Pinkies up! Afternoon tea’s having a moment in the East Bay
The East Bay is blooming with afternoon tea services, from British tea inside a preserved Victorian home, to a modern Thai afternoon tea and Filipino kamayan style tea parties. There’s even a fully vegan tea time popup. Afternoon tea is traditionally served with scones and clotted cream, marmalade or...
A free outdoor concert is bringing together 13 Bay Area opera companies
Opera Day in the Bay takes place Sept. 20 at the Transamerica Pyramid Center Redwood Park.
Former KBLX GM Harvey Stone, Quiet Storm Architect, Dies
He is being remembered for his programming philosophy, “music has no color,” that transformed a single station in the Bay Area into a model that reshaped Urban Contemporary radio. Former KBLX General Manager Harvey Stone died on August 4. For 31 years, Stone guided KBLX from Inner City...
Bay Area temperatures to hold steady before heat wave
Mild conditions have prevailed in recent days across Northern California. Experts anticipate that this pattern will soon transition as the Bay Area heat wave develops in early August. Such events can influence everything from outdoor activities to energy consumption. Communities are beginning to discuss strategies for
Marine layer, scorching heat to battle in Bay Area this weekend. Here’s the forecast
Temperatures up to 105 degrees are possible in the interior East Bay, but areas right along the coast will remain cool.
Renowned Bay Area chef sets date to plead guilty in bank robbery case
SAN FRANCISCO — The Bay Area’s most famous alleged bank robber has set a date to plead guilty to at least one federal charge and the reason why might spare him a jail sentence. Valentino Giovanni Luchin is a man in his 60s with two wildly different legacies...
Between San Francisco And San Jose Is A Vibrant Bayside City With A Buzzing...
San Francisco boasts a storied food scene, but it's far from the only spot in the region offering up trendy restaurants and delicious dishes. A smaller alternative to the big city is Hayward, home to 155,000 residents and located between San Francisco and San Jose. The city is perhaps best known for being the site of C
COVID levels are rising fast in the Bay Area as schools reopen
More than half of Bay Area wastewater sites now report high COVID-19 levels, and July concentrations were 136% higher than in June.
Pacifica’s World Dog Surfing Championships are more than viral sensation
The Bay Area has no shortage of events brimming with quirky charm, but few capture the Bay’s eccentricity quite like the World Dog Surfing Championships, held Saturday at Linda Mar Beach in Pacifica. Instagram reels branded the championships — just 30 minutes outside of San Francisco — a “must-see,”...
$12M settlement reached in Sophia Mason case after her 2022 death in Merced
Alameda County has agreed to a $12 million settlement and a memorial dedication following the 2022 death of 8-year-old Sophia Mason, which exposed significant deficiencies within the county's social services agency.
