The line for Free Comic Book Day at Cape & Cowl is around the block at noon, with most people toting food donations for the Alameda Food Bank. Looks like it will be a big #FCBD in Oakland this year. Read about it for free here: www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

Tomorrow is one of my favorite days of the year: Free Comic Book Day. So I wrote about the East Bay comic book scene that created this global event and is seeing a resurgence in recent years - and in honor of FCBD, it's free to read for all! www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

Hawks fans, a week ago: No matter what happens from here, we scared a legit team in the playoffs and have momentum for next season. I'm with this team. Hawks fans, today: That's the biggest dump any playoff team has ever taken on its home court. I can't even with this team.

This is a rare type of story, but one of my favorites: The "Check out the news we spotted walking around the city on a break" story! Biz Times Managing Editor Owen Thomas saw Mayor Daniel Lurie chatting with a group yesterday, and one of them was newsworthy. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

Join us at our annual Biotech Forum on May 12. This will be a special one: Ultragenyx founder and CEO Emil Kakkis will get our 1st Legacy Award, then I'll sit with Kakkis and Ryan Dant, the 1st patient Kakkis treated with his MPS enzyme replacement therapy. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

I'm legit surprised this thread isn't getting more attention.

Some excellent news - the restaurant space at the foot of the Tribune Tower that has been empty since Pierre Pierre moved out will soon be filled with a taste of New Orleans. Nola's Daiquiri Bar & Kitchen will bring boozy slushies and more to downtown Oakland. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

NEW: Elon Musk took $500 million in loans out at SpaceX, a move that would have been illegal at a public company. It’s just one example of the years of financial engineering he’s been able to get away with. Latest investigation with @susannecraig www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/t...

BREAKING: San Francisco's Ghirardelli Square, a waterfront icon, has been sold to a partnership of out-of-town investors, the Business Times has exclusively learned. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

A little more than three years after a spectacular collapse, Silicon Valley Bank is officially done: First Citizens is ditching the brand later this year. The CEO told us it was a "logical next step." www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

I have no inside knowledge, but I would wager my life savings that ChatGPT crafted this announcement and just hallucinated the Bruno Mars part ...

so yeah, HW3 is formally cooked, and now it's pretty clear that V14 is also formally cooked another year, another chip, another release... and decade two of this apparently endless scam keeps on rolling

Fun fact: the guy (Hung Cao) who now leads the US Navy claimed that Monterey, California (median home price $1.2M) had been taken over taken over with witchcraft. www.montereycountynow.com/opinion/mcno...

Safeway has been planning housing at store sites around the Bay Area, but now it will replace a store - and it isn't a Safeway. Parent company Albertsons will build senior housing on the site of a Trader Joe's in Oakland that competes with two nearby Safeways. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

LendingClub for nearly 20 years has promised the dream of a previous generation of the internet: Taking out the middleman and letting people deal with each other. Now, the CEO admits that dream is dead. It is just a bank, and will no longer be called LendingClub www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

Tim Cook chose 4/20 to be like, "I'm a billionaire, I don't need to put up with this anymore." Toke away, Tim.

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

oh so now it's illegal to put on a little play with your friends

Made it to Saints Smokehouse in Oakland about an hour after it opened. As we got in line, the mac and cheese sold out. As we got to the register, the ribs sold out. As we got our smoked wings and brisket, they announced everything was sold out, about 2 hours after opening. Get here early!

Kash Patel’s colleagues are alarmed by what they say is erratic behavior and excessive drinking, Sarah Fitzpatrick reports. More than two dozen people she spoke with described his management failures and conduct that could harm national security. theatln.tc/SS6krazR

I don't know who needs to hear this — anyone? everyone? — but whatever you do, do NOT give Sam Altman your eyeballs. You will never get them back and you have no idea what he'll do with them. If anyone asks you for your eyeballs, you should run away as far and as fast as you can.

How did anyone in that crowd stop from busting out laughing at this idiot by a dozen words into one of the most famous diatribes in movie history being read as an actual prayer?

AI executives can only promise to build a digital god that might destroy the world, declare that they're going to replace a vast swath of everyone's jobs, and work directly to subvert democracy for so long before people, some of whom *take their words at face value*, will decide to act.

Here are my top 10 dog and news reporter interactions!

Former Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf had not taken a permanent full-time job in 3+ years since leaving city hall - until now. I spoke with Libby on Sunday about her next role as CEO of the Bay Area Council, why she picked this job and what she will prioritize. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

Artemis II splashdown!

New from me on @reuters.com: Anthropic is starting to explore the possibility of designing its own chips, per sources. Details and more info in the story.

my best guess is that a Trumpian Pentagon official, high on his own supply as they all are, thought "get your boss to play ball or we will do an Avignon on him" would genuinely intimidate AN 80-YEAR-OLD CARDINAL FROM FRANCE, which is perhaps the funniest thing anyone has ever done at the Pentagon

“.. Better TACO Tuesday than World War III,” said one European official .. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

I've never read an @esksf.bsky.social column that would have the average San Francisco Business Times reader vigorously nodding and likely fist-pumping. Until today.

Any Christian who voted for a man who would threaten to bomb civilian infrastructure in a foreign country in this manner on Easter Sunday should pray for a lot of forgiveness today.

ROSENBERG, on jobs data: “.. If there was a blemish, it was that the workweek sagged -0.3% to 34.2 hours. .. in a holistic sense, .. payrolls actually declined by -284k: Tack on the revisions, and it is really -353k. .. Sorry, but we are not gullible enough to be a buyer of this report ..”

It's honestly kind of mind-blowing that this is the first time in over fifty years that anybody has been able to take a picture like this. Images of the earth are completely familiar to us, but a human hasn't pointed a camera at the whole planet for half a century.

woof.

Embarrassing, ESPECIALLY on April Fools Day.

Doctors Without Borders calls out Gilead on lenacapavir access www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

CBS turned their news operation into propaganda, kicked Colbert off the air for making too much trouble, and all that just to have Charles Barkley go on the air on one of their most-watched telecasts of the year and say this lmao

Tron ass broadcast.

The Netflix broadcast looks washed out as hell, except for that ad ...

It takes great restraint as a headline writer to be presented with all-time material and play it straight with just the facts. Kudos.

1/ whenever long time tesla / musk company reporters hear him offering charity we all have stories of how & why his offers tend to be… complicated: www.cnbc.com/2019/10/08/t... the thai kids stuck in a flooding cave system? he offered (ultimately useless, not feasible) mini subs…

i have no inside knowledge but this has the vibe of the villain in a thriller executing one of the hostages just to discipline the rest

MY LATEST @latimes.com ‬⁩ COLUMNA: The grief behind the cascade of online Dolores Huerta photos. Share, porfas!

That sound you hear is every Georgia fan googling "How long is Mike White's contract?"

great piece on the collapse of the Tesla cult by @milesklee.bsky.social you should really subscribe to @wired.com www.wired.com/story/the-te...

Alysa Liu and Ryan Coogler, god bless Oakland

My Dunkyard Dawgs about to take it to Larry Blurred here.

If your "Best Bay Area ice cream" list ignores East Bay legends like Fenton's, Loard's and Tucker's and instead gives love to nondairy $8 hipster scoops, maybe take a beat to think about what you're actually trying to accomplish.

New from me: This week is the three-year anniversary of the meltdown and ensuing bailout of Silicon Valley Bank, which saved billions for some of tech's loudest titans. And then they were very grateful to the Biden admin and everyone lived happ-- <earpiece buzzes> Hold on slate.com/technology/2...