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- How will you enjoy the Big Game? We humbly suggest you spend Sunday outside on a hike. sf.gazetteer.co/the-5-best-h...
- Starting an elite university is hard, which is why the founders of SF’s Minerva University got advice from the best: Jeffrey Epstein: sf.gazetteer.co/how-jeffrey-...
- San Francisco’s public school teachers are set to strike Monday. Negotiators will burn the midnight oil in a last-ditch effort to avert it: sf.gazetteer.co/working-over...
- Ahead of the West Coast premiere of “Tight & Nerdy” about the world’s greatest (only?) “Weird Al” Yankovic burlesque troupe at the Roxie this weekend, @zackruskin.bsky.social talked with co-director Jeff Nucera and founder Jann Jones, aka Pickles Kintaro: sf.gazetteer.co/for-more-tha...
- If you’re a Substack user, you might want to take “extra caution” with any suspicious texts you receive: sf.gazetteer.co/substack-rep...
- The March for Billionaires organizers want to set the record straight: sf.gazetteer.co/a-billion-ap...
- We spoke to Flour & Branch and Proper Food about what it takes to serve food at #SuperBowlLX sf.gazetteer.co/care-and-fee...
- Patriots fans in San Francisco are counting on a gnome to deliver the Vince Lombardi trophy: sf.gazetteer.co/where-everyb...
- Can you name nine billionaires? Apparently, the anonymous organizers behind the March for Billionaires cannot — at least, not without the help of AI. sf.gazetteer.co/of-course-th...
- Devil's Teeth Baking Company's anti-ICE cookies have raised $5,000 to date, plus a whole lot of hullabaloo. sf.gazetteer.co/after-the-ge...
- The deadline for a San Francisco teacher strike approaches like a drumbeat, evoking memories of parenting during the pandemic lockdowns: sf.gazetteer.co/parents-of-s...
- Welcome to Manic Monday, the weekly roundup of the juiciest stories, rumors, and developments circulating in the tech world. This week: Epstein associates on the cap table, Saturday’s March for Billionaires, and the new social media platform that only bots can join.
- ICYMI: Last Friday, fintech Rho LOCKED UP their shared office on Market Street and LOCKED IN to a new, bigger HQ near Jackson Square. sf.gazetteer.co/time-to-rho
- We asked the District Attorney, SFPD, and the Sheriff whether they could protect residents if ICE busted down their doors without a warrant, which is illegal under the Fourth Amendment. We got no answers. The scoop: subtxt.to/Q1IVe2g
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- Comedy requires a lot of stamina, as this diary of comedian/podcast George Chen’s four whirlwind days at SF Sketchfest last week shows: sf.gazetteer.co/lost-weekend
- Numerous San Francisco businesses, including restaurants and cafes, gyms, and retail shops plan to close Friday as part of a nationwide strike protesting violence by federal immigration enforcement officers. sf.gazetteer.co/these-are-th...
- Alexander Lurie is following in his brother's footsteps, posting on TikTok and gunning for social media superstardom. It's not going so great. sf.gazetteer.co/o-brother-wh...
- San Francisco’s public school teachers are edging ever closer to a strike, their first in almost 50 years. As district officials feel the heat, special education teachers hope their voices are finally heard: sf.gazetteer.co/we-need-to-b...
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- On the back porch of Danny Coyle's, you can find one of the many tiny honey growing sites one urban apiarist has hidden around the city.
- Three days in and the California Post is ”as a Fleet Street hack might say, the dog’s breakfast.” sf.gazetteer.co/paper-tiger
- Oakland’s Stay Gold Deli is known for its large portions, true-to-tradition slaws, and, for fans of hardcore music, spin kicks. sf.gazetteer.co/letter-from-...
- The Bay Area has five companies that have contracts with ICE and CBP. They're selling everything from flight restraints for deportees to car wraps to digital infrastructure, all to the tune of millions of dollars. Here's the scoop: (Free story, share widely) sf.gazetteer.co/these-sf-bay...
- We are seeking a print ad and sponsorships salesperson with a deep understanding of San Francisco's professional, cultural, and social scenes.
- Amateur historian Shawn Sprockett has made it his personal mission to uncover the lost stories of every San Francisco gayborhood, starting with North Beach. sf.gazetteer.co/gay-old-times
- At a live KQED podcast taping Wednesday, Mayor Daniel Lurie felt the love from the crowd, and perhaps surprisingly, from the journalists interviewing him. sf.gazetteer.co/friend-of-th...
