Football legend Tom Brady’s business venture into trading cards is off to a smashing start in Northern California — for all the wrong reasons. The former New England Patriot’s brand-new CardVault store in Palo Alto was broken into over the weekend — a little over one week after Brady attended the the grand opening on … Read more
Sections of Highway 101 in San Francisco will fully close on weekends over the next two months — with transportation officials warning drivers to “stay far away.” The California Department of Transportation has been performing repaving work along about 2 miles of the busy highway running between Cesar Chavez Street and the Mission District. Sections … Read more
From party to park. A piece of real estate owned by a 90s crooner will shed its dubious reputation when it opens as a free oceanfront park on August 17th. Don Horsley County Park at Tunitas Creek Beach, located 8 miles south of Half Moon Bay, will become the first major new public beach in … Read more
Since Marcelo Mayer was traded by the Boston Red Sox to the San Francisco Giants during the MLB trade deadline, he’s been anxiously awaiting a new beginning. Mayer’s girlfriend Camryn Bergman posted a video on her TikTok page, showing her and Mayer making their way back to his home state of California while soaking in … Read more
A Bay Area restaurateur has gone viral for charging parents as much as $327 for failing to control their rowdy children at his Chinese eatery Chez Xue. You You Xue, who operates two restaurants south of San Francisco, says he’s slapped financial penalties on parents of spirited tots who smashed credit card readers, carved “designs” … Read more
Fast food fans are saving smarter, not farther, with this price-hunting tool. McDonald’s customers are shocked by the deals they’ve found on the McCheapest map, an interactive food map highlighting the cheapest or most expensive stores by city and state. Their measurement: the Big Mac price of each location. The map is covered with dots, … Read more
No disrespect to Serendipity — I only had its cinnamon fun sundae 100 times growing up in NYC — but now that I’m a parent myself, I’m hoping to introduce my son to broader culinary horizons that still bring the joy of that foot-long hot dog chased with a funhouse mirror level magic. Ahead, nine restaurants … Read more
New area code, same attitude. The Big Apple will start handing out the new area code on June 18, after the city officially ran out of phone numbers for existing area codes. Happening every few years — and bruising your ego along the way — the state board has approved the long-awaited request by wireless … Read more
Oscar-winning actor and filmmaker Tom Hanks took a trip to one of the most novel spots in the Bay Area: a typewriter store. Photos posted on social media by Berkeley Typewriter — which has offered vintage typewriter service repairs for 90 years — showed the star chatting with workers and sitting in front of a … Read more
Bay Area shoppers will have to get their food elsewhere after a Target store in San Jose had its grocery section closed due to a rat infestation. The shop near North Capitol Avenue and McKee Road was shut down by health inspectors after rodent droppings and opened bags of food were found in the store’s … Read more
Issues with the SNY broadcast of Thursday night’s Mets game had fans saying ay caramba. Fans noticed early in the Mets’ final game of a three-game set against the Twins that popular broadcasters Gary Cohen, Keith Hernandez and Ron Darling were not calling the game, as the audio was replaced by Spanish-language broadcasters. A technical … Read more
It’s like salt in a wound. Global warming has been blamed for stronger and more frequent storms, droughts, floods and rare disease outbreaks. Now, it might be fueling kitchen table health crises, too. Researchers are concerned that rising sea levels are contaminating fresh drinking water with seawater — and that the extra salt could have the … Read more
Hawaii health officials have issued multiple brown water advisories across the islands as the state deals with the aftermath of a Kona Low storm. The storm moved through the islands earlier last week, bringing heavy rainfall and runoff that has kept coastal waters contaminated in several areas, the Hawaii Department of Health Clean Water Branch said. Officials … Read more
Gott’s Roadside, the Northern California institution that turned a humble roadside stand into a James Beard Award-winning culinary destination, is finally making its long-awaited SoCal debut. Gott’s Roadside, the Northern California institution that turned the humble roadside diner into a James Beard Award-winning culinary destination, is finally making its long-awaited SoCal debut. The cult favorite … Read more
Not a single California city cracked the top 30 on a list of the most livable metro areas in the US — despite the state’s continued reputation for quality of life appeal, according to a recent study. RentCafe, a top rental search platform, sifted through data from 149 US metro areas, weighing 17 crucial factors … Read more
A viral post featuring a notice from a local McDonald’s restaurant is drawing new attention to concerns about rising crime in Uptown Minneapolis. Attached to a door, the sign reads: “Attention guests, effective Friday, December 5th, our dining room doors will be locked and attended [to] during our normal business hours of 5 am-10 pm to … Read more
You’re about to be schooled on seriously high prices. A new analysis has revealed the astronomical amount of money needed to live in America’s top school districts, with a household income of more than half a million dollars required to be comfortable in two highly sought-after areas. GOBankingRates took Niche.com’s “2025 Best School Districts in … Read more
TSA (Transportation Security Administration) PreCheck has always been a golden ticket to getting ahead in security lines at the airport — and now the system is about to get even quicker at select airports with specific airlines. Typically, travelers with TSA PreCheck must show a boarding pass or ID with the PreCheck indicator before proceeding … Read more
What a rock-block. Australian travel vloggers were shocked when they were slapped with a lengthy list of offenses after visiting the Aussie heritage site Uluru, as detailed in a viral Instagram post. “There’s like 20 lines of fineable offenses,” Britt Cromie spluttered in the clip. She and her husband Tim — who post under the … Read more
Area 51 just got a little more mysterious. The US Air Force’s top-secret Boeing 737-200 aircraft, also known as the RAT55 jet, was spotted soaring over Nevada’s Groom Lake facility, confirming long-rumored ties to the classified base. From 26 miles away atop Tikaboo Peak, a mountain in Nevada, plane-obsessed photographer Michael Rokita recorded fuzzy footage of … Read more