayward Chevron.
SF News Mpox Cases on the Rise Again in SF, Health Department Warns The disease formerly known as monkeypox is making a troubling little comeback in SF, and while case counts are low, we’ve seen a nearly seven-fold increase in positive mpox cases in the last five weeks.
SF News Governor Newsom Still on His Kick for Pricey San Quentin Reform, Offering Little Detail Newsom has a nebulous plan to transform San Quentin State Prison into a correctional facility that’s more like a college campus, but the $360 million price tag and lack of transparency is making some people wary.
SF News Lower Haight Smells Even Worse Than Usual, Thanks to Sewer Repair Project A highly unpleasant odor is causing a stink in the Lower Haight, as a sewer repair effort permeates a chemical odor throughout the neighborhood, but the SFPUC insists there’s no public health hazard.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Beyonce Show Gloriously Breaks Santa Clara Curfew, Despite Extension Expect more smoky skies again Thursday, beleaguered mega-landlord Veritas found someone to buy up their properties, and Beyonce’s Levi’s Stadium show went 30 minutes past curfew, even though it was given an hour-long extension.
SF News Filipino Grocer Island Pacific Market Wants to Move in on Vacant Outer Mission Space Can Alemany Boulevard handle two specialty Asian grocery stores within a mile of each other? The Filipino grocery chain Island Pacific Market thinks so, and has submitted applications to move into a vacant spot not far from the wildly popular H Mart.
SF Politics Yet More Bribery Charges for SF City Hall Employees, This Time for Pocketing Public Funds A current city grant program director and a former city employee who’s now a consultant stand accused of the grant director funneling projects to the consultant, who in return allegedly kicked back more than $200,000 in checks to the director and her family.
SF Politics Irate Gavin Newsom Wants to Dox Judge Who Blocked Encampment Sweeps Well, this is Trump-y. Displeased with legal rulings blocking encampment sweeps, a testy Gavin Newsom declared he wanted to post “a big sign with the judge’s phone number saying, ‘Call the judge.’”
Business & Tech Marc Benioff Threatens to Move Dreamforce Conference Out of SF Over Homelessness, Drug Use The annual Dreamforce convention is still set to begin less than two weeks from now, but Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is threatening to move the whole shebang elsewhere if he thinks drug use and homelessness disrupt this year’s event.