Reopening could *finally* be on the horizon for the beleaguered Hotel Whitcomb, which been plaguing Mid-Market for several years sfstandard.com/2025/10/02/h...

BIG NEWS, sports fans! ⚾️🏈🏀 @sfstandard.com is launching a new podcast called Section 415 that builds on the sports team's incisive reporting & brings you exclusive interviews with the people shaping games. Check it out: sfstandard.com/2025/10/01/i...

morning commute on Muni: short woman asks tall man standing behind her if her latest dye covered all her grey hairs. “Yes, m’am, not a single silver strand showing” 🥲

Gutting story about SFPD’s longest-serving detective and the city’s struggles to staff its SVU sfstandard.com/2025/09/30/s...

Tech Bro 2.0: The new Silicon Valley archetype dominating the AI age sfstandard.com/2025/09/29/t...

"...The other essential component of being a local: You have to look people in the eye. You have to take out your headphones and remove your sunglasses. You have to be present in your life, and in the lives of those around you." - Garrett Schlichte sf.eater.com/dining-out/2...

Popular shop Baggu is celebrating its new Mission store opening today with BART merch. This was surprising news to the transit agency 🙃 sfstandard.com/2025/09/25/b...

Scooplet: A hotel right near the cablecar turnaround on Powell Street just sold at auction, meaning that guests will yet again be able to hang with Lilllian Hellman's ghost sfstandard.com/2025/09/26/s...

Great scoop by The Chron: Uniqlo is considering returning to downtown SF www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/u...

Love this from tonight’s Power Play newsletter re: Manny’s supervisor campaign fundraising haul: “‘Right now, I’m just trying to be gracious,’ said Yekutiel, adding that he asked three of his exes to donate. New T-shirt idea: Exes for Manny!” sfstandard.com/newsletters/...

New closures will leave just three chain restaurants in the food concourse of San Francisco’s largest mall.

A group of office brokers kicked off a lively debate last week by trying to rebrand Mid-Market to "Lower Hayes." Here's what small businesses and other neighborhood stakeholders think ➡️ sfstandard.com/2025/09/24/m... co-reported with @kevinvnguyen.bsky.social

yiiiiiiikes www.businessinsider.com/shopify-pull... i

San Francisco is getting a bunny cafe www.instagram.com/bunnycafesan...

"I’ve Written About Loads of Scams. This One Almost Got Me." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...

That was by far the biggest earthquake I’ve ever personally felt in the Bay Area. Wild! bsky.app/profile/eart...

Today in audacious neighborhood rebrands... www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article...

I’m obSESSed with all the entries to the @sfstandard.com dance contest — vote for your favorite!! sfstandard.com/2025/09/18/v...

Compared to folks in SF, "Sunnyvale developers have a much simpler axiom: We have built it, and they have come." sfstandard.com/2025/09/18/s... @kevinvnguyen.bsky.social reporting on the Silicon Valley city that's both boring and booming:

Omg just had to miss not one but *two* BART trains in a row at Embarcadero because they were packed to the gills 😭 We’re so back (at least on Tuesdays sfstandard.com/2025/03/25/i...)

"Anthropic’s San Francisco headquarters is crawling with stuffed albino alligators. You’ll find them on desks, at reception and inside a vending machine." www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...

Waymo is coming to SFO 🚨 sfstandard.com/2025/09/16/w...

"996 may be over as soon as it started. So when 007 inevitably sweeps San Francisco — you heard it here first." @ryajetha.bsky.social reports: sfstandard.com/2025/09/16/s...

Some amazing photos of protestors in this story about Peter Thiel's antichrist talk in SF sfstandard.com/2025/09/16/p...

Remember The Center, the beloved Lower Haight teahouse and events space which closed in June? Former staff and volunteers are bringing it back! sfstandard.com/2025/09/16/t...

Harrowing, horrific and beautifully written story by @griffgaff.bsky.social about the wild aftermath of his near-death experience earlier this year sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...

❤️🔥 HOT OFF THE PRESSES! 🔥❤️ COYOTE Media Collective is live!! We’re so incredibly proud of this smart, fierce, unapologetic Bay Area media project. Dive in, see what we’ve been building, read our stories, and join the pack! coyotemedia.org

Street vigilantes in San Francisco are wielding Narcan ‘like a weapon’ sfstandard.com/2025/09/11/s...

Michael Shvo sells dreams to the richest of the rich. What’s he selling in San Francisco? sfstandard.com/2025/09/10/m...

Woohooo! @sfstandard.com is bringing back Sundown Cinema this fall 🎥🎉🌇 sfstandard.com/2025/09/09/s...

Cute: The Mission Bay branch of SFPL displays the bookmarks people forgot inside their returned library books so people can grab 'em back www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancis...

🚨 GEN Z IS STILL DRINKING, YOU GUYS 🚨 sfstandard.com/2025/09/06/d...

San Francisco’s boom loop in 15 simple charts sfstandard.com/2025/09/06/s...

This is a DEEPLY disturbing story on a surrogacy that went wrong that is sparking a lot of thoughts about the commodification of bodies, surrogacy, ethics, and entitlement.

hell yeah 🤘 sfstandard.com/2025/09/04/v...

😩😩😩😩 alright who’s gonna step up and stop this?!? “Nov. 4 is the planned final day of operations, though the company hopes a buyer will step up to continue the brewery’s legacy.”

Nooooooo! Hell or High Watermelon brewer 21st Amendment says it’s shutting down 😭 www.sfchronicle.com/food/article...

ATTN puzzle lovers: SF's buried treasure has still not been found 🌟 ($21k worth of local biz gift certificates and treats are hidden somewhere in the city — such an amazing idea!) www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancis...

Someone is removing even vaguely critical parts of Mayor Lurie’s Wikipedia page 🧐 sfstandard.com/2025/08/27/s...

So far, the main businesses that have been financially benefited from AI have been the producers of blue books www.wsj.com/business/cha...

"For a long time, we were saying, ‘Thursday is the new Friday,’” Bar Sprezzatura's GM said. “But now Thursday is Friday, and Friday is also back to being Friday.’” @laurensaria.bsky.social reports on FiDi's food and drink revival: sfstandard.com/2025/08/26/n...

A new Steph Curry bar is coming to Union Square baybeeeeee 🥃 @kevinvnguyen.bsky.social reports: sfstandard.com/2025/08/26/m...

Ever a mini-crossword lover, I'm particularly excited about SFGATE's new puzzle, which includes California-themed clues! www.sfgate.com/california-m...

It'd be nice if our favorite joints stayed opened later into the night, but it requires a “hold hands and jump” (aka critical mass) for it to work. @jillianiles.bsky.social on one of San Francisco's most iconic destinations 👇 sfstandard.com/2025/08/25/f...

C'mon San Francisco, this could be us!!!! A modest proposal from @kevinbtruong.bsky.social sfstandard.com/2025/08/22/s...

lol sfstandard.com/2025/08/22/s...

this story is wild (and wildly depressing) pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

"This tone is no accident, and is part of Newsom’s new identity as chief troller to the nation’s troller-in-chief." sfstandard.com/2025/08/21/n...

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