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Yahoo
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Saweetie Announces New Track ‘Boffum' Ahead of Australian Tour
Saweetie is about to make her long-awaited debut on Australian stages, with a new single set to drop just days before the ICY Queen brings her chart-topping hits down under. The rapper announced this week that 'Boffum' will arrive on July 18, coinciding with her first-ever Australian headline run, which kicks off in Perth on July 30. She also shared a teaser of the track via Instagram on Friday (July 11). More from Billboard Mariah Carey Drops Surprise 'Type Dangerous' Remix EP Featuring Collabs With Big Sean, DJ Snake, Method Man & More Ozzy Osbourne Announces 'Last Rites' Memoir About Health Struggles, Prep For Final Sabbath Show: 'I'm Not Ready to Go Anywhere' Ahead of Manchester Homecoming Shows Oasis Fill Sky With Drones, Issue Extreme Heat Warning: 'Wear a (Bucket) Hat' The Australian tour marks another major career milestone for the Bay Area-born artist, who has spent the past year performing on some of the world's biggest stages. Saweetie headlined high-profile festivals across the U.S., including Rolling Loud and Coachella, where she delivered a set packed with fan favorites and surprise collaborations. Saweetie's popularity in Australia has been proven over the years, with singles such as 2020's 'Tap In' and 2021's 'Best Friend' both hitting the top 40, while 2019's 'My Type' reached the top ten of the Australian Hitseekers chart. In late 2024, she also dropped 'NANi,' which peaked on Billboard's Rhythmic Airplay. Joining Saweetie on the road is rising Australian star Amarni, who was tapped as the official support act for the tour. Hailing from Melbourne, Amarni has been gaining attention with her unapologetic sound and genre-blurring tracks. Her latest single 'Hu$tler' arrived earlier this month and has already made waves on streaming platforms, showcasing the bold energy she'll bring to the stage as she opens for Saweetie's four Australian dates. The tour, presented by Primuse Entertainment and Capital Touring, includes stops at Perth's Metro City, Brisbane's Eatons Hill Hotel, Melbourne's The Timber Yard and Sydney's Roundhouse. Limited tickets remain via Saweetie's Australian run comes as she continues working on her long-anticipated debut album, which is expected to drop later this year. 'Yeah, it's coming this year,' she told Billboard in February. 'I feel like it will really encompass who I've grown into over these past couple of years. Lots of stories to tell.' Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
Business Journals
29-05-2025
- Business
- Business Journals
Daily Digest: 1,000 S.F. City Hall layoffs reported, Nvidia is market cap king again
Happy Thursday, Bay Area. In national news, a federal court in New York on Wednesday ruled to block President Trump from imposing widespread tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law. However, Trump might still be able to temporarily launch import taxes of 15% for 150 days on nations with which the U.S. runs a large trade deficit, Bloomberg reports, as the ruling stipulates that a president has such authority. In aviation, United Airlines Holdings Inc. and JetBlue Airways Corp. agreed to a new partnership this week that will allow travelers to use loyalty points and book flights across the two carriers. Through the partnership, United will also be gaining access to New York's JFK airport, Boston and the Caribbean. In retail news, the Bay Area-born chain Mountain Mike's Pizza is entering the Washington, D.C., market amid a franchise-driven expansion, having struck a three-unit deal. Friends and co-owners Chris Britt and Ed St. Geme, who did their undergrad work at Stanford University in Palo Alto, opened the original parlor next to the campus in 1978. Also in food chains, Morgan Hill gets its first Chick-fil-A location on Thursday as the Atlanta-based chain is set to open its doors at 18599 Sutter Blvd., the 29th location in the Bay Area. And finally on Wall Street, Nvidia Corp. shares (Nasdaq: NVDA) jumped about 4% after the company posted positive earnings. The Santa Clara designer and manufacturer of graphics processing units, or GPUs, has seen its stock rise about 30% over the past month, helping it take back the crown of as the world's most valuable company by overtaking Microsoft Corp. Apple Inc. is third followed by Inc. and Google parent company Alphabet Inc. Here's the rest of the day's money matters in both government and the private sector. GET TO KNOW YOUR CITY Find Local Events Near You Connect with a community of local professionals. Explore All Events New Oakland financial forecast highlights expected two-year shortfall A newly released Oakland budget report — a five-year financial forecast typically put out ahead of the city's biannual budget cycle — now predicts the city's annual deficits through 2030 will range from $115 million to $126 million in the general purpose fund, the East Bay Times reports. 