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The Giants Continue to Sell: Heliot Ramos to the Yankees and the Rebuild Continues
The San Francisco Giants have signaled a full commitment to their rebuilding efforts by reportedly trading outfielder…
The Firebells Ring: Kelsie Whitmore, a Springfield Cornfield, and the First Women's Pro Baseball Since 1954
San Francisco has a professional baseball team named for the woman who chased fire engines up Telegraph Hill, and this…
Two Arms for a Batting Champ: Scouting What the Giants Actually Bought
San Francisco traded a three-time batting champion at the deadline and the story wrote itself as loss — Buster Posey's…
Another Planet Sues Its Castro Theatre Contractor Again — This Time Over the Contractor's Website
Another Planet Entertainment has filed a second suit against Alarcon Bohm, the contractor on the Castro Theatre's $41M…
A Stacked August for Bay Area Author Readings — and Most Are Free
From Téa Obreht in Corte Madera to Chang-Rae Lee in the Sunset, August brings a run of marquee bookstore readings…
Unbeatable at Home, Mortal Everywhere Else: De La Salle and the Bay's Football Inheritance
De La Salle enters 2026 unbeaten against NorCal since 1991 and holder of 33 straight section titles, yet 0-for-8 in…
The Least Reliable Word in a Tech Headline Is the Verb
Across a week of Bay Area tech stories — a "relaunch," a "shutdown," a "departure" — the verb in each headline is the…
A $3M Skyway Billboard Is a Cap‑Table Tell. One Leaseholder Is Public; One Hasn't Filed an S‑1.
The SF Standard reports top-tier 101 billboards now rent for $200,000-$250,000 a month.
Vallemar Station Closes After 30 Years in Pacifica's 1905 Railway Depot
Vallemar Station, a steak-and-prime-rib mainstay set inside a 1905 railway depot on Highway 1 in Pacifica, served its…
Webb Owns Texas. Take the Giants at Even Money While Buster Sells Around Him.
Here's the tell in the number: a 47-65 team, on the road, in a hitter's box in Arlington, and the market makes it a…
Atlanta Bought the Arm, Not the Record: The Braves' Buy‑Low on Tyler Mahle
Line not pulled — analysis only. There's nothing live to bet off this one; the whole slate went final hours ago and the…
Buster Posey Learns to Subtract
On August 2, a day before the deadline, Buster Posey traded a rental starter having a bad year to a desperate team for…
Friend's AI Pendant Returns at $249 With a Voice. The Cap Table Hasn't Moved.
Avi Schiffmann's AI companion Friend is back at $249 with a speaker and a $9.99/month memory fee.
On Potrero Hill, Nearly Two in Five Working Adults Now Work in Tech
Census data analyzed by the SF Chronicle puts Potrero Hill and Dogpatch at the top of the city for tech-worker density…
The Richmond's Picture Machine, San Francisco's Oldest Tattoo Shop, Still Inks 50‑Year‑Old Flash
At 5124 Geary Boulevard, Picture Machine Tattoo — in business since 1976 and on the city's Legacy Business Registry…
At the Main Library, Every Copy of the 'Odyssey' Is Already Checked Out
Christopher Nolan's film has driven a national run on Homer's Odyssey, and the San Francisco Public Library's catalog…
Fifty Firefighters and Three Helicopter Drops Put Out a Half‑Acre Fire in Joaquin Miller Park
A vegetation fire in the wooded hills near the Chabot Space and Science Center burned about half an acre off the 10000…
On Front Street, 18 Charli XCX Lookalikes and California's First Entertainment Zone
A Brat-themed block party closed a stretch of Front Street on July 31, complete with a Charli XCX lookalike contest.
The Burrito Boys Are a Dynasty Now: El Farolito Wins Second NPSL Title in Three Years
El Farolito, the soccer team run out of a Mission District taqueria and staffed by cooks, construction workers and…
On Ashby Avenue, a Black Church Trades Its Parking Lot for 50 Apartments It Keeps for a Century
St. Paul AME broke ground Thursday on St. Paul Terrace, a seven-story, 50-unit affordable building rising on the…
‘Hazy Bear’: Guerneville’s 30th Lazy Bear Week Pushes Through Coastal Smoke
Smoke from the coastal Woodside Fire drifted up the Russian River into Guerneville during Lazy Bear Week's 30th…
A Database Is Coming for California's School Janitors. Its Teachers Just Dodged One Again.
A California bill that would have let school districts check whether a teaching applicant had been reported to the…
A Cannabis Café on Valencia, and the Ordinance That Rescued a 10‑Year Bet
San Francisco could be home to the Bay Area's first Amsterdam-style cannabis café by next summer — the payoff of a…
Native or Invasive? The California Gull Boom Reshaping South Bay's Salt Ponds
A gull species that didn't nest anywhere near San Francisco Bay a few decades ago now numbers in the tens of thousands…