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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.

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First responders urge caution along the coast as high surf warning looms

First responders and experienced ocean swimmers are warning Bay Area residents to stay away from the water as potentially deadly surf conditions approach the coast. The National Weather Service issued a Beach Hazards Statement through Friday at 6 p.m., followed by a High Surf Warning for the weekend as waves are forecast to grow from 15 to 20 feet up to 30 feet.

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One Last Warm Day Before Monster Waves, Soaking Storms Slam San Francisco Coast

Thursday morning lows in coastal and Bayshore regions are in the lower to middle 50s before temperatures warm to around 70, but the easygoing weather will not last. Rain, gusty winds and dangerous surf move in Friday, setting up a rough weekend along the coast. The Bay Area is getting one more comfortable outdoor window before the forecast turns decidedly wetter.

San Francisco, CA · 21h

Mission Local

Richmond Buzz: New brunch, new pizza, and a new coffee pop-up at High Treason

High Treason, the wine bar that until recently hosted HI NRG, has a new pop-up. Plus, a hyperlocal book club meets this weekend. Richmond Buzz: New brunch, new pizza, and a new coffee pop-up at High Treason

Richmond, CA · 1d

SFist

Super Duper Burgers Opens In Union Square Plaza Kiosk

You can now get a burger — or a chicken sandwich — from well-loved local chain Super Duper in Union Square Plaza. Super Duper opened its 22nd location on Tuesday in SF's Union Square, in the kiosk on the Stockton Street (east) side of Union Square Plaza. The opening brings life back to this kiosk, which in recent years had housed a sort of nondescript cafe, and which had been slated to be an outpost of Tyler Florence's Miller & Lux Provisions, until that plan fell through last year.

SFist

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...

SFGate

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...

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FoodWorldNews

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.

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Altura Credit Union Secures $40,000 Downpayment Grant for First-Time Homebuyer

Altura Credit Union has secured a $40,000 down payment assistance grant for Joshua Reeves, a first-time homebuyer and Altura member, the credit union announced Oct. 21. The grant came through the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco's Middle-Income Downpayment Assistance (MDPA) Program. The program was created to support middle-income households squeezed by rising home prices and interest rates, including many essential workers who earn too much to qualify for traditional assistance but still struggle to save enough for a down payment.

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San Francisco Chronicle

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.

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When housing becomes a billionaire’s investment, working families pay the price

America must confront real estate speculation before ordinary families are priced out of their own communities. A home should be a place to raise a family, not merely another chip in a billionaire’s investment portfolio. Yet across America, and particularly in San Francisco, housing has increasingly become a competition between ordinary paychecks and extraordinary wealth.

San Francisco, CA · 21h

ABC7 News Bay Area

SF bringing back real Christmas tree to Union Square for first time in over 15 years

For the first time in more than a decade, San Francisco's Union Square will feature a real Christmas tree, reviving a holiday tradition that many residents remember from years past.

sfstandard.com

‘Surfing into the apocalypse’: Monster waves are arriving and surfers are stoked

“I’m getting chills thinking about it right now,” said Kyle Ortega. The lifelong surfer lives eight blocks from Ocean Beach, and for the past week, he’s viewed the unusually large swells slamming into the coastline with a complex mix of euphoria and anxiety. Like many surfers, he’s...