'Regardless of this forecast or what actually happens in the economy, the city remains underfunded with regard to meeting (pension) obligations for current and past city employees to the tune of more than $1.2 billion,' according to the city report, which was prepared by Oakland's budget officials. In positive news, though, the new forecast places the expected two-year shortfall at $245 million as opposed to the previous estimate of $265 million. expand Barbara Lee was recently sworn in as Oakland's new mayor. Christie Hemm Klok/ San Francisco's budget deficit comes with layoffs San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie intends to eliminate roughly 1,000 jobs to close the city's $782 million gap, the SF Standard reports, noting that most of those positions are currently vacant or occupied by employees slated for retirement. But the cuts could also include eliminating positions in up to 17 departments. The details of the mayor's budget were shared in a Wednesday meeting between the mayor's staff and communications directors for city departments, according to the report. expand San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie Adam Pardee S.F. hotel room rates expected to increase in 2025 In hotel news, a new CBRE report anticipates that San Francisco's hotel room rates are expected to hit 8.4% this year, outpacing the expected national average of 1.3%. Sacramento's predicted growth rate came in second among Northern California markets at 4.5%, followed by San Jose at 4.4%, Oakland at 2.9% and Napa wine country at 2.2%. S.F. telehealth company revises IPO terms San Francisco virtual health care provider Omada Health on Thursday set IPO terms to 7.9 million shares at $18-$20. It would have a $1.2 billion fully diluted market value, were it to price in the middle, and plans to list on the Nasdaq under the symbol "OMDA." Omada raised around $450 million in VC funding from Revelation Partners, USVP, a16z, Cigna Ventures, aMoon and NVP. It is expected to begin trading the week of June 9. Sign up for the Business Times' free morning and afternoon daily newsletters to receive the latest business news driving change in San Francisco. Download the free San Francisco Business Times app for breaking news alerts on your phone. Funding Watch Chalk, a San Francisco data platform for AI, raised $50 million in Series A funding. Felicis led, joined by Triatomic Capital and insiders General Catalyst, Unusual Ventures and Xfund. M&A Watch Santa Clara's AMD (Nasdaq: AMD) acquired Enosemi, a Sacramento-based maker of photonics subsystems whose backers included Convergent Ventures and Pack Ventures. People on the Move Billionaire Elon Musk's more than 114-day long tenure as a DOGE special government employee officially ended on Wednesday. The Tesla CEO departed a day after he called a Republican bill to fund Trump's agenda "disappointing." Roblox Corp. has hired Sebastian Barrios to lead its engineering for user, discovery, ads and brands and economy. He previously served as CTO at Cabify, Spain's first unicorn, and as SVP of Technology at Mercado Libre, Latin America's most valuable public company. San Jose-based PayPal Ventures named Ian Cox Moya as managing partner, succeeding James Loftus, who joined Velocity Global as CFO, Axios reports. Layoff Watch The Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., or HPE, earlier this month laid off 61 employees at 6280 America Center Dr. in San Jose. Advanced Pressure Technology is laying off 89 employees at 687 Technology Way in Napa, effective July 26. Real Estate Watch Known as the Williams-Sonoma House, the longtime home of the late W. Howard Lester, former president and CEO of Williams-Sonoma, is now on the market for $9.25 million. The three-bedroom home sits on nearly nine acres adjacent to Jack London State Park in the Sonoma County town of Glen Ellen. It's listed by Daniel Casabonne and Gina Clyde with Sotheby's International Realty – Wine Country - Sonoma Brokerage. expand A peek inside 1500 Morningside Mtn. Rd. in Glen Ellen. Zillow Media Experts for Sotheby's International Realty Final thought … Thinking about selling your old Bay Area home? It could cost you. A lot, actually. As the spring home selling season moves into its final stretch of 2025, a perfect storm of new regulations and norms have made it more expensive than ever to get that home ready for market. Here are five reasons why. DOWNLOAD the free SFBT app for breaking news alerts on your phone.