- ‘The Organization’ (1971) pits a gang of radicals against white collar crooks in a gritty SF defined by high highs and low lows. In the middle is Sidney Poitier as Virgil Tibbs. @yourprotagonistwt.bsky.social’s latest San Francisco Plays Itself film column: sf.gazetteer.co/high-and-low
- California Attorney General Rob Bonta cited numbers to back up his claim that in court, Trump has "thrown in the towel, waved the white flag, and accepted defeat.” sf.gazetteer.co/the-good-fig...
- D4 Supervisor Alan Wong has said the Upper Great Highway closure correlates with more vehicle crashes in the Sunset. It's part of why he wants to reopen the road on weekdays. A new data analysis, however, suggests there's been no impact. Here's the scoop: FREE: sf.gazetteer.co/crashing-out...
- Creativity Explored x Open Invitational opens tomorrow and features works from progressive studios and art centers across the country including three in the Bay Area: sf.gazetteer.co/an-art-show-...
- Monday's news of an OpenAI hardware launch comes amid a flurry of disparate product announcements, every one seemingly an attempt to generate more serious revenue for the still-unprofitable company. sf.gazetteer.co/what-exactly...
- The James Beard Foundation today released its list of semifinalists for their prestigious culinary awards; here are the San Franciscans up for awards. sf.gazetteer.co/several-san-...
- Just about every nightlife venue in San Francisco is throwing a Heated Rivalry-themed party. (And a lot of them have already sold out.) sf.gazetteer.co/from-the-rin...
- Peet’s Coffee will be closing roughly 27 locations across California by the end of this month, a company representative at its Emeryville headquarters confirmed Tuesday. sf.gazetteer.co/dozens-of-pe...
- When the Marina Gap store reopened after renovations in November, one new addition went entirely unmentioned: A biometric data collector, courtesy from Sam Altman's under-the-radar crypto project called World. sf.gazetteer.co/gap-falls-in...
- Omar Mamoon is gobsmacked by Dingles Public House’s Scotch eggs and fish and chips. sf.gazetteer.co/a-very-good-...
- On Tuesday, five media professionals launched a culinary newsletter under the domain of one of the food world’s most devastating casualties: Gourmet Magazine. We spoke to one of its founding worker-owners, Alex Tatusian, about the food magazine’s life after death. sf.gazetteer.co/the-newslett...
- There are worse ways to spend a Friday evening than partying with a Filipino DJ on the San Francisco Bay Ferry: sf.gazetteer.co/rock-the-boat
- Say hello to the Tenderloin Voice, a new indie news outlet that aims to cover the much-maligned neighborhood with a simple principle: Why not ask readers exactly what they want to see? GIFT LINK: sf.gazetteer.co/talk-of-the-...
- You can follow the TL Voice on bluesky! @tlvoice.bsky.social
- CA is in the midst of its deadliest mushroom season in decades, with 35 poisonings since Nov. across 8 counties. The recent death in Sonoma marks the 3rd this year. A standard season would expect to see 5 poisoning cases statewide, and roughly 3 deaths nationwide. sf.gazetteer.co/toxic-mushro...
- Art critic Max Blue on what the closure of CCA means for San Francisco’s arts community: sf.gazetteer.co/negative-space
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- "This isn’t even venture capital anymore. Venture capital means you take a risk. High risk, high reward. If there’s no risk, that’s not venture capital." —@anildash.com sf.gazetteer.co/theyve-pickl...
- How would you feel if your school announced it was shutting down mid-way through your program? sf.gazetteer.co/as-vanderbil...
- The new @mcsweeneys.net event calendar provides a set of recs collected and presented by people, not by automated web scraping or algorithmic aggregation. sf.gazetteer.co/san-francisc...
- We talked to the anti-ICE protester who got pepper-sprayed at a downtown protest on Friday for the full story of how it went down. Turns out, he lives in the area, sees the violence regularly, and has thoughts on fighting back. FREE STORY: sf.gazetteer.co/neighborhood...
- A longtime Dead fan remembers Bob Weir: sf.gazetteer.co/guitar-wizard
- CBS anchor Tony Dokoupil dropped into San Francisco today to ask residents an urgent question: sf.gazetteer.co/cbs-news-dro...
- The Lurie-Trump files, another round of Great Highway brawling, the endless search for less crime in SF, and more: Here are the six things you'll be arguing about in 2026. FREE GIFT LINK (share widely!): sf.gazetteer.co/what-youll-b...
- Meet Union Square's newest small business owners, an energetic pair of former tech reporters who Mayor Daniel Lurie teasingly called 'overwhelming': sf.gazetteer.co/move-fast-an...
- Happy January 6 to Ariel Pink, who, for whatever reason, is playing The Chapel in San Francisco this Friday: sf.gazetteer.co/happy-januar...
