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Megan Lynch (she/her) @[email protected] · 2026-09-01 · 17:13 UTC

A question for the old school Bay Area folk:

Q: Does anyone know of areas where Bay Area economic exiles have re/created some Bay Area style culture elsewhere? Just stuff like old school Cacophony Society events, cycle culture, salons, open mics, whatever?

#BayArea #Housing #Art #Music

#music #art #housing #bayarea

🕵️old klezmers🎻 @[email protected] · 2026-09-01 · 15:57 UTC

KlezCalYidFest must be one of the clunkiest festival names around but dang that is a great lineup with dance teacher Avia Moore, my favourite klezmer band Veretski Pass, Strauss/Warshauer Duo (also great), and members of Levyosn who just played here in Vancouver. October 9–11 in Berkeley, CA.
https://klezcalyidfest.org/

#klezmer #JewishMusic #Berkeley #Yiddish #BayArea

#klezmer #jewishmusic #berkeley #yiddish #bayarea

Dining & Cooking @[email protected] · 2026-09-01 · 04:21 UTC

Menlo Park deli and restaurant, a mainstay for 45 years, to close https://www.diningandcooking.com/restaurants/18638/ #BayArea #Food #Peninsula #Restaurant #Restaurants

#bayarea #food #peninsula #restaurant #restaurants

San Francisco Baykeeper @[email protected] · 2026-08-31 · 23:37 UTC

The Trump Administration wants to bring a toxic coal export terminal to the Bay Area, right on the Bay's shoreline in West Oakland. We need Newsom to sign #AB40, the Community First Coal Review Act, a bill to protect us from this dirty coal project!

Urge the governor to sign AB 40 into law via our partners at Earthjustice: https://earthjustice.org/action/tell-california-legislators-no-coal-in-west-oakland

#coal #nocoalinoakland #fossilfuels #oakland #bayarea

#ab40 #coal #nocoalinoakland #fossilfuels #oakland #bayarea

Dining & Cooking @[email protected] · 2026-08-31 · 20:55 UTC

Lutticken’s in Menlo Park is set to close at end of September https://www.diningandcooking.com/restaurants/18488/ #BayArea #california #FoodAndDrink #LatestHeadlines #LocalNews #MenloPark #Peninsula #Restaurant #Restaurants #SanMateoCounty #ThingsToDo

#bayarea #california #foodanddrink #latestheadlines #localnews #menlopark

OldCoder @[email protected] · 2026-08-30 · 20:29 UTC

Subject: Driving in San Francisco
For: S.F. Bay Area Drivers
Short link: https://dansu.org/sfdriving

This weekend, one of my attorneys asked me to drive him to the San Francisco Airport. This is the response that I sent him.

My San Francisco Story

I’ve driven people to the S.F. airport before. However, I don’t have the tracking device that’s required now to cross the Bay Bridge into the city. The State snail-mails me “violation notices”. I need to drive to Silicon Valley to pick up the notices. Then I need to navigate phone trees multiple times.

It’s a total PITA.

One highly autistic engineer friend, now disappeared, was angry that the State had started to call it “violation notices”. I agree that the term is irritating.

For former #Minetest #Luanti people, the friend was Bear and the time period was 2015 to 2020. He used the Chinese name Xiong Changnian online, but we met a few times IRL and he wasn’t Chinese.

On a lighter note, the last time that I drove to S.F. [to drop a couple off at the airport] the drive in was easy. However, I couldn’t get out of the city.

I was trapped in San Francisco.

Picture traffic backed up from the Bay Bridge to the city center. 1.5 miles of bumper to bumper all trying to leave at the same time.

I should have driven South on Highway 101 and taken the long way. Down to Highway 92 and then East across the bridge to Hayward.

Instead, I tried the Golden Gate Bridge. It would be a scenic drive, I told myself. The reality is that took me 6 hours of mundane driving to find a way back to the East Bay.

BART [the local train system] doesn’t work as an alternative. Parking at BART is full before the sun rises. I don’t know how payment works there regardless.