San Francisco Chronicle
03-05-2025
- Politics
- San Francisco Chronicle
S.F. Police Commission sheds another police critic as potential successors line up
Jesus Yáñez only days ago finished his term on the powerful San Francisco Police Commission, and already a host of potential successors are lining up for his job. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has fielded five applications to the commission, including from a Tenderloin community advocate and several prominent local attorneys. The commission, which sets police policy and imposes discipline against officers, is one of the most influential bodies at City Hall. The seven-member panel was until recently controlled by Yáñez and other progressive-aligned members who emphasized the commission's role as an independent check on the police department. But as the pandemic gave way to concerns about crime and street conditions, the commission became a lightning rod for critics who accused it of putting reform over public safety. Voters curtailed its power last March, approving a measure that requires more time and public input for changes to police policy. Then this year, Mayor Daniel Lurie ousted its most prominent adversarial voice, attorney Max Carter-Oberstone, a mayoral appointee who broke off from Mayor London Breed. The board's upcoming decision on Yáñez's successor, which has yet to be scheduled, could give Lurie and his police-friendly allies another reliable vote on the commission. The body is already stacked in favor of the mayor's office, which gets to appoint four of its members. Lurie himself has appointed two members, Mattie Scott and Wilson Leung. Adding another moderate-aligned voice to the commission would only shore up their majority. The balance of power on the commission is especially consequential at a time when the city has a new mayor and its longest serving police chief in decades, Bill Scott. If Scott departs for any reason, the commission will play a key role in choosing his successor. The candidates who applied as of Thursday included Pratibha Tekkey, a community organizer with the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, and Hasib Emran, a California deputy state controller and longtime aide to State Controller Malia Cohen, who previously led the police commission. In her application, Tekkey said she would build trust between police and the community, while Emran, a Bay Area-born son of Afghan refugees, told the Chronicle he wanted to be a 'community ambassador' for the commission. The other applicants so far were Meredith Osborn, a white-collar defense attorney and former chief trial deputy for the city attorney's office, Neil Hallinan, a criminal defense attorney, and Albert Mayer, an artificial intelligence consultant and former senior trial counsel with the U.S. Department of Justice. Osborn wrote in her application that she would be an ally for immigrants and LGBTQ+ people as well as a representative for working families, while Hallinan noted that he had represented many people arrested by San Francisco police, sometimes wrongfully. 'I understand the proper balance between acknowledging the difficulty of being an effective and honorable police officer versus the need to hold police to the high standard,' Hallinan wrote. Mayer told the Chronicle he had successfully prosecuted opioid companies and wanted to help the police department fight to end the 'open-air drug markets and theft rings.' At least one other potential candidate is also considering applying: Marjan Philhour, who was endorsed by the police union in her unsuccessful race for District 1 supervisor last year. 'I have been approached by numerous neighborhood, small business and public safety leaders urging me to apply,' Philhour said. Another rumored candidate, community advocate Betty Louie, said she applied for the role, but withdrew her name from consideration after learning about the other applicants. Yáñez, a juvenile justice advocate and commissioner since early 2022, held one of three seats on the panel appointed by the Board of Supervisors. The other two are currently filled by Cindy Elias and Kevin Benedicto. He said Thursday that he decided not to seek reappointment because he became disillusioned with the commission and what he saw as its lack of urgency for reform and embrace of 'copaganda.' 'I was left being one of the few voices that was not willing to bite my tongue,' Yáñez said. Yáñez said he had struggled to get the commission to hold hearings on issues he viewed as important, including on a police pursuit that led to a stolen vehicle crashing into a parklet in the Mission and injuring multiple people in February. Yáñez was also upset that the San Francisco Police Officers Association had publicly accused him and his wife, a deputy public defender, of obstructing a police investigation — a claim he denied. 'The way that people perceive me has completely shifted,' Yáñez said. 'Why am I going to continue to expose myself to this?' It's unclear that Yáñez would have had the support to remain on the commission, even if he wanted to. To oust Carter-Oberstone, Lurie secured a 9-2 vote at the Board of Supervisors. Yáñez would have had to garner the support of the board to retain his seat. Any applicant for the commission has to appear first before the board's rules committee. Rafael Mandelman, president of the board and a member of the rules committee, said he probably wouldn't have supported Yáñez had he chosen to reapply. Mandelman said it was time for a 'new day' at the police commission and that he wanted the next appointee to signal the board's 'commitment to safety.' "There's an abundance of excellent candidates for this spot,' Mandelman said. 'It's going to be a hard choice to make.' Supervisor Stephen Sherill, another rules committee member, also emphasized the need for candidates focused on public safety. 'Public safety is my number one priority and I want police commissioners who share that priority,' Sherill said. Supervisor Shamann Walton gets to decide when to schedule a hearing to vote on the applicants as chair of the rules committee. He has not set a date yet and did not respond to a request for comment.
