SF Politics Palo Alto City Council to Take Up Legislation to Clamp Down on Billionaire Compounds A Palo Alto city councilmember is introducing some unusual new legislation today that is aimed squarely at the billionaires in the city — ahem, Zuckerberg — who have spent years gobbling up formerly middle-class homes and assembling compounds that undergo years of endless construction.
SF News Saturday Links: New Bookstore Now Open in Union Square, Thanks to SF’s Vacant to Vibrant Program A 90-year-old man plowed through a Los Gatos coffee shop, DUI suspected; pop star Kesha gave an impromptu performance at a Palo Alto bar but was kicked out by unsuspecting security staff; and SF’s Powell Street now has a new independent bookstore, 'The Best Bookstore.'
Business & Tech Palo Alto-Based Startup Admits Its ‘Smart Weather Balloon’ Likely Hit and Grounded a United Airlines Flight A Palo Alto startup that makes weather balloons admits it was “likely” their balloon that struck a United Airlines flight this past Thursday, cracking the windshield, injuring a pilot and forcing an emergency landing.
SF News Sunday Links: Pro-Trump Counter-Protestors Crash ‘No Kings’ Rally in Palo Alto Some Glen Park residents are perplexed by Time Out's coining their beloved neighborhood as cool; Mayor Lurie was conspicuously absent from Saturday’s “No Kings” rally in SF; and some MAGA supporters showed up to Palo Alto’s “No Kings” protest.
Business & Tech Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Say Private School on Their Property Is a Home-School, Not Illegal Sometimes it's tough being a billionaire when the public is training a watchful eye on you, particularly when that public notices you're doing something that may not be fully above-board in your quiet suburban neighborhood.
Business & Tech Mark Zuckerberg's Palo Alto Compound, With 'Bunkers,' Has Reportedly Been Under Constant Construction For 8 Years Neighbors of the Chan-Zuckerbergs in Palo Alto's Crescent Park neighborhood say that the city and local police have basically bent over backwards to accommodate their local celebrity billionaire, at everyone else's expense.
sports Jeremy Lin Launches Basketball Camp for Asian American College Players in Palo Alto Former NBA star Jeremy Lin, known for sparking “Linsanity” back in 2012, is taking on a new role as mentor to young Asian American college athletes at his newly launched JLIN NextGen Basketball Camp in his hometown of Palo Alto.
SF News Day Around the Bay: World's Ugliest Dog Contest Opens Sonoma County Fair This Friday The suspect in a recent East Bay Target bombing has been linked to a multi-state ATM heist crew; an LA activist has been tailing and filming ICE agents, while alerting communities to their presence; and the Sonoma County Fair kicks off tonight with the World's Ugliest Dog Contest.
Business & Tech Local Tech Company’s AI Agent ‘Panics,’ Deletes Production Data, Then Hallucinates Cover-Up Replit, a Bay Area–based coding platform, made headlines after its AI deleted a live database during a “vibe coding” session. Investor Jason Lemkin says the cover-up attempt was worse, but he’s still using Replit after what he called “mega improvements.”
Arts & Entertainment Notable Humans: Filmmaker Joslyn Rose Lyons Leads Oakland Arts Renaissance This week: Filmmaker Joslyn Rose Lyons spotlights Oakland stories; Dr. Veronica Jow bridges dance and medicine; softball star Nina Pototo shines; and we honor lives well lived — Federal Glover, Rob Reich, and Dorothy Fisher Anderson.
Business & Tech Waymo Just Expanded Service to Offer Rides In Silicon Valley, the Company's Birthplace The newest places you can catch Waymo robo-rides are the Silicon Valley cities of Los Altos, Palo Alto, and Mountain View, which makes sense, as Waymo was born in Mountain View.
Arts & Entertainment Palo Alto Donkey Who Served as the Model for the ‘Shrek’ Donkey Has Died A Jerusalem miniature donkey in Palo Alto named Perry served as the movement model for Eddie Murphy’s ‘Shrek’ character Donkey in the animated franchise, but Perry succumbed to a hoof disease last week.
SF Politics JD Vance In Palo Alto Monday Night for Big-Bucks Trump Fundraiser Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance will be in the Bay Area for a fundraiser Monday night, with tickets as much as $50,000 per couple, but you can pay your admission in crypto.
SF News President Biden Arriving In Bay Area Today For Multi-Day Visit Biden’s in the Bay Area starting this afternoon to tout a climate project and of course raise money for his reelection campaign, and oddly, Ron DeSantis will be here courting donors tonight too.
SF News Pod of Orcas Attacks Palo Alto Family's Sailboat Off the Coast of Southern Spain, Stranding Family Asea The Currier family's Mediteranean trip was cut short when their boat was rammed by the orcas in an increasingly common and characteristic that lasted only four minutes but broke its rudder.
SF News Suspect In UC Berkeley Sexual Battery Cases Arrested After Being Linked to Similar Crime In Palo Alto A suspect who had allegedly been groping and assaulting women on two sides of the Bay was arrested Tuesday in Berkeley, ending a week in which women at the UC Berkeley campus were on high alert after three separate incidents.
SF News Disgraced Crypto Mogul Sam Bankman-Fried Stuck At Parents’ Place on House Arrest, But Mulling Book, Movie Deals The downfallen crypto founder is stuck under house arrest in his parents’ house in Palo Alto, now a “heavily guarded fortress” with a $10,000-a-week security detail, but one person who’s been able to get into the house is 'Moneyball' author Michael Lewis.
SF News Palo Alto Police Are Suing the City Over a Black Lives Matter Mural They Say Discriminates Against Them A Black Lives Matter mural that sparked outrage from Palo Alto police over a year ago is now the subject of a lawsuit against the city over its refusal to remove it for four months.
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 News High-End Handbag Heisters Hit Stanford Shopping Center Yet Again A gang of grab-and-run thieves descended on the Louis Vuitton store at Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto this week and stole an estimated $100,000+ in pricey handbags.
SF News Palo Alto Mom and Daughter Return Home After Coronavirus Quarantine in SoCal A Bay Area woman and her daughter were among the 195 Americans evacuated from Wuhan, China two weeks ago and sent into quarantine at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside.
SF News Elderly Palo Alto Airbnb Owner Returns Home to Find Party, Gets Robbed A Palo Alto man in his 60s who went to check on a smoke alarm that went off at the home he was renting on Airbnb got accosted and robbed, twice, after discovering an unauthorized party at the house and trying to shut it down.
SF News Palo Alto Woman Who Berated MAGA Hat Wearer Goes Missing, Likely Gone Off Grid A Bay Area woman who was caught in a right-wing media firestorm after she publicly berated an elderly man for wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat in a Palo Alto Starbucks has apparently voluntarily disappeared.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nobu, Nobu, Nobu! Famed High-End Sushi Chain Officially Headed To Palo Alto As Future rhapsodizes on his track "Jumpman" with Drake, "Nobu, Nobu, Nobu, Nobu, Nobu, Nobu." A status byword in hip-hop and popular culture generally, the New York-founded sushi chain from chef Nobu Matsuhisa
SF News Bay Area Uber Driver Allegedly Returned To Woman's House After She Reported Him For Sexual Battery A Bay Area Uber driver was arrested this weekend, after police say he sexually battered and stalked a woman who hailed him using the popular mobile app. In a press release sent Tuesday,