Have you noticed that, in San Francisco, the intersections are full of stopped cars? Including police cars. It isn’t clear what it’s legal to do, but you need to decide quickly and with the police parked right there and trapped themselves.

The best part is what happens when I drive up the San Francisco hills. People tailgate. On steep hills. WTH. If we have to stop for a red light, when I release the parking brake, there’s a chance that I’ll roll back and hit the tailgater behind me.

Tailgaters need to be in prison. They could make bumper stickers there. “Tailgate is Second Rate, Mate.”

Parking. Let’s talk about parking.

Bear, the lost associate who I mentioned above, lived in a cab in S.F. Note: He was a skilled electrical engineer, but there was no work and he was autistic besides.

Bear said, “There is parking. You just don’t know what a parking place looks like here.”

He meant, be creative. I suppose that a S.F. native knows how to do that and not be arrested.

In general, there is no parking. I parked once in S.F., legally, and was ticketed in minutes. There was no “No Parking” sign.

There was a website to fight tickets of this type. However, the city had threatened the website because tickets are a source of funding. So, the website had shut down.

San Francisco has important businesses, restaurants to try, and community spirit. I’d like to speak with more of the activists there.

However, I don’t plan to drive in the city again. Not in this or any other lifetime. If somebody drives me, that’s different.

For readers who remember Bear aka Xiong Changnian [not many but there are some] he was able to move from his cab into a van.

However, a drunk driver smashed into the van while Bear was sleeping.

The drunk driver was doing about 80 MPH. The van was totaled and, while Bear was in the hospital, his possessions, including, IIRC, his drivers license and birth certificate, disappeared. San Francisco didn’t require the tow company that took the wreckage of his van to account for the possessions.

Bear himself disappeared a few months after that. I tried to help, but he was pretty far gone.

I learned about how the homeless system works in San Francisco from Bear. I’m not impressed by that. It’s another story.

But on a humorous note I’ll mention that Bear once urged me to move into the space underground next to an office building and live there.

The idea was that I’d break into the office on an as-needed basis. Bear said that I’d be able to use the bathrooms and the power grid and might not be caught. It was better than what most cities offered to people without housing.

I declined to try this. My life as a transient was interesting enough as things stood.

#sanfrancisco #driving #homeless #bayarea

#bayarea #driving #homeless #sanfrancisco #luanti #minetest

Logan Byrne @[email protected] · 2026-08-30 · 15:44 UTC

I wrote an article for my business site about Local, Community-Supported Freeform radio. Specifically, how to get on it as a recording artist.

The stations I can pick up in the Bay Area are: #KALX, #KXSF, #KZSU, #KPFA, #KFJC, #KPOO, and the #KEXP syndicated station.

https://panamasound.com/east-bay-music-scene/getting-play-on-local-radio-stations/

#radio #freeform #community #bayarea #fm #dj #independentmusic

#kalx #kxsf #kzsu #kpfa #kfjc #kpoo

Dining & Cooking @[email protected] · 2026-08-29 · 10:16 UTC

Palo Alto: SAJJ Mediterranean restaurant heading to Stanford https://www.diningandcooking.com/2791144/palo-alto-sajj-mediterranean-restaurant-heading-to-stanford-2/ #BayArea #california #ContraCostaCounty #EastBay #FoodAndDrink #LatestHeadlines #LocalNews #Mediterranean #MediterraneanRestaurants #MenloPark #MountainView #news #PaloAlto #peninsula #Restaurants #SanBruno #SanJose #SanMateo #SanMateoCounty #SanRamon #SantaClaraCounty #SouthBay #sunnyvale #ThingsToDo #TriValley

#bayarea #california #contracostacounty #eastbay #foodanddrink #latestheadlines

Dining & Cooking @[email protected] · 2026-08-29 · 07:50 UTC

Palo Alto: SAJJ Mediterranean restaurant heading to Stanford https://www.diningandcooking.com/restaurants/17592/ #BayArea #california #ContraCostaCounty #EastBay #FoodAndDrink #LatestHeadlines #LocalNews #MediterraneanRestaurant #MediterraneanRestaurants #MenloPark #MountainView #news #PaloAlto #Peninsula #Restaurants #SanBruno #SanJose #SanMateo #SanMateoCounty #SanRamon #SantaClaraCounty #SouthBay #sunnyvale #ThingsToDo #TriValley

#bayarea #california #contracostacounty #eastbay #foodanddrink #latestheadlines

PrivacyDigest @[email protected] · 2026-08-29 · 03:15 UTC

Cities terminate #Flock contracts at record pace in August

New data compiled by a #BayArea anti-surveillance #advocacy group shows that not only are American localities dropping cameras from #FlockSafety ,but they are doing it at an accelerating rate.

Communities from #Lansing , #Michigan , to #Pflugerville , #Texas , are ending their relationship with Flock, largely over concerns regarding out-of-control #surveillance , unwanted data sharing, high expenses, and reports of #police abusing the tool.
#privacy #security #alpr

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/cities-terminate-flock-contracts-at-record-pace-in-august/

#alpr #security #privacy #police #surveillance #texas

Dining & Cooking @[email protected] · 2026-08-28 · 19:23 UTC

Palo Alto: SAJJ Mediterranean restaurant heading to Stanford https://www.diningandcooking.com/2790277/palo-alto-sajj-mediterranean-restaurant-heading-to-stanford/ #BayArea #california #ContraCostaCounty #EastBay #FoodAndDrink #LatestHeadlines #LocalNews #Mediterranean #MediterraneanRestaurants #MenloPark #MountainView #news #PaloAlto #peninsula #Restaurants #SanBruno #SanJose #SanMateo #SanMateoCounty #SanRamon #SantaClaraCounty #SouthBay #stanford #sunnyvale #ThingsToDo #TriValley

#bayarea #california #contracostacounty #eastbay #foodanddrink #latestheadlines

Dining & Cooking @[email protected] · 2026-08-28 · 17:49 UTC

Palo Alto: SAJJ Mediterranean restaurant heading to Stanford https://www.diningandcooking.com/restaurants/17368/ #BayArea #california #ContraCostaCounty #EastBay #FoodAndDrink #LatestHeadlines #LocalNews #MediterraneanRestaurant #MediterraneanRestaurants #MenloPark #MountainView #news #PaloAlto #Peninsula #Restaurants #SanBruno #SanJose #SanMateo #SanMateoCounty #SanRamon #SantaClaraCounty #SouthBay #stanford #sunnyvale #ThingsToDo #TriValley

#bayarea #california #contracostacounty #eastbay #foodanddrink #latestheadlines

Berkeley Blogger @[email protected] · 2026-08-27 · 13:13 UTC

Little Plearn is a Thai restaurant in Downtown Berkeley that specializes in huge, inexpensive portions of mouthwatering Thai food.

Read my full blog post here:

https://bayareaexploreer.blogspot.com/2026/08/little-plearn-lot-of-good-thai-food-for.html

#food #blogpost #california #bayarea #foodie #berkeley #bayareaeats #berkeleyfoodie #thaifood #bigportions #budgetfriendly #affordableeats #yum #thaicuisine #downtownberkeley

#food #blogpost #california #bayarea #foodie #berkeley

christen 💻 🎨📍 san francisco @[email protected] · 2026-08-26 · 06:10 UTC

Sunday 2PM: This masked manchild rolled up to Dolores Park with a megaphone in order to assault hundreds of people's ears/minds with "radical" disjointed takes for over two hours. His message: "We live under fascism -- stop doomscrolling, come together, *do* something." Very clearly unread on any revolutionary history/theory (a feat in the Bay Area imo). When confronted, he'd say to everyone, "Any of you are free to call the police." An elderly neighbor that lives nearby told me he did the same thing last weekend, also for over two hours. His rant was so grating that many of us had to move to the other side of the park.

Here he is today at 5pm, at it again outside 16th Mission BART. If he actually wants to help people, why not join a real grassroots effort...? My guess: he's either a useful idiot or paid to perform.

Anyone here recognize him?

#dolorespark #sanfrancisco #sfpol #missiondistrict #acab #rant #blog #bayarea