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One thing you can always count on at a TC Disrupt conference is an amazing roster of speakers whose collective expertise spans the entire startup ecosystem. We’re well on our way to an impressive cohort, but we’re just getting started — and that’s where you come in.

Eastwind Books of Berkeley is Beatrice and Harvey Dong’s labor of love for the Asian American and ethnic literary community. Founded in 1982, Eastwind Books is an independent bookstore that initially focused on Chinese language books. When it was set to close in 1996, Harvey and Beatrice bought the store, transforming it into one of the leading bookstores in the United States to focus on Asian American and Ethnic Studies.

MONDAY WEATHER: It is a cloudy start for a lot of us this morning. We will see the cloud cover break down for partly cloudy skies later in the day with temps ranging from the 50s to the 80s.

THE SUSTAINABILITY OF the state’s public education system is questioned in a new report from the Berkeley Institute for Young Americans. Part of the California 100 initiative, administered by the Goldman School of Public Policy, the report finds that long-term structural challenges in the state’s finance system, combined with flaws in education governance, threaten the long-term outlook of public education.

The 49ers may have a contingency plan in place if they end up losing defensive coordinator DeMeco Ryans to a head-coaching job next season. The San Francisco 49ers came awfully close to losing all three of their coordinators from 2021. As things turned out, they lost two of them. Special...

The 2022 NFL Draft came and went weeks ago, and neither Cleveland Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield nor San Francisco 49ers veteran Jimmy Garoppolo has been traded or released. Mayfield has clearly lost his starting job to Deshaun Watson but is owed $18.858 million of fully guaranteed salary for 2022, which...

The Golden State Warriors are listing Otto Porter Jr. as probable for Game 1 against the Dallas Mavericks

Click here to read the full article. A new festival in San Francisco is coming out of the gates hot with one of the strongest dance/electronic lineups of this year — or any year. Happening in San Francisco on Sept. 24-25, 2022, Portola will feature headliners Flume and The Chemical Brothers, the UK legends whose only announced North American date for the rest of 2022 is at the festival. The lineup goes on to feature a stunning array of talent including Kaytranada, Jamie xx, Jungle, Charli XCX, Bicep, Fred Again…, Caribou, James Blake, M.I.A., Lane 8, Peggy Gou, Toro Y Moi, DJ...

The Chemical Brothers, Flume, Kaytranada, Jamie XX, Lane 8, and more have been announced to play the debut edition of Portola Festival. San Francisco has continued to get blessed with some fantastic festivals and events for dance music lovers to attend and now in the wake of Coachella, Goldenvoice has announced a fresh experience – Portola Festival. Set to make its debut on September 24-25 at Pier 80, this 21+ festival is already catching plenty of attention with the release of its lineup that’s filled to the brim with some of the best and brightest in the scene right now.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — Shockwaves from the mass shooting in Buffalo, New York are being felt in the Bay Area. “I’m sad to report to the audience that this is just a mirror of America,” said Rev. Amos Brown, leader of the NAACP in San Francisco. Rev....

The San Francisco 49ers did what they could to address offseason needs. They signed Charvarius Ward and drafted two cornerbacks to bolster that position. In addition, they hope to have found a replacement for Dee Ford in second-round draft pick Drake Jackson. There remains uncertainty about who will be playing alongside Jimmie Ward at safety, but the team has options.

Alameda County saw a 22% increase in its homeless population since 2019, and the jump was driven mainly by a nearly 40% increase in people living in cars and RVs, data showed. This is just one of the data points that was released in recent days as Bay Area counties report preliminary numbers from one-night counts of the region's unhoused populations.

Oakland’s homeless population has grown by about 1,000 people since the start of the pandemic, putting the total number of residents living without permanent housing at 5,055, according to new data released Monday. But while hundreds more people are living without permanent housing, many in hazardous conditions, some in...

A group of masked protesters displayed a "White Lives Matter" sign on Saturday in Danville, an act of free speech that has been condemned by the town's mayor. The sign was shown on the same day that an accused gunman allegedly fueled by racism killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket.

A recently released, short documentary entitled “Macdonald Avenue” shares the story about the original “godfather of Richmond” dating back to the late 1800s, Augustin S. Macdonald, and the city’s major thoroughfare. Clocking in at just under 10 minutes, the documentary—produced and directed by filmmaker Doug...

Three suspects were arrested in Richmond this morning in connection with a shooting in a parking lot of a shopping center on 23rd Street in San Pablo last month, police said. The shooting occurred Friday, April 15 in the 2000 block of 23rd Street and left one person with non-life threatening injuries, according to the San Pablo Police Department.

At least one lane of the southbound 101 freeway in San Rafael is closed due to a nearby brush fire. Drivers should avoid the area from Lucas Valley Road to Freitas Parkway.if possible and expect delays if they travel that way, the California Highway Patrol said. The #4 lane or...

ESPN’s Nick Friedell joined 95.7 The Game’s “Steiny & Guru” Monday to preview the Western Conference Finals, saying the Warriors are peaking at the right time.