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BART@bart.gov · 6mo agoCongrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!
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This downtown SF university gave up its campus. Here’s how it plans to rebuild sfstandard.com/2026/02/12/g...
San Francisco’s Golden Gate University plans to find a new downtown campus
Golden Gate University is focused on growing its online program. Here’s why it still wants a space in downtown SF.
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Fun Q&A from @jonsteinberg31.bsky.social about what it was like to be one of the human bushes ("grass people"!) during Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show. Particularly loved this tidbit from the participant about how they appreciated their phone getting taken away sfstandard.com/2026/02/10/c...
Mayor Lurie is working with Laurene Powell Jobs, Jony Ive on secretive SF branding effort 👀👀👀 sfstandard.com/2026/02/03/d...
SF mayor working with Laurene Powell Jobs, Jony Ive on secretive SF branding effort
Mayor Daniel Lurie has quietly met several times in recent months with philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs, former Apple designer Jony Ive, Gap CEO Richard Dickson, and others, to discuss a branding ca...
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On the ground reporting from my colleagues this afternoon at the national strike & ICE protest in Dolores Park >>>> sfstandard.com/2026/01/30/s...
ICE protests: San Francisco businesses, students join national strike
Protesters gather at Dolores Park on a day of action sparked by the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis.
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H1mmy Butler is out, but his Bigface Coffee is returning to San Francisco just in time for Super Bowl LX per @jillianiles.bsky.social 👇 sfstandard.com/2026/01/27/j...
Jimmy Butler’s Bigface Coffee comes back to SF
While the Warriors star is sidelined with a torn ACL, his brand Bigface will have another pop-up.
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Unlike in past tech booms, AI companies aren't plastering their names and logos onto office buildings, so it can be hard to know where they're all located. @kevinvnguyen.bsky.social maps San Francisco's hotspots ➡️🗺️ sfstandard.com/2026/01/22/s...
Invisible giants: Where AI companies are hiding their offices
A lack of signage and public addresses obscures their locations. But we’ve got the dirt on the industry’s footprint in San Francisco.
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Want to turn Super Bowl 60 into your side hustle? I found a bunch of temp work positions currently available around the big game, including one that involves getting to be *on the field* during halftime (if you meet veeery specific height requirements) sfstandard.com/2026/01/21/s...
How to make the Super Bowl LX your side hustle
The Niners are out, so here are your chances to make some cash around the big game.
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Displaced by fire, then robbed: Tenderloin tenants say landlord left them vulnerable sfstandard.com/2026/01/15/t... @allaboutgeorge.com reports on the devastation
SF tenants displaced by fire face theft, silence from landlord
Many say Mosser Companies failed to secure their homes or return calls since a December blaze.
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“It’s been a story of resistance: We’d get kicked out of one space and find another neighborhood to regroup, and add love and creativity,” Joseph said. “Now, we’re ready to give other artists and collectives a space.” sfstandard.com/2025/12/10/d...
This arts org has lost multiple venues, so it decided to open its own
Decentered Arts opened on Folsom Street in one of SF’s last “weirdo-majority” neighborhoods.
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Folks... someone gave birth inside a Waymo last night sfstandard.com/2025/12/09/b...
Driverless delivery: Woman gives birth in San Francisco Waymo
Waymo detected “unusual activity” in the robotaxi and initiated a call to check on the passenger.
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An unlikely character is spearheading the recent glow-up of one of SF’s most important retail corridors: sfstandard.com/2025/12/07/p...
Meet the Lurie-loving crypto bro helping lead Powell Street’s turnaround
An unlikely character is spearheading the recent glow-up of one of SF’s most important retail corridors.
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Inside a historic building — and a major San Francisco corridor — at a crossroads. Here's the story of how a landmark once poised for a comeback has become mired in lawsuits sfstandard.com/2025/12/01/1...
Inside a historic building — and a major San Francisco corridor — at a crossroads
A landmark once poised for a comeback is mired in lawsuits, reflecting broader troubles facing Van Ness Avenue.
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More changes on the horizon for Ikea's Saluhall, Market Street's struggling food hall sfstandard.com/2025/11/24/s...
Rent hike drives out original tenant of Ikea’s SF food hall
Vegan Puerto Rican restaurant Casa Borinqueña will exit Saluhall. Izzy and Wooks will move in.
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San Francisco police ramp up late-night drug raids to appease Trump and feds sfstandard.com/2025/11/24/s...
San Francisco police step up late-night drug raids to appease Trump
Officials say the crackdown is linked to the president’s threats to deploy the National Guard and ICE.
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This SF couple made a maaajor alley-oops sfstandard.com/2025/11/21/s...
‘Why would someone own this?’ How this Sunset couple accidentally bought an alley for $25,000
This husband and wife thought a real estate auction offered the chance at a $1 million house for a fraction of the cost, only to find out they were the new owners of “Dirt Alley” instead.
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Why all the free-stuff Facebook groups you’re part of just changed their names sfstandard.com/2025/11/07/b...
Why all the free-stuff Facebook groups you’re part of just changed their name
Almost anything can be had through Buy Nothing — except the name.
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"The beach lovers’ initiative is part of a pattern: If the feds can’t get their act together, San Franciscans will just do it themselves." sfstandard.com/2025/11/06/s...
San Francisco’s China Beach reopens despite federal shutdown
A mere $2,500 was enough to keep the sliver of federal waterfront accessible.
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!!! A new bookstore is coming to Union Square — and right on Powell Street no less sfstandard.com/2025/11/05/e...
San Francisco’s Union Square is about to get a bookstore
The Best Bookstore, founded by a couple of famed tech writers, plans to open by Black Friday.
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Scoop from @kevinvnguyen.bsky.social and myself: Ikea's parent company is ending its partnership with the British firm that had been overseeing its struggling dining complex, Saluhall, since its launch sfstandard.com/2025/11/05/i...
San Francisco IKEA drops its food hall operator
Saluhall has struggled to attract consistent foot traffic since opening in 2024.
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The Bay Area pumpkin carver who wows people with her wild designs (sfstandard.com/2024/10/27/p...) was featured on "Halloween Wars" this year! 🎃
The latest teenage craze is causing headaches at In-N-Out 🙃 www.sfgate.com/food/article...
The latest teenage craze is causing headaches at In-N-Out
In-N-Out's order-numbering style has led to numerous viral videos recently.
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"But seeing the police tape outside 930 Monterey Blvd. left me with a different feeling: eerie familiarity. I’d been welcomed into that same home just months before by the family whose lives were soon to end there." sfstandard.com/2025/10/31/s...
San Francisco murder-suicide: Reporter had contacts with family before deaths
The Standard’s Garrett Leahy visited the Ocheltree-Truong family in the home where they would soon die. New details and old messages shed light on the tragedy.
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Condos are still a great way into homeownership, but natural + human disasters have set off a chain reaction that has essentially iced out buyers in recent years. Follow me into the Oakland Hills, where a dark cloud hangs over this beautiful complex. sfstandard.com/2025/10/30/o...
These Oakland condos are a dream, but insurance is a nightmare
Units at Parkwoods are selling for less than $350,000, but the 400-unit complex on a hill is being blacklisted for its traumatic past.
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Some 10/10 neighborhood name suggestions on this post... Lowest Haight! Zuni-Martuni Triangle! Castration! Mastrobaight! Tendermish! www.instagram.com/p/DQaF2mLk7w...
