Business & Tech That 'Farm' In Those Jennifer Garner Capital One Commercials Is a Real Berkeley-Based Company, and It’s Filing for an IPO Turns out that the business that Jennifer Garner hypes in one of her Capital One commercials is a real Berkeley-based company, though it's not really a farm, and they just filed to IPO on the New York Stock Exchange.
Bay Area Sports Guess What! The A's Will Have 'Sacramento' on Their (Alternate) Jerseys Starting Next Season After a first interim season in the state capital, the former Oakland Athletics are still not going to start calling themselves the Sacramento A's in 2026, but they will have 'Sacramento' emblazoned on their alternate jerseys, in a nod to the local crowd.
SF News That Huge, Bulky SFPD Cop Bus Is No Longer Sitting at 16th and Mission Streets After six and a half months of sitting there and trying to look intimidating, the SFPD’s giant, RV-style “mobile command unit” has been removed from the corner of 16th and Mission streets as the SFPD shifts gears on cleaning up that corner.
SF News Sonoma Commuters Rejoice as a 30-Year Freeway-Widening Project Gets Finally, Finally Finished Pretty much anyone who has lived in the Bay Area any length of time and has done some driving on 101 north to Sonoma County is familiar with the infamous forever traffic situation you run into right at the Marin-Sonoma border.
SF News Infamous New Year’s Eve DUI Hit-and-Run Suspect Troy McAlister Seeking Diversion Instead of Jail The case that largely drove the recall of DA Chesa Boudin is still in the courts nearly five years later, and the attorney for the man accused of killing two women while driving intoxicated on New Year’s Eve 2020 is asking for diversion instead of a jail sentence.
SF News Two Men Implicated In Oakland Gas Station Shooting That Killed Two Get Off With Probation The complete details of the case haven't been made public, but due to reportedly extensive legal issues with the case, neither of the two men who were jailed in connection with a deadly June 2023 shootout at an Oakland gas station are going to serve any significant time.
Arts & Entertainment Mermaid Sculpture Unveiled Next to Ferry Building as Part of New 'Waterfront Art Walk' Another piece of public art has come to the Embarcadero this week, with the official unveiling Tuesday of 'Coralee,' a larger-than-life-size mermaid made of metal and other materials, by artist Dana Albany.
SF News East Bay Man Gets Two Years for Assaulting Woman He Lured Here With Promise of OnlyFans Job An East Bay man has taken a plea deal in a case in which a Georgia woman was lured to fly to the Bay Area with the promise of $5,000 for an OnlyFans gig.
SF News Government Shutdown Could Clip the Wings of Next Weekend’s Fleet Week Your dog might be relieved if the Blue Angels aren’t flying for next weekend’s Fleet Week celebrations, but there is indeed a possibility that the looming government shutdown will cancel the involvement of US military planes and ships.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Harbor Porpoise Swims Up Napa River A harbor porpoise has been spotted in the Napa River; Bay Area fans are psyched about Bad Bunny coming for the Super Bowl; and a second victim has died in last week's Dallas ICE facility shooting.
Arts & Entertainment Sam Smith, Who Was Just Shooting a Music Video Around the Castro, to Do Castro Theatre Residency Grammy-winning singer Sam Smith is the opening act for the reopening of the newly renovated Castro Theatre, which the singer teased in a Monday TikTok post.
SF News Day Around the Bay: BART Adds More Cars to Accommodate Crowds BART is adding more cars to trains as ridership increases; Toni Atkins is bowing out of the governor's race; and Oregon is suing the Trump administration over a National Guard deployment threat.
SF News Ongoing Wine Country Real Estate Scandal Draws Scrutiny of Lender Who Financed Accused Fraudster A new wrinkle in the case of a Sonoma County real estate tycoon accused of bilking nearly 200 investors out of $46 million, as it turns out most of his properties were financed by a single lender, raising questions about what they knew.
SF Politics After Release of Memoir, Kamala Harris Sets Up Tense Days Ahead Between Her and Gavin Newsom One of the biggest takeaways from Kamala Harris's new book '107 Days' is that there's no love lost between her and Governor Gavin Newsom, after each has risen separately out of the same political orbit over the past 25 years.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Heads Up, Tipped Employees: ‘No Taxes on Tips’ Still Means Some Taxes on Your Tips The devil is coming out of the details of Trump’s “no taxes on tips” policy, and it turns out tipped employees still have to pay taxes on those tips but then deduct them afterwards, and automatic service charges are still fully taxed.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Woman Spends Untold Thousands on Billboard Campaign Seeking Husband Many of us are familiar with the frustrations of dating apps, and the seemingly endless cycle of not-quite-right matches and quick ghostings they bring with them. One Bay Area woman has taken matters into her own hands and gone analog with her search for a mate, on a fairly grand scale.
Business & Tech Jared Kushner Partners With Saudis to Buy Bay Area-Based Game-Maker Electronic Arts Redwood City-based Electronic Arts could be taken private in a $55 billion deal announced Monday that's backed by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners, and private equity firm Silver Lake.
Bay Area Sports Giants Fire Manager Bob Melvin, After Two Seasons of Mediocre At-Best Baseball Giants president Buster Posey has decided that .500 baseball is not going to cut it in the same division as the star-studded Dodgers, firing manager Bob Melvin Monday morning just as the Giants wrapped up their 2025 season.
Arts & Entertainment MAGA Hissy Fit Over Bad Bunny Super Bowl Halftime Show Should Further Alienate Young and Latino Voters The NFL made the bold decision to book Puerto Rican megastar Bad Bunny for this year's Super Bowl Halftime Show when the game is played in Santa Clara, and suffice it to say conservative pundits are apoplectic.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Fumble, Bumble, Stumble Their Way to 26-21 Loss to Jacksonville Jaguars The 49ers gave up two interceptions, two fumbles, and a punt turn for a touchdown in a demeaning loss to the Jaguars, and punctuated this by telling Jacksonville's coach, “I’ll f*ck your world up,” and “I will f*cking end your f*cking life.”
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Two Beach Rescues In Sonoma Sonoma County Sheriff's rescuers performed two separate beach rescues Sunday; tiny coffee window in North Beach closed by the health department; and BART had more maintenance disruptions on Sunday.
SF News San Bruno Police Witness Driverless Waymo Make Illegal U-Turn, Can’t Issue Ticket The San Bruno Police Department took to social media over the weekend highlighting its conundrum regarding how to hold a driverless vehicle accountable for violating traffic laws. A state law on the matter goes into effect July 2026.
SF News Video: Lightning Strikes Bay Area Hundreds of Times, Also, Rain Expected Monday, Wednesday Over 5,000 lightning strikes were detected throughout California Wednesday, with 985 located in the Bay Area and Central Coast. Plus, two storms are forecasted for the coming week, with an inch of rain expected in the North Bay and half an inch in SF.
sports Oakland Ballers Win First Baseball Championship, Parade to Be Held Next Sunday Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee announced earlier this week the city will be hosting a rally and parade on Sunday, October 5 in celebration of the Ballers’ Pioneer League baseball championship win, the city’s first pro-sports championship celebration since 2018.
SF News Sunday Links: East Bay Cop Ordered to Pay Bills, Lost Wages to Teacher She Hit in Crosswalk There have been a lot of shootings locally and nationally this weekend; the entrepreneurs who purchased Radio Shack and Pier 1 have been accused of running a Ponzi scheme; and a Concord cop must pay the medical bills and lost wages of a woman she hit in a crosswalk.
