{"id":446709,"date":"2026-08-29T01:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T01:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/446709\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T01:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T01:20:08","slug":"day-around-the-bay-sf-opera-orchestra-demands-fair-contract-threatens-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/446709\/","title":{"rendered":"Day Around the Bay: SF Opera Orchestra Demands &#8216;Fair&#8217; Contract, Threatens Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    Local:With opening night for the San Francisco Opera&#8217;s 104th season just two weeks away, the Opera&#8217;s orchestra musicians are threatening to go on strike. In a new statement, the orchestra&#8217;s members called for a &#8220;fair contract&#8221; to be reached following the expiration of their previous deal on July 31. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/entertainment\/classical\/article\/san-francisco-opera-strike-22406186.php?ref=sfist.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicle<\/a>]The Oakland Police Department suspects employee fraud after a routine internal audit allegedly revealed an employee had stolen $38,000 by falsifying time sheets, prompting further investigations. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kron4.com\/news\/oakland-police-internal-audit-uncovers-alleged-38k-employee-fraud\/?ref=sfist.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KRON4<\/a>]Norway&#8217;s new king, Haakon VIII,  is a former UC Berkeley student who fell in love with surfing and local music during his time in California. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/entertainment\/article\/norway-king-haakon-uc-berkeley-22408348.php?ref=sfist.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicle<\/a>]National:The Trump administration is considering a highly unorthodox land swap that would send a piece of Yosemite National Park to Las Vegas developer Kingsbarn Realty Capital. In response to media inquiries, a spokesperson for the Interior Department stated that \u201cno political pressure to reach a predetermined outcome\u201d had transpired in the deal. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/28\/yosemite-national-park-private-developer?ref=sfist.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian<\/a>]Following news of Dolly Parton&#8217;s death <a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/2026\/08\/25\/ugh-no-dolly-parton-has-died-at-age-80\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">earlier this week<\/a>, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee and Nashville International Airport have announced that the airport will be renamed in honor of the late country star, actress, and philanthropist. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/08\/27\/travel\/dolly-parton-nashville-airport.html?ref=sfist.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a>]Motown legend Gladys Knight announced on Friday that she plans to take a step back from performing after clips from recent shows in which the singer appeared to be disoriented went viral on social media. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kron4.com\/news\/national\/gladys-knight-to-wind-down-live-performances\/?ref=sfist.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KRON4<\/a>]Video:As part of the first-ever, three day Pok\u00e9monXP fan convention <a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/2026\/08\/27\/day-around-the-bay-berkeley-high-student-robbed-by-other-teens-near-campus\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">currently taking over<\/a> Moscone Center, the San Francisco Giants held a Pok\u00e9mon-themed game on Thursday night that naturally included an elaborate drone show.<\/p>\n<p>Top image: Facade of the War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, California, January 22, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>SF<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-preferred-source-kicker\">Keep SFist in your news mix<\/p>\n<p>                        Make SFist a preferred source<\/p>\n<p>Choose SFist to see more of our local reporting in Google\u2019s Top Stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local:With opening night for the San Francisco Opera&#8217;s 104th season just two weeks away, the Opera&#8217;s orchestra musicians&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-446709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}