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San Francisco’s Golden Gate University plans to find a new downtown campus Golden Gate University is focused on growing its online program. Here’s why it still wants a space in downtown SF.

This downtown SF university gave up its campus. Here’s how it plans to rebuild
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Screenshot from article with text reading the following: Question: Did you make new friends out of this experience? 
 Answer: Yeah, definitely. I think I made some really good friends, people I won’t ever forget. Initially going into it, I didn’t know anybody. But getting there, they take away your phones — that was a really big thing — so we didn’t have our phones really. And we had the joy of being able to talk freely.

Fun Q&A from @jonsteinberg31.bsky.social about what it was like to be one of the human bushes ("grass people"!) during Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show. Particularly loved this tidbit from the participant about how they appreciated their phone getting taken away

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SF mayor working with Laurene Powell Jobs, Jony Ive on secretive SF branding effort Mayor Daniel Lurie has quietly met several times in recent months with philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs, former Apple designer Jony Ive, Gap CEO Richard Dickson, and others, to discuss a branding ca...

Mayor Lurie is working with Laurene Powell Jobs, Jony Ive on secretive SF branding effort 👀👀👀

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ICE protests: San Francisco businesses, students join national strike Protesters gather at Dolores Park on a day of action sparked by the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis.

On the ground reporting from my colleagues this afternoon at the national strike & ICE protest in Dolores Park >>>> sfstandard.com/2026/01/30/s...

Jimmy Butler’s Bigface Coffee comes back to SF While the Warriors star is sidelined with a torn ACL, his brand Bigface will have another pop-up.

H1mmy Butler is out, but his Bigface Coffee is returning to San Francisco just in time for Super Bowl LX per @jillianiles.bsky.social 👇

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Invisible giants: Where AI companies are hiding their offices A lack of signage and public addresses obscures their locations. But we’ve got the dirt on the industry’s footprint in San Francisco.

Unlike in past tech booms, AI companies aren't plastering their names and logos onto office buildings, so it can be hard to know where they're all located.

@kevinvnguyen.bsky.social maps San Francisco's hotspots ➡️🗺️

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How to make the Super Bowl LX your side hustle The Niners are out, so here are your chances to make some cash around the big game.

Want to turn Super Bowl 60 into your side hustle? I found a bunch of temp work positions currently available around the big game, including one that involves getting to be *on the field* during halftime (if you meet veeery specific height requirements) sfstandard.com/2026/01/21/s...

SF tenants displaced by fire face theft, silence from landlord Many say Mosser Companies failed to secure their homes or return calls since a December blaze.

Displaced by fire, then robbed: Tenderloin tenants say landlord left them vulnerable sfstandard.com/2026/01/15/t... @allaboutgeorge.com reports on the devastation

This arts org has lost multiple venues, so it decided to open its own Decentered Arts opened on Folsom Street in one of SF’s last “weirdo-majority” neighborhoods.

“It’s been a story of resistance: We’d get kicked out of one space and find another neighborhood to regroup, and add love and creativity,” Joseph said. “Now, we’re ready to give other artists and collectives a space.”

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Driverless delivery: Woman gives birth in San Francisco Waymo Waymo detected “unusual activity” in the robotaxi and initiated a call to check on the passenger.

Folks... someone gave birth inside a Waymo last night sfstandard.com/2025/12/09/b...

Meet the Lurie-loving crypto bro helping lead Powell Street’s turnaround An unlikely character is spearheading the recent glow-up of one of SF’s most important retail corridors.

An unlikely character is spearheading the recent glow-up of one of SF’s most important retail corridors: sfstandard.com/2025/12/07/p...

a picture of san francisco city hall at night, lit up in a bunch of different colors

City Hall looking pretty darn pretty tonight

Waymo’s Self-Driving Cars Are Suddenly Behaving Like New York Cabbies Autonomous vehicles are adopting humanlike qualities, making illegal U-turns and flooring it the second the light goes green.

Waymos are suddenly behaving like New York cabbies 🥴 www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

Famed San Francisco albino alligator Claude dies at 30 The unofficial mascot for San Francisco recently had a year of birthday celebrations.

RIP to an icon sfstandard.com/2025/12/02/b...

