Within the sterilized basement walls of Lumon Industries, employees have their memories surgically split between work and personal lives. Their “outies” selves occupy blissful, fulfilled lives, completely unaware of the tedious torture their workplace personas — the “innies” — must endure, confined to a world of pressed wood and fluorescent lights.

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“A Trump promise could be ‘catastrophic’ to California’s wine industry,” a Nov. 13 San Francisco Chronicle headline read. “Farm ranchers in my district already have trouble filling the jobs they have available,” said Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Napa.

The San Francisco real estate market experienced a mix of highs and lows throughout 2024, with moments of progress and setbacks. National and local elections rattled the fall, fueling uncertainty about the potential for a new administration. The rate of inflation cooled from 3.1% to …

Feb 5, 2025 · Local News from Marina District and Bay Area of San Francisco, California

On opening night, the festival kicks off with a preparty at Presidio Kebab across the street from the Vogue, followed by the provocatively titled “How to Have Sex” — a layered, wry, and brutally honest depiction of three teenage girls exploring their sexuality, which won a jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival for first-time director Molly Manning Walker.

In Southern Italy, where my grandfather was born, they celebrate La Vigilia in anticipation of the midnight birth of the baby Jesus. It was first introduced to America in the late 1800s in New York’s Little Italy, where my grandparents lived upon their arrival to …

On Jan. 29, 2020, I awoke to texts, emails, and calls from workers, City Hall insiders, and loyal readers of this column. Just 10 months prior I penned a piece about Mohammed Nuru, director of San Francisco’s Department of Public Works, and his history of corruption under four mayors.

Over a year ago, I broke the story of Department of Public Works boss Mohammed Nuru’s corruption, his romances with Mayor London Breed and Sandra Zuniga, and the way City Hall has ignored dirty politics for decades. Since then Nuru has been arrested, Zuniga has been charged with laundering money for Nuru, and the heads keep rolling.

Fate works in mysterious ways. On Wednesday, September 27, 2023, I tweeted a video on X of a brazen smash and grab near San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts, one of the most notorious tourist spots in the city for car break-ins. “10 a.m. today — SMASH & GRAB AT PALACE OF FINE ARTS: Hungarian tourists decided to stop before getting on plane home, now all …