Arts & Entertainment Heads Up: A Bunch of Streets Are Set to Be Closed Around Moscone Center and Chase Center for All Star Game Weekend The street closures for the All Star Game this weekend won't just be around the Chase Center. A bunch of NBA-related events are happening at the Moscone Center as well, and like at a big convention, the streets will be closed there as well.
SF News US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in Bay Area Today There may be a motorcade or two complicating traffic near Moscone Center Monday afternoon, as Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will be downtown to give a keynote at the RSA Conference.
SF Politics Ahead of APEC Summit, Protesters Hang 'Free Tibet' Banner On Top of Moscone Center North The protests are beginning, and even though Chinese President Xi Jinping isn't even in town yet, and the APEC leaders summit doesn't even kick off until Saturday, a pro-Tibet group is already getting their messaging out there.
SF News APEC Summit Will Close Freeway Ramps, All Streets Around Moscone Center, and Central Subway for Six Days Well, it looks like this major trade conference that is bringing a bunch of world leaders from the Asia-Pacific sphere to San Francisco in a few weeks is going to snarl traffic and cause transit headaches way bigger than Dreamforce ever does.
SF News SFPD Chase of Murder Suspect Ends With Van Crashing at Third and Folsom Streets, During Moscone Center Conference The California Highway Patrol started a pursuit of a reported Oakland homicide suspect in Redwood City Thursday, and the chase didn’t end until the suspect crashed his white van into the wall of the Moscone Center parking lot.
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.
Business & Tech SF Tourism Board Launches New Ad Campaign to Sell City as Still Quirky and Fun Trying to counter several years of bad national press and a concerted effort by conservatives to single out San Francisco for urban ills that exist in many cities, SF Travel has launched its "largest ever" ad campaign to lure conventioneers and tourists back to town.
Business & Tech Game Developers Conference Opened Today at Moscone Center, Drawing an Estimated 24,000 The big annual Game Developers Conference returned to San Francisco with its Monday morning opening, and it runs through Thursday at the Moscone Center, with twice as many attendees expected compared to last year’s scaled-down version.
SF News Early June RSA Conference at Moscone Reportedly a ‘Hotbed for COVID-19,’ Attendees Call It ‘Super Spreader Event’ The “risk professionals” at a recent SF security conference may not have factored in the risk of a largely maskless event at the height of an Omicron surge, as hundreds of attendees say they caught the virus while networking to battle computer viruses.
SF News Big Conferences are Back, as Game Developers Conference Returns to Moscone Center An estimated 10,000 or more video game nerds — including the Wordle guy — have converged upon Moscone Center for the return of the annual Game Developers Conference, though the event is projected to have only about half of its normal attendance.
Business & Tech Dreamforce Returns as Much Smaller, Mostly Outdoor Conference in SoMa This Week 170,000 people usually come to Dreamforce, which along with the now departed Oracle OpenWorld would typically clog up traffic all over downtown for several days as conventioneers descended on the city. This year will be much different.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Moscone Center Resumes Vaccinations Monday COVID has decreased U.S. life expectancy by a full year, the Moscone Center vaccination site resumes operations on Monday with a backlog of appointments, and Airbnb is opening a "technical hub" in Atlanta.
SF News New Facility at Moscone Center to Open Over Social Distancing Concerns in Shelters The City of San Francisco is set to open a new shelter at the Moscone Center next week to help "create more space in [SF's] existing shelters and Navigation Centers," which will allow for proper social distancing in the midst of the ballooning coronavirus pandemic.
SF News Dreamforce Street Shutdowns Begin, Avoid That Part of SoMa at All Costs Howard Street between 3rd and 4th Street was shut down Tuesday ahead of next week's kickoff of Salesforce's annual Dreamforce convention. And for everyone who doesn't know the drill, this means it is officially time to avoid driving anywhere near SoMa for the next two weeks.
SF News In First Big Post-Election Speech, Clinton Calls Health Care Bill Failure 'A Victory For All Americans' Speaking to the Professional Businesswomen of California conference in San Francisco Tuesday night, Hillary Clinton gave her first major speech since the November election, and she spoke on topics ranging from Trumpcare, to
SF News Hillary Clinton Coming To Speak In San Francisco In Two Weeks Almost-president Hillary Clinton will be arriving in the Bay Area the week after next to deliver a keynote address at the 28th annual Professional BusinessWomen of California (PBWC) conference at the Moscone Center
SF News Citing Convenience, Apple Moves Popular App Developers Conference From SF To San Jose Reportedly chafing at inconveniences at San Francisco's Moscone Center, Apple has moved its popular World Wide Developers Conference to San Jose for this year's event. According to the invitation sent to participants and
SF News Tourism Dip Expected As Moscone Center Set To Close For Expansion The San Francisco tourism industry, accustomed to recent boom times, is about to shift gears as it prepares for the loss of business generated by the city's largest convention center operation. In April,
SF News Fight Over Phone Charger Leads To Moscone Center Area Robbery A man staying at a Moscone Center-area hotel was robbed at gunpoint Thursday, following an altercation over a cell phone charger. Police were called to a hotel on the 800 block of Howard
SF News Again, Don't Try Driving Through SoMa: Dreamforce Kicks Off Today Salesforce's answer to Oracle's Openworld conference, which itself recently shut down/effed up traffic in part of SoMa as it annually does, happens all this week, and given all the rest of the
SF News Don't Try Driving Through SoMa: Oracle OpenWorld Is Here We're just making sure you're aware that the annual SoMa traffic clusterf**k known as Oracle OpenWorld in which Oracle gets to shut down a whole block of Howard Street for the city's
Arts & Entertainment Video: How San Francisco Made Saturday Night Live This Weekend While our esteemed colleagues at Gothamist ably cover Saturday Night Live every Sunday morning, there was a notable local element to this weekend's Matthew McConaughey hosted episode that deserves SFist attention, I believe.
SF News Oracle's Annual Closure Of SF Has Begun It happens every year (and somehow we get through it): Oracle's OpenWorld conference begins Sunday, which means street closures and traffic snarls in the Moscone Center area and beyond. According to the SF
SF News People Lined Up Overnight To Get Good Seats At Apple Conference Keynote Today Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference descends on SF this week, just two weeks after Google's developer conference, and ticket-holders still line up overnight for these things even when there isn't a big product announcement
SF News [Updated] Highlights From The Google I/O Developer Conference Keynote If you're wondering who all those nerds are in the vicinity of the Moscone Center today, it's a legion of developers who are currently getting a peek at the next version of the
