Day Around the Bay: ‘The Nut’ Becomes Walnut Creek’s Unofficial Nickname
Aug 20, 2026
Local:Tenderloin gallery owner Jonathan Carver Moore is facing allegations of chronic non-payment and withholding artworks from artists, collectors, and dealers. Nine artists and gallery representatives say they are owed thousands of dollars or are still waiting for their work to be returned. [ArtNe
ws]The body of a woman pulled from the Bay near the Ferry Building Sunday was identified as 69-year-old Jacklyn Trang Le, a Cathedral Hill resident. [Chronicle]The people of Walnut Creek have decided on “The Nut” for the town’s nickname, and merch created by a local newsletter helped seal the deal. [KRON4]National:The USS Abraham Lincoln, which has been deployed in the Middle East since last November, is heading back to the US. Families sounded the alarm last week about the poor conditions onboard the ship, and several soldiers had tried to jump overboard. [CBS News]Two members of a cycling team in Tennessee were killed Wednesday and several others were seriously injured when they were struck by a driver on a mountain highway, and the driver was charged with vehicular homicide. [New York Times]State Representative Angie Nixon, a progressive democratic socialist, won Florida’s Democratic Senate nomination Tuesday in a stunning upset over establishment-backed Alex Vindman despite raising less than one-sixteenth as much money. [New York Times]Video:Someone started an Instagram account just to document a strange phenomenon — two different men were spotted walking in loops in front of OpenAI and Salesforce at separate times. Marketing campaign, perhaps?
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