San Francisco Bay Area Events, Things To Do This Week: April 27-May 3, 2026
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Weekly Recommendation
This week’s recommendation is to check out Atherton’s Sounds of Summer Free Concerts. Tickets are up and the folks of Atherton love when people come to visit, park in their streets and enjoy their community events.
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San Francisco Bay Area Weekly News Roundup
Hurabiell blasted for ‘racist’ social media post of Chan & Chakrabarti as socialist stereotypes - SF Gazetteer
Dean Preston’s PUML is punching up -SF Gazetteer
Beloved Bayview shuttle will live another day -Mission Local (see more shuttles)
PG&E launches $10M PAC to take out candidate Tom Steyer -SF Standard
S.F. supe candidate says GrowSF tried talking him out of race, offered to ‘look into’ commission seat -Mission Local
Who is paint bombing Oakland’s Flock cameras? -Oaklandside
Ethics complaint alleges pro-Mahan PAC, campaign illegally coordinated -Mission Local
Oakland spent $2M last year to collect $16k in illegal dumping fines. -SF Chronicle
Eventbrite staff cut, product changes made after takeover -Reuters; I wrote about Eventbrite on Linkedin11+ years ago, way before I started Eddie’s List. I mentioned several (easy) opportunities and was invited to their HQ to talk about it. Nothing changed after that meeting and I am not surprised this acquisition happened. just surprised it didn’t happen sooner.
Sergey Brin Confronted Gavin Newsom at Treehouse Party Then Launched a Political War -Bloomberg
Upcoming San Francisco Bay Area Events This Week
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