A South Bay beginner asked Reddit where to ride without jumps or the risk of clipping a hiker on a blind downhill. The answer is the county's wide gravel fire roads — and Joseph D. Grant has the most of them with the fewest people.
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San Mateo Is Closing B Street for Two Free Block Parties This MonthAugust 23, 2026SF Playhouse's VC Thriller 'R.O.I.' Runs Through Sept. 5 — and the $41 Listing Is WrongAugust 23, 2026San Mateo County Libraries hosts novelist Vanessa Hua at San Carlos on Sept. 13 and cookbook author Clarissa Wei at Foster City on Sept. 19.
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DeMaio Asks the Federal DOJ to Kill an Oakland Democrat's Doxxing Law That Won't Take Effect Until 2027August 23, 2026The Anti-Surveillance Fight Reached the Doorstep of the Billionaire Who Funds ItAugust 23, 2026Drivers crawling past West Oakland on Interstate 880 Saturday night were sure the region's big sewage plant was on fire.
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On Stockton Street, Streetwear Moves Into the Old Luxury Boxes: BAPE Opens at 216, Kith Files at 100August 23, 2026A Reuse Hub in Petaluma, and a Repair-Fair Circuit Rolling Through Marin This FallAugust 23, 2026A grassroots nickname for the East Bay suburb of roughly 70,000 traveled from an October 2025 Reddit thread to $35 hats to the mayor's own dais, where the City Council heard it named at an Aug. 18 meeting.
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The 40-Man Cage: How a Looming Lockout Warps the Giants' Prospect MathAugust 23, 2026In July I wrote about the 49ers' cursed summer — the way a roster can come apart all at once. This is the other half of that story.
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The Remedy Was Designed to Leave the Cause in Place. Twice This Week.August 22, 2026Two of this week's tech stories arrived pre-packaged by sympathetic coverage — a CBS segment, an SF Standard profile.
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Alto 88 Files for a Full-Liquor License Atop The Spear on the WaterfrontAugust 23, 2026'Frdm Coffee' Registers with the City as a Tech Founder's 'Freedom'-Themed Café Takes Shape Near PolkAugust 22, 2026Bi-Rite's planned fourth San Francisco store took its first concrete civic step Aug. 21, filing three ABC license applications for 6001 California St. — a combination that maps to its grocery-plus-prepared-foods model.
