SF News Levi’s Agrees to Pay $170 Million for Ten-Year Extension of Levi’s Stadium Naming Rights Deal Levi’s Stadium will continue to be called Levi’s Stadium until 2043, as the apparel company has agreed to re-up their naming rights deal for $170 million, even though they still have nine years left on their original deal.
SF Politics Pro-49ers Santa Clara Councilmembers File Ethics Charges Against Mayor and 49ers Critic Lisa Gillmor The mud is flying both ways between Jed York’s critics and allies at Santa Clara City Hall, as York’s supporters just lodged a series of ethics complaints at Mayor Lisa Gillmor, whom Jed spent $2.5 million unsuccessfully trying to defeat.
Arts & Entertainment Taylor Swift to Be Named Honorary Mayor of Santa Clara, City to Be Renamed ‘Swiftie Clara’ For two days (and two Midnights), Taylor Swift will be the honorary mayor of Santa Clara, and the city ceremonially renamed “Swiftie Clara,” under a proposal that will be considered tonight by Santa Clara City Council.
SF News President Biden Arriving In Bay Area Today For Multi-Day Visit Biden’s in the Bay Area starting this afternoon to tout a climate project and of course raise money for his reelection campaign, and oddly, Ron DeSantis will be here courting donors tonight too.
SF News BART San Jose Extension Gets $375 Million State Grant, Expects To Start Construction Next Year Another big pile of state money is kickstarting BART’s extension into downtown San Jose and Santa Clara, which will come in handy, as authorities now admit the total project cost will indeed be about $9 billion.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Santa Clara ER Shut Down Briefly By Threatening Person The emergency room at the Kaiser hospital in Santa Clara was the scene of a tense situation this morning, containment of the Washburn Fire has gone down slightly, and the White House has reaffirmed legal protection for emergency abortions.
Arts & Entertainment Great America’s Land Sold to New Owners, It Will Close in Six Years or ‘Up to 11 Years' Santa Clara’s beloved amusement park Great America has been sold, and the new owners will allow it to remain the Great America you know for only another six years, or maybe as many as 11 years.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink First Bay Area Eataly Location Gets an Opening Date, and Here Are Some Food Pics We have a June 16 Grand Opening now officially scheduled for Santa Clara’s Westfield Valley Fair location of the Italian food emporium Eataly, which will be a staggering three stories, 45,000 square feet, and have two dedicated restaurants.
SF News Santa Clara Makes Very Small Exception to Unpopular Levi’s Stadium 10 p.m. Curfew Rule Levi’s Stadium has been a laughingstock concert venue over its nitpicky 10 p.m. concert cut-off, so Santa Clara just changed it — but only for five nights a year.
SF News Most of Santa Clara's Mass Vaccination Sites Are Closing Soon (But That's a Good Thing) With 80% of eligible county residents vaccinated against COVID-19, four of the five mass vaccination sites in Santa Clara County will shutter in the coming weeks. Remaining vaccine appointments in the county will be handled through mobile efforts, pop-up locations, retail pharmacies, and clinics.
SF News Levi’s Stadium Throwing Teen Vaccination Parties With DJs and Oodles of Goodies The vaccine machine that is Levi’s Stadium is offering teens a “Vaxstage Pass” — vaccine shots, with chasers of 49ers swag, locker room tours, and live DJs several nights this week.
Bay Area Sports 49ers' Jed York Makes Lavish Donations In Attempt to Unseat Unfriendly Santa Clara City Councilmembers The 49ers CEO has dropped $3 million ($100 per registered voter!) to elect a new Santa Clara city council that would be far friendlier to billionaire NFL owner interests.
SF News Santa Clara Sees Spike in Fentanyl Overdoses Under Shelter-In-Place Fake oxy and percocet sold on Snapchat have contributed to a tripling of fentanyl overdoses in Santa Clara County, and prosecutors are starting to charge dealers with murder.
SF News Another DoorDash Driver Is Caught Stealing a Package A second DoorDash driver, this time in Santa Clara, was caught on surveillance video being a porch pirate just moments after handing off a bag of food to a customer.
Arts & Entertainment Santa Clara Ramps Up Fight With 49ers, Votes To Take Over Control Of All Non-Football Events At Levi's Stadium Oooo some drama is happening down in Santa Clara following that widely read story about the Rolling Stones never wanting to play at Levi's Stadium again.
SF News One Worker Injured In Four-Alarm Construction Site Fire In Santa Clara A condo complex under construction in Santa Clara went up in flames Friday morning, and one construction worker trying to escape the blaze was taken to a hospital with injuries.
SF News Gang Of Over 100 Teens Terrorize Guests At Great America Halloween Event Things got super scary for guests of a Halloween event at California's Great America Saturday, but the fright didn't come from ghosts or goblins — instead, a large group of
Arts & Entertainment Coldplay Goes Well Past Santa Clara's Curfew (Because Of Course) #Coldplay ends concert 56 min past curfew. @49ers "concerned concerts may not come to Levi's Stadium again unless the music ban is resolved" pic.twitter.com/NuolhRiT4I — Janine De
Arts & Entertainment 49ers Pull Plug On Weeknight Concerts At Levi's Stadium Over 10PM Curfew Readers of SFist's smash hit weekly football feature Daisy Does the Niners are well aware of the myriad, unintended problems with the team’s still new-ish $1.3 billion Levi’
SF News Ed Sheeran Cancels Santa Clara Performance Because Curfew Laws Are Tough Ed Sheeran, who was originally scheduled to play at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara as part of a 2018 tour, has cancelled his Bay Area performance. The show, which was his
SF News Recall Campaign Underway For Judge In Brock Turner Case The now yearlong effort to recall Santa Clara County Superior Court judge Aaron Persky, known nationally for the lenient six-month sentence he handed to the literal poster child for college sexual assault
SF News Idiot Thieves Nabbed After Stealing GPS Tracking Devices From Santa Clara Startup A trio of thieves is feeling pretty stupid this week after they allegedly broke into the offices of Santa Clara "smart logistics" startup Roambee and stole some office equipment. In addition
Arts & Entertainment U2 Concert Goes Past Curfew (10 PM) And Santa Clara Is Mad While Levi's Stadium is able to play host to major concert events despite the fact that the roads around the stadium were really not designed to handle the traffic the 49ers
SF News Teen Driver Plunges Car Into Santa Clara Pool Sometimes it's best to jump in at the deep end of the pool... especially when you're driving a car that would bottom out in the shallow end. That was
SF News David Campos Heads To Santa Clara As Deputy County Executive Campos out! After two terms as District 9 Supervisor and a successful hand-off to his former aide Hillary Ronen who was elected to replace him in November, David Campos is looking south