Inside a historic building — and a major San Francisco corridor —  at a crossroads A landmark once poised for a comeback is mired in lawsuits, reflecting broader troubles facing Van Ness Avenue.

Inside a historic building — and a major San Francisco corridor — at a crossroads. Here's the story of how a landmark once poised for a comeback has become mired in lawsuits sfstandard.com/2025/12/01/1...

Rent hike drives out original tenant of Ikea’s SF food hall Vegan Puerto Rican restaurant Casa Borinqueña will exit Saluhall. Izzy and Wooks will move in.

More changes on the horizon for Ikea's Saluhall, Market Street's struggling food hall sfstandard.com/2025/11/24/s...

San Francisco police step up late-night drug raids to appease Trump Officials say the crackdown is linked to the president’s threats to deploy the National Guard and ICE.

San Francisco police ramp up late-night drug raids to appease Trump and feds sfstandard.com/2025/11/24/s...

‘Why would someone own this?’ How this Sunset couple accidentally bought an alley for $25,000 This husband and wife thought a real estate auction offered the chance at a $1 million house for a fraction of the cost, only to find out they were the new owners of “Dirt Alley” instead.

This SF couple made a maaajor alley-oops sfstandard.com/2025/11/21/s...

Another AI company just moved to Union Square Chalk just leased 15,000 square feet in a building on Stockton Street, as the area’s ‘boom loop’ continues.

Union Square's "boom loop" continues sfstandard.com/2025/11/12/u...

Why all the free-stuff Facebook groups you’re part of just changed their name Almost anything can be had through Buy Nothing — except the name.

Why all the free-stuff Facebook groups you’re part of just changed their names

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San Francisco’s China Beach reopens despite federal shutdown A mere $2,500 was enough to keep the sliver of federal waterfront accessible.

"The beach lovers’ initiative is part of a pattern: If the feds can’t get their act together, San Franciscans will just do it themselves."

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San Francisco’s Union Square is about to get a bookstore The Best Bookstore, founded by a couple of famed tech writers, plans to open by Black Friday.

!!! A new bookstore is coming to Union Square — and right on Powell Street no less sfstandard.com/2025/11/05/e...

San Francisco IKEA drops its food hall operator Saluhall has struggled to attract consistent foot traffic since opening in 2024.

Scoop from @kevinvnguyen.bsky.social and myself: Ikea's parent company is ending its partnership with the British firm that had been overseeing its struggling dining complex, Saluhall, since its launch sfstandard.com/2025/11/05/i...

Empty Barneys building in Union Square gets art gallery tenant In another sign of downtown’s recovery, Maybaum Gallery is moving into a historic building that’s been empty for five years.

Some exciting news for San Francisco's Union Square sfstandard.com/2025/11/04/b...

Screenshot from Paulina Goff's Instagram about being on The Food Network's "Halloween Wars" show

The Bay Area pumpkin carver who wows people with her wild designs (sfstandard.com/2024/10/27/p...) was featured on "Halloween Wars" this year! 🎃

The latest teenage craze is causing headaches at In-N-Out In-N-Out's order-numbering style has led to numerous viral videos recently.

The latest teenage craze is causing headaches at In-N-Out
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San Francisco murder-suicide: Reporter had contacts with family before deaths The Standard’s Garrett Leahy visited the Ocheltree-Truong family in the home where they would soon die. New details and old messages shed light on the tragedy.

"But seeing the police tape outside 930 Monterey Blvd. left me with a different feeling: eerie familiarity. I’d been welcomed into that same home just months before by the family whose lives were soon to end there."

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These Oakland condos are a dream, but insurance is a nightmare Units at Parkwoods are selling for less than $350,000, but the 400-unit complex on a hill is being blacklisted for its traumatic past.

Condos are still a great way into homeownership, but natural + human disasters have set off a chain reaction that has essentially iced out buyers in recent years.

Follow me into the Oakland Hills, where a dark cloud hangs over this beautiful complex.

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Some 10/10 neighborhood name suggestions on this post... Lowest Haight! Zuni-Martuni Triangle! Castration! Mastrobaight! Tendermish! www.instagram.com/p/DQaF2mLk7w...