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Meet UMNI: The Retired SF Muni Bus Getting a Second Life as a Roaming Speakeasy

“I don’t know what we’re gonna do with it. We gotta go look at it.”. Those were the words lifelong San Francisco resident Oliver Sellman said to his childhood friend Santiago Rollo after stumbling across a Muni bus for sale on Facebook Marketplace. The two made the spontaneous drive to Sacramento, using the time on the road to brainstorm ideas for what they could do with the bus. After batting around a few possibilities, they landed on one that stuck: What if we turned it into a mobile speakeasy? While they didn’t end up purchasing that particular bus, they held tightly onto the idea. They eventually found another retired Muni bus and teamed up with Marc Velten-Lomelin, who would help shape the project’s creative identity and bring the concept to life. Just like that, UMNI was born.

San Francisco, CA · 2d

San Francisco Examiner

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UC Law SF is barreling ahead with a $288 million redo of a historic tower

UC Law San Francisco’s $288 million renovation of a nearly 100-year-old tower at the edge of the Civic Center and Tenderloin neighborhoods crossed a major milestone in recent days with the completion of major structural work on the building’s gutted core. “We got the building topped off before the rains come,” said a clearly pleased David Seward, UC Law’s chief financial officer. Seward is helping lead the transformation of the 28-story tower — once the West Coast’s tallest hotel skyscraper — into a modern hub of student housing, classrooms, athletics and more. Construction crews had removed the entire top floor, which left the hollowed core exposed to allow for construction work. Now, the hole has been covered, and the crane that has loomed over the site can come down. Upon completion — which is projected for next winter — the reincarnated art deco and Gothic revival structure at 100 McAllister St. will be a crown jewel in UC Law’s expanding “Academic Village,” which includes several buildings on two blocks in which the school will have invested about $750 million since 2016, Seward said. The tower at the northwest corner of McAllister and Leavenworth streets, which UC Law acquired for student

San Francisco, CA · 1d

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T&T Supermarket Fills a Decade-Empty Former Best Buy on Geary Boulevard as San Francisco Loses Neighborhood Grocers

T&T Supermarket opened its first San Francisco store on Nov. 5 at City Center, 2675 Geary Blvd., filling a former Best Buy space that had been vacant since 2017, according to SFist. The roughly 50,000-square-foot store at Geary Boulevard and Masonic Avenue is the Canadian chain's second California location and fourth in the United States.

San Francisco, CA · 2d

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Berkeley's Fourth Street Gets a Turkish Makeover With Divan's Labneh and Pide

Divan has opened at 1788 Fourth St., in the former Pollara Pizzeria space on Delaware Street, behind Peet's and past the Vino! wine shop. The restaurant began serving lunch in late June and added dinner service in August, bringing Turkish dishes including pide, mezze and kebabs to Berkeley's Fourth Street corridor.

Berkeley, CA · 1d

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Stanford Medicine and Sutter Health inaugurate new cancer center

Stanford Medicine and Sutter Health inaugurated a new cancer center in Oakland on Monday morning. The Stanford Medicine Sutter Health Cancer Center is located on Sutter Health’s Alta Bates Summit Medical Center campus in the city’s Pill Hill neighborhood. According to a news release from Stanford Medicine, the...

Oakland, CA · 2d

San Francisco Chronicle

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Lego resale store coming to an unexpected San Francisco neighborhood

A former Inner Richmond grocery is getting a new tenant with a very different kind of inventory: The Missing Brick, which sells used Lego sets, Minifigures and rare parts.

San Francisco, CA · 2d

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Waymo Tailgates, Tries to Pass CHP Blockade In SF While Another Drives Around With Ticket

Two Waymos were caught on camera behaving badly in SF Tuesday, with one attempting to maneuver around CHP patrol cars on I-280 and another cruising through the city with an SFMTA parking ticket stuck to its windshield. ABC7 shared a video on social media Tuesday showing a Waymo speeding past...

San Francisco, CA · 2d

San Francisco Chronicle

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Berkeley Rep’s ‘Covenant’ is the lightning bolt Bay Area theater needed

York Walker’s lean, suspenseful and relentlessly entertaining Southern Gothic riffs on the legend of blues musician Robert Johnson, theater critic Lily Janiak writes.

Berkeley, CA · 1d

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Salt & Straw ice cream chain with viral following opens in this Bay Area city, drawing crowds

OAKLAND, Calif. - A popular artisanal ice cream chain known for its unconventional, creative flavors is expanding in the Bay Area. On Wednesday, viral sensation Salt & Straw launched a soft opening at its new location in Oakland. Long line out the door. On a warmer than usual November evening,...

Oakland, CA · 1d

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San Francisco supervisor wants to permanently close Castro gas station

Gary McCoy is the latest San Francisco politician calling to convert gas stations into housing. “We’ve got two gas stations in the Castro,” McCoy said during the debate at the Commonwealth Club. “Do we need two gas stations in the Castro? Probably not.”. The once-ambitious policy might...

San Francisco, CA · 1d

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Oakland School Board Weighs Fate of East Bay Innovation Academy's High School

East Bay Innovation Academy — Approximate Site Of Grade Elimination. Oakland Unified School District's Board of Education is set to decide Thursday whether East Bay Innovation Academy can permanently shrink from a 6-12 charter school into a middle school serving only grades 6 through 8. The vote caps months of upheaval that began when the school's own governing board moved to eliminate its high school grades before securing district sign-off.

Oakland, CA · 1d

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Federal changes threaten health insurance subsidies for 29,000 Bay Area immigrants

OAKLAND, Calif. — Covered California kicked off its 2027 open enrollment campaign Friday, Nov. 6, during a media and community event in Oakland, bringing together state health officials, healthcare advocates and community representatives to explain insurance options and financial assistance available to California residents amid significant federal policy changes.

Oakland, CA · 21h

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JSB, Faulkner Buy Bay Area Asset, Eye Affordable Conversion

The 1976-completed property underwent renovations prior to the sale. JSB Capital Group and Faulkner Capital Partners have purchased Bayfair Apartments, a 135-unit multifamily property in San Lorenzo, Calif., with plans to designate part of the apartments as affordable housing. Fuller Enterprises previously owned the asset, Yardi Matrix data shows. Berkadia...

San Lorenzo, CA · 1d

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Three Cal players to watch against Virginia Saturday afternoon

It won't exactly be like looking in a mirror, but Virginia and California have several things in common as they prepare to meet Saturday in Scott Stadium. Both

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