YouTube’s parent company Alphabet announced Tuesday it’s allowing creators who received permanent bans over misinformation relating to COVID-19 and the 2020 election to apply to be reinstated. This likely includes Robert F. Kennedy Jr and Steve Bannon.
Folsom fashion, Litquake’s parade of words, Michoacán flavors in Redwood City, Black woman-owned cafe in Mission Bay, Lassen’s open trails, Betty Reid Soskin at 104, SF plates on the Top 100 list, AI art in San Jose, a love billboard on 101, and Oakland’s Tiny Plot podcast.
BART is now collaborating with Baggu after voicing displeasure with the brand’s unauthorized use of its logo; a person was critically injured in a shooting at SF’s Civic Center Friday; and Newsom signed new bills that strengthen reproductive health access and privacy protections.
Oakland-born figure skater Alysa Liu won’t be performing to the d4vd song she’d chosen for the Milan Olympics; Sinclair and Nexstar will be airing Jimmy Kimmel at their ABC affiliate stations Friday; and Anthropic has settled a lawsuit with authors and publishers alleging copyright infringement.
Closed for renovations since February 2024, the Castro Theatre has just announced it will be reopening in February 2026, as operators Another Planet plan to have their $41 million overhaul completed by then.
The arrival of Via Aurelia, a new bottle shop comes to NoPa, North America's 50 Best list honors seven Bay Area spots, and Wilkommen says auf wiedersehen in the Castro, all in This Week In Food.
Folsom Street Fair weekend will be a lot less joyful on the dance floors, as local DJ Bus Station John had his shoulder shattered in a recent sidewalk fall, and then someone robbed him while he was injured on the ground.
Originally written 20 years ago and first performed 14 years ago, leading to a popular Canadian TV show adaptation, 'Kim's Convenience' remains a funny and powerful piece of theater about the immigrant experience.
After months of debate, the Oakland Police Commission approved a new policy allowing officers to engage in high-speed chases at any speed, though police say they’ll only do it in cases of violent criminals.
It could be an empty threat and more blowhard BS from President Donald Trump, or it could be something he'll actually try. But Trump mentioned on Thursday that he might want to move next year's World Cup matches out of cities that are "even a little bit dangerous."
Gen Z YouTube icon IShowSpeed drew Beatlemania-level excitement and received a dignitary’s welcome from Mayor Daniel Lurie in the Bay Area Thursday, though he and his fans were not always on their best behavior.
Many residents of the Bay Area and beyond, even as far east as Reno, reported seeing a meteor-like fireball in the sky that broke apart just before 8 pm Thursday.
Starbucks is closing over 120 locations around the country, including some in the Bay Area; a mistrial has been declared in a stabbing case outside a Santa Rosa bar; and a car wash owner is suing over an ICE raid.
Brock Purdy will likely be starting for the 49ers again Sunday; some woman put billboards along the Peninsula asking if anyone will marry her; and you will need to have a Netflix subscription if you want to watch the Giants’ Opening Day game in 2026.
The de Young Museum is displaying the first ever manga themed exhibition in a major American museum, starting this Saturday, and you better believe that Saturday’s opening event has been declared a “Cosplay Day.”
Sarah Jane Moore, one of two would-be assassins who took aim at President Gerald Ford in the span of three weeks in the summer of 1975, died on Wednesday in a nursing home in Tennessee at the age of 95.
After the flagship, three-story Union Square Uniqlo store closed in 2021 as that shopping district dove down the abyss, we’re now getting word that Uniqlo may want back into the downtown SF game, and might even be eyeing the vacant Old Navy.
One of the most anticipated and buzzed-about restaurant openings of the year is coming in on schedule. Via Aurelia, from Che Fico partners David Nayfeld and Matt Brewer, will be opening September 30 in Mission Bay.
The 37-year-old Chinatown favorite House of Nanking is releasing a cookbook next week, full of decades worth of the restaurant’s most popular recipes, plus a number of long-lost dishes that haven’t been on the menu in years.
A total of 66 apartment buildings with nearly 1,600 units belonging to the mega-landlord Veritas could be on the selling block come December, as Veritas is defaulting on yet another giant loan to the tune of $652 million.
A 25-person mob committed an armed robbery at a jewelry store in San Ramon on Monday, ransacking the store and reportedly making off with $1 million worth of merchandise. The crime is part of a larger pattern repeating itself across California.
An app created to track SF parking cops in real time has been shut down; Kamala Harris faces protesters on the first night of her book tour; and trailblazing local journalist Belva Davis has died.
Passengers on Muni's N-Judah line reportedly experienced a harrowing ride Wednesday morning when the train seemed to accelerate out of control and was unable to stop.
The jury in the second trial, like the first one, has deadlocked on the guilt or innocence of former FCI Dublin prison guard Darrell Wayne Smith; 101 California is now for sale; and another restaurant closes in the SF Centre mall.
Monterey County CBS affiliate KION appears to be the victim of some local TV downsizing, abruptly killing its news department Wednesday morning, and their news will now be called “KPIX News on KION,” which sounds like just KPIX News.
