Dance bar and happy hour spot Tope is reopening this weekend with a new parklet, new cocktail menu, a complete interior redesign, and some sweet new neon.

Café Flore was an LGBTQ+ haven in the Castro neighborhood for over 45 years. Now, the space will finally come alive again later this year under a new owner, who was a former customer.

The Arena Hotel in downtown San Jose will be converted into housing for homeless people in the near future thanks to Governor Gavin Newsom’s Project Homekey program.

Two high-profile crimes in San Jose appear to have a couple of things in common. A tiny, charismatic church inside a home in the O’Brien Tract neighborhood has been connected to both investigations, and both crimes involved very young children.

Cruising was originally banned as a way to deter crime and traffic-related infractions from gatherings of cars slowly rolling down an urban street, but the Latino community looks at the ban as highly discriminatory, since cruising lowriders on city roads has been a part of the culture since the 1940s. 

A Bay Area baker who slings his uber-popular cheesecakes at farmers’ market booths is now about to open up a brick-and-mortar location in Oakland to sell his sweet treats and much more.