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Focus on San Francisco's Quirky & Fun Nature, Say SF Tourism Board Promotion
San Francisco's largest ever ad campaign, "Always in San Francisco," aims to counter negative media portrayal and attract tourists and conventioneers back to the city. The $6 million "full funnel" campaign targets key markets with decision-makers and event planners across the nation.
San Francisco
Asian Population Now Largest Racial Group in the Bay Area, Census Data Shows
New Census data shows that Asians are now the largest racial group in the Bay Area, overtaking whites. The data reveals a growing Asian population, increased percentage of renter-occupied homes, and trends of larger household sizes and fewer children under five years old.
San Francisco
CA Attorney General Agrees to Look Into Banko Brown Shooting Case
California State Attorney General Rob Bonta has agreed to reexamine the evidence in the shooting case of Banko Brown in an effort to seek justice. The incident occurred on April 27 when a security guard shot Brown following an altercation while shoplifting.
San Francisco SoMa
'RIP Twitter' was trending as Twitterverse reacts to Elon Musk's New CEO Linda Yaccarino
Elon Musk's devout army of "free speech absolutists" responded with mixed - often unfavorable - reactions to the planned installation of Linda Yaccarino as Twitter's new CEO. "RIP Twitter" was the #1 trending topic, but has since disappeared.
San Francisco
San Jose (#1), SF (#11) are still among the best places for college grads to look for jobs in 2023 (Report)
SF & San Jose among the top metros for college graduate employment rates. SJ took the #1 spot. New SF hopefuls see 7.5% hiring rate with $94,000 avr. salaries, but San Jose was even better.
San Francisco Bayview Mission Tenderloin
The 2023 Sunday Streets schedule has arrived, and it’s the 15th anniversary season
Six Sundays of car-free community spaces and fabulous family fun are lined up again for 2023, so mark your calendar with the brand new 2023 Sunday Streets schedule for the event series’ 15th anniversary.
San Francisco Bernal Heights
City Hall inexplicably declares war on lovely Bernal Heights sidewalk benches
These lovely sidewalk benches are now being declared "unpermitted encroachments" on Mirabel Avenue in Bernal Heights, with the Public Works department now demanding $1,400 permits for benches that have been there as long as 20 years.
San Francisco Inner Richmond
Slow Street on Lake Street is the controversial wild card as SFMTA decides the Slow Streets’ fate
The SFMTA will decide the fate of nearly two dozen Slow Streets on Tuesday, and it’s pretty clear how they’re going to vote on all of them — except for one, the highly contentious Lake Street, and it’s anybody’s guess what will happen with that one.
San Francisco Tenderloin
Site of the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot in the Tenderloin is now a historic landmark
The SF Board of Supervisors unanimously voted Tuesday to make the entire corner of Turk and Taylor Streets a historic landmark, as the site of the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot that helped spark the LGBTQ rights movement.
San Francisco NoPa Western Addition
Developer abandons plans to build apartment complex at former Divisadero Touchless Car Wash
Plans for a six-story apartment building at Divisadero and Oak Street are now a wash, as the developer has surrendered the property back to the previous owners of Touchless Car Wash.
San Francisco
Another Phoenix Day returns this weekend with family-friendly activity hubs across SF
For the second time this year, Sunday Streets SF — an initiative of the non-profit Livable City that’s goal is to host programs that show the benefits of car-free spaces — will host another Phoenix Day event this Sunday, featuring eleven “Family Fun Hub Destinations.”
San Francisco Mission
On first day, 24th and Mission vendor permit crackdown cleans up the corner quite nicely
The corner of 24th and Mission Streets is less chaotic, cleaner, and free of stolen goods for the first time in about nine months, as a new vendor permitting system is off to a promising start.
San Francisco Mission
SF SPCA is hosting a Clear the Shelters event this weekend and will continue to waive adoption fees
The San Francisco SPCA currently has a good amount of adult dogs and cats up for adoption. In order to help them find their forever homes, the animal rescue is participating in the Clear the Shelters nationwide campaign, which aims to help older pets get adopted.
San Francisco Outer Sunset
Outer Sunset Farmers Market wins 10-month extension, compromise deal on table with St. Ignatius
The battle between a big private school and a little farmers market could end, as Supervisor Eric Mar has brokered a compromise deal, and the Outer Sunset Farmers Market has just won a ten-month extension either way.