San Francisco Bay Area Events, Things To Do This Week: July 28, 2025
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Weekly Recommendation
This week’s recommendation is the quesabirria tacos from Frank Grizzly’s in the Bayview. If the quesabirria tacos are not your jam, highly recommend checking out their breakfast burrito.
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San Francisco Bay Area Weekly News Roundup
—Curated mix of local/state news; see local publications, independent media list here—
I couldn’t fit all the news in this week’s email, so see the rest of them online here.
Temple SF Owner Buys Historic Oakland Greyhound Site for Event Venue, Housing -SFist
S.F. plan would make it easier to break up big retail spaces. Merchant groups aren’t happy. -Mission Local
Oakland Bioremediation Experiment Could Offer Cheaper, Safer Toxic Cleanup -SF Public Press
Immigrant’s account of living, working, & raising a family in SF under threat of ICE raids -SF Gazetteer
‘We’re Not Learning Anything’: Stanford GSB Students Sound Alarm Over Academics -Poets & Quants
Greeat Mall welcomes 18 new retail and dining options in 2025 -Milpitas Beat
S.F. in talks w/ Vanderbilt about a downtown campus. -SF Chronicle
Largest hot pot chain in China opening at Serramonte Mall -KRON4
Union Left in Dark Over Possible Police Accountability Attorney Layoffs -SF Public Press
San Jose parking garage construction shutters micro-retail -San Jose Spotlight
Randall Museum focuses on ‘really meeting people where they’re at’ -SF Examiner
1/5 of California homes are investor-owned as state’s affordability crisis deepens – report -The Guardian
She kept challenging one of California’s biggest health insurers. Then, it tried to cut her off -CalMatters
Pew Research Confirms Google AI Overviews Is Eroding Web Ecosystem -Search Engine Journal
City Hall To Light Up Special Colors For Dead & Co Concerts This Weekend
Sam Altman warns there’s no legal confidentiality when using ChatGPT as a therapist -TechCrunch
Ferry Building News: Red Bay (coffee cocktails); Epicurean (cocktails) -SFBizJournals
SF’s Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does It Mean? -KQED
San Francisco Bay Area Events This Week, Things To Do
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More events in the monthly calendar, (more exclusive, intimate one-time events as well as ongoing events, exhibits and festivals).
More events this week in the July/August calendars (updated today, including events just outside the Bay Area, ongoing events, exhibits & more that I couldn’t fit below).