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After 20 years of flawless and scandal-free performance, SF Department of Elections Director John Arntz, one of the most effective and hardest-working people in City Hall, won't have his contract renewed because of a racial equity plan.When San Francisco Department of Elections director John Artz took over his job in 2002, the department was reeling from a series of embarrassing scandals, and had been through five directors in just seven years.

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It ought to have ample square footage filled with spacious rooms for both resting and entertaining; gorgeous interior design and thoughtful details; and totally unnecessary, lavish extras like a gym and a wine cellar.And it absolutely must have a prime location with killer views.Originally built in 1923 and the recipient of an extensive renovation by Sutro Architects and JKA Interior Design, this house at the edge of the Presidio has it all, with Golden Gate Bridge views to boot.

24 Photos View Slide Show  Balboa Island is a community with a small-town feel within the city of Newport Beach.This recently renovated house, which has been in the same family for decades, is a few blocks from Marine Avenue, a thoroughfare with numerous businesses, including an Italian restaurant, beachwear shops and a retro-style candy store.

Wood and cement wrap the exterior of a hillside, family home designed by California studio Feldman Architecture to feel like a "space of serenity".The Rau Haus was built for a couple with a young daughter that desired a more spacious home after years of living in dense San Francisco.They found a property south of the city in Portola Valley, a town on the eastern side of the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Geddes Ulinskas Architects recently finished a stunning home in Cow Hollow, San Franciso, marked by an exquisite cast glass staircase.Occupying 12,000 square feet on a 0.26-acre lot, the home features abundant indoor-outdoor spaces and intricate stone detailing.And not to mention it looks out to the Golden Gate Bridge!

Local studio Geddes Ulinskas Architects has completed an expansive home in Cow Hollow, San Francisco with indoor-outdoor spaces, a cast glass staircase and stone detailing.The Bay Area studio designed the 12,000-square foot (1,114-square metre) home on a vacant 0.26 acre (1,073 square metre) lot that looks out to the Golden Gate Bridge.

Open Homes Photography Open Homes Photography Open Homes Photography Open Homes Photography Open Homes Photography Open Homes Photography Open Homes Photography Open Homes Photography Open Homes Photography Open Homes Photography This building is in Cow Hollow, less than a block from the Presidio, an expansive city park with views of the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco Bay, as well as a golf course, public art installations and a theater.

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Featuring the sport's best athletes racing in identical F50 catamarans, SailGP sees national teams battling it out in short, intense races - flying at impressive speeds in excess of 60 mph.Following 12 months of dramatic racing - in some of the most iconic venues across the globe - the nine teams come together at the Mubadala SailGP Grand Final to decide the overall season champion, right here on San Francisco Bay.

California ended 2022 with a heavy rainfall event that brought flooding to San Francisco and surrounding areas, resulting in landslides, inundated roads and evacuation orders.The second highest daily rainfall total on record fell on New Year's Eve in downtown San Francisco (with records extending back to 1949), with 5.46in recorded.

The Freer Gallery of Art, part of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art, celebrates its 100th birthday in 2023.(Katherine Frey/The Washington Post)Comment Gift Article The Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art has multiple reasons to celebrate over the next few weeks.First, there's the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Freer Gallery of Art - which, with the adjoining Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, displays the Smithsonian's collections of Asian art.

Ten years ago, I wrote a book called The Golden Shore: California's Love Affair with the Sea.Back then, I suggested that California, with almost 40 million people and the world's fifth largest economy, was proof that you could grow a progressive society while protecting your coast and ocean.The San Francisco Chronicle wrote that the book just might make you feel optimistic about the future.

AI is making a big impact in all kinds of sectors at the moment.In the creative fields, most of the attention (and controversy) has revolved around AI text-to-image generators like DALL-E 2. But there are also tools being developed that work the other way around.Machine learning software developer Replicate has developed Blip-2, an AI model that can caption images and answer questions about them... sometimes.

Tyler James Hoare was a beloved artist who made his mark on San Francisco.Bob Colin Welcome to a new NPR series where we spotlight the people and things making headlines and the stories behind them.The Golden Gate Bridge may be the most iconic monument on the San Francisco Bay.But for decades, smaller monuments would pop up along the East Bay shoreline: whimsical sculptures of biplanes, like the Red Baron, perched on pier pilings.

The iconic lights that have run alongside the Bay Bridge for 10 years will go dark and come down Sunday, but the fate of the public art display that has illuminated the San Francisco Bay is still uncertain."It's going to leave a hole in the sky and punch a hole in the heart of San Francisco," said Ben Davis, founder of Illuminate, a nonprofit that helped launch the art project with New York-based artist Leo Villareal in 2013.

A gazillion gallons of stormwater have been rampaging down rivers into the sea.But that uncaptured bounty hasn't been "wasted.""Wasted water" being dumped in the ocean is an old cliché that resurfaces whenever there's a big storm in this weather-eccentric state - or during the inevitable dry periods when crops are thirsty and homeowners are told to shut off their lawn sprinklers.

It's the job posting that would catch the attention of any adventure seeker.A bed-and-breakfast, with a working lighthouse, has openings for two skilled innkeepers who can cook, clean and operate a ferry boat.The catch: The job is on a one-acre island in the San Francisco Bay, separated from the city by about about 10 miles of choppy ocean.

This year a good number of my columns have focused more on the audio part of audiobooks  narrators, production quality, bingeability  than on the book part.But sometimes a title is good not just because of its auditory pleasures, but also as a narrative; and going for a walk and listening can be just as rewarding a process as curling up and reading.

Bay Area hospitals are dealing with what is shaping up to be the third largest wave of COVID positive patients yet as local public health officials once again urge residents to take extra precautions to stop the rapidly spreading virus.The number of COVID patients in Bay Area hospitals reached 940 on Wednesday, just a few beds shy of the August 2021 peak when the delta variant of the virus was surging.

Steph Chambers/Getty Images The Giants agreed to a deal with a local boy Tuesday night, giving him millions to patrol the Oracle Park outfield.He may not be the one Giants fans dreamed of, but take it from me: They should be over the moon about getting Mitch Haniger.As a lifelong Seattle Mariners fan, it is more bitter than sweet to see my favorite active MLB player sail away from Puget Sound and into the San Francisco Bay.

The decision to approve the use of the remote-controlled equipment followed a two-hour emotionally charged debate.Officials in San Francisco have voted to give the city's police the power to use potentially lethal, remote-controlled robots in emergency situations.The 8-3 vote in favour of the move followed an emotionally charged two-hour debate and came despite strong objections from civil liberties and other police oversight groups in the city on the west coast of the United States.

With the end of 2022 rapidly approaching, many of us are already planning our Thanksgiving menus and thinking about which dishes we'll bring to the family Christmas party.Unfortunately, it's possible that this season might force us to forgo some of our tried-and-true favorites, thanks to a slew of food shortages that are impacting everything from the price of turkeys to the availability of butter.

A new mug shot taken Friday shows Scott Peterson, 50, with salt-and-pepper stubble compared to his previous clean-shaven look.California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation via AP SACRAMENTO, Calif.Scott Peterson has been moved off death row more than two years after the California Supreme Court overturned his death sentence for killing his pregnant wife two decades ago, corrections officials said Monday.

The map was scribed in Mexico on October 30, 1770, and is widely the first map to depict the San Francisco Bay.A map, which was scribed in Mexico on October 30, 1770, and is considered among historians to be the first map showing the San Francisco Bay, will be auctioned off to the highest bidder on October 25.