Pins matching date:2026-06-02

A 20-course, $295 tasting menu staged as theatre: 26 diners at a time move from a graffiti lounge to a projection-mapped communal room, past the open kitchen and into a chandeliered dining room, two or three seatings a night.

In the 2 June 2026 primary Mayor Karen Bass led with 34.3% and Councilmember Nithya Raman overtook Spencer Pratt for second as late ballots were counted, setting up a November runoff between two Democrats.

Proposition D, a labor-backed rise in San Francisco's tax on companies whose top executives earn 100 times their workers, projected at about $300 million a year, failed 52.8% to 47.2%; its business-backed rival, Measure C, lost 66% to 34%.

1633 Valencia is a six-story, 145-home permanent supportive housing building for adults 55+ exiting homelessness on a former Sears parking lot in San Francisco's Mission District, built in 19 months for $84.6 million (about $525,000 a unit excluding acquisition and reserves). Mayor Lurie's office announced the grand opening on June 2, 2026; Mercy Housing's own report followed on July 15.

Green Data Centers proposed a 2,000 MW data center on about 10,000 acres of New Mexico Tech land near Socorro, New Mexico, paired with a 10 GW solar farm; the university declined to proceed on 2 June 2026 and Socorro County adopted a one-year moratorium on 9 June 2026. No cost was published.

Wilmar will pool its Nigerian and Beninese plantations, edible-oil and food businesses with TGI Group's brands and distribution in a Singapore-held 50:50 venture targeting a US$12 billion market.

City voters turned down an $8,000-a-year tax on second homes left vacant more than half the year, 53.2% to 46.8%, the latest in a run of failed San Diego tax measures.

Appointed District 4 Supervisor Alan Wong won the special election to finish Joel Engardio's term, beating Natalie Gee 64.4% to 35.6% in the fourth round of ranked-choice voting.

On 2 June 2026 Texas Instruments said Julie Knecht, its chief accounting officer, would become chief financial officer on 1 August 2026, succeeding Rafael Lizardi, who retires after 25 years with the company.

Alibaba releases Qwen3.7-Plus, a proprietary multimodal agent model that reads images and video, operates screens and scores 79.0 on ScreenSpot Pro, priced at about $0.40 per 1M input tokens.

The first A350-1000ULR, MSN707 F-WULR, flew from Toulouse on 2 June 2026 for 3 hours 43 minutes, starting a two-month campaign to certify the rear centre tank that lets Qantas plan 22-hour Project Sunrise flights.

BMW M reveals the M2 with M xDrive on 3 June 2026: a 480 hp straight-six coupe with all-wheel drive, 0-100 km/h in 3.7 seconds and a UK price from GBP 74,255.