What’s it like to lose to Manny Yekutiel?
Michael Nguyen is ‘disgusted’ that he received fewer votes in D8 than the candidate who suspended his campaign over sexual assault allegations
Valkyries for life
Tattoo artist Regina “Push” Estrada has booked dozens of appointments for Valks tattoos since the WNBA team won the title
Lurie picks City Hall outsider to ‘redesign’ budget process
Jake Berliner brings his decade-plus experience at McKinsey to finding the money to enact the mayor’s priorities
Wage cuts, ‘incompetent’ managers, and a workplace treated ‘like a dumpster’
Two former baristas spill the beans on working at Corgi Cafe
A Fan’s Notes: Love and basketball
Valkyries fans showed up for the Embarcadero parade to give the players their much-deserved flowers
Losing cope: The tech right braces for a brave new world
Soaked by the blue wave, Trump-loving tech bros are shivering over what’s in store
Let the right ones in
The vibes were decidedly different at the election night parties for Scott Wiener and Connie Chan
As his favored measures and candidates swept, the mayor boasted of ‘common sense’
At an election night watch party, Daniel Lurie basked in the support of his team and celebrated voters ‘giving us the tools to govern effectively’
Face Time: Monika Bauerlein is too busy to celebrate
As Mother Jones turns 50 this year, its CEO isn’t looking back
Jung people these days
Plumbing the depths of the Mission’s C.G. Jung Institute, where symbols are interpreted and archetypes are interrogated
Founders from Down Under
Hyped up by AI and their own big ambitions, waves of charmingly-accented Australians are making a splash in San Francisco
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This week: The Valks lose, the mayor gets heckled, and the case for Prop 40
The loneliness of the long shot candidate
Undeterred by dogs, billionaires, and other serious obstacles, attorney J.R. Eppler is running for D10 supervisor
Anthropic has filed for IPO. And so it begins
Plus, is demand for compute high enough to justify all these data centers?
Culture
Face Time: Hunter Pence is a Giant among men
The beloved right-fielder-turned-broadcaster and Renaissance man is full-throttle in his enthusiasm for baseball, San Francisco, and Magic: The Gathering
Politics
Prop. D for Divisive
Is a measure that would make it harder to get future propositions onto the ballot a threat to democracy, or a return to legislative integrity?
Food & Drink
Drinking Companion: There’s room for one more at Last Rites
A Castro bar with a spooky spin on tiki is the perfect Halloween treat
Business
Will success spoil the Richmond?
As the once low-key neighborhood is attracting everyone from Bi-Rite to Zendaya, residents and small business owners are bracing for impact
Technology
More AI researchers defect from Google DeepMind, fueling rumors of a sclerotic strategy inside the company
The three young engineers behind new data startup Data-Limited Regime are claiming they turned down the tech giant’s $300M retention offer
Immigration
Dreamforce protestors demand Marc Benioff ‘defend democracy’
Despite his ICE jokes and closeness to Trump, union organizers and activists believe the Salesforce CEO will still fight for progressive causes